03/04/2019 - The Illinois Club has recognized the contributions of two students majoring in Spanish, Emily Boehm (BAT) and Mathew Schultz. Emily was...
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02/27/2019 - Prof. Anna María Escobar has been awarded the very competitive campus award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring. This award is given to a selected number of university...
02/02/2019 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded an IPRH Faculty Fellowship for 2019-20 for his project “Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight"
01/10/2019 - Melissa Bowles’ proposal “The Bilingual Advantage Starts at Home: Raising Awareness of the Benefits of Home Language Maintenance Among Illinois Teachers and Families” has been one of the 14 proposals...
12/16/2018 - Spanish in the Community is a course at the University that integrates the Spanish speaking skills of students and connects them with service projects in the Champaign-Urbana community. The...
12/07/2018 - Professor William Curtis Blaylock earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, where he studied with Yakov Malkiel, a legendary figure in the field of Romance Philology....
12/03/2018 - We are very proud to announce that our alumnus, Dr....
10/18/2018 - Prof. L. Elena Delgado’s work on Spanish nationalism, the Catalan secessionist movement, the links between Spain and the US and the impact of the feminist movement on current politics has been...
09/11/2018 - 1st prize: Juan Suárez Ontaneda ( Street musicians singing 'El Amor amor,' perhaps the oldest Vallenato song available through written records, during the inauguration of the 2018 Festival de Leyenda...
08/27/2018 - Ann Abbott, Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was selected to give the convocation speech at the New Student Convocation for all incoming freshmen in the ...
08/14/2018 - Tasha Robles has recently been awarded the “University Advisor of the Year” award by the Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha. According to the national chapter's website, the University...
07/06/2018 - Jessica Romero, major in Spanish and Portuguese (B.A. 2018), has been the recipient of the prestigious and very competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant which is devoted to the study/research...
06/27/2018 - Prof. Melissa Bowles has been named as a Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar beginning in AY 2018-2019 and continuing through 2022-2023. These awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty...
06/02/2018 - Prof. L. Elena Delgado has been selected as a University Scholar for 2018-2019. The University Scholars Program honors and rewards the most outstanding faculty at the University of...
05/16/2018 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded the 2018 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. As Provost Cangellaris has indicated in the official letter, the award goes to "particularly...
