Cynthia Nazarian, associate professor in the department of French and Italian, honored with University Teaching Award
Languages
New Language Resource Center at NU: Veteran language faculty Elena Lanza and Noriko Taira Yasohama appointed co-directors of Weinberg College-housed center designed to propel language learning at Northwestern
The soon-to-open Language Resource Center (LRC) at Northwestern University has its leaders and it’s a pair of seasoned language faculty Elena Lanza, associate professor of instruction in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Noriko Taira Yasohama, professor of instruction...
10 years and counting: Department of Asian Languages and Cultures celebrates its 10th Anniversary
Over the last decade, Laura Brueck has been in perpetual motion. Since arriving at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in 2013 as an associate professor of South Asian literature and culture, Brueck has played an instrumental role in...
Two faculty receive National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship grants
Two faculty in Weinberg College have been awarded Fellowship grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Jennifer Lackey and Dassia Posner. The awards are part of $28.1 million in grants provided by the NEH for 204 humanities projects across...
Students develop communicative skills and cultural competence through the new eTandem language learning exchange
Shannon Millikin, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has created an eTandem language learning exchange between Northwestern students taking Intermediate Spanish 121, and students and English learners at universities abroad. Millikin coordinates and teaches Spanish 121,...