Liling Huang wins first Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence
Liling Huang, Lecturer of Chinese, received the Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language administered by the National Chinese Language Teachers Association. Liling’s project “Self-paced Online Course of Chinese Pragmatics” was selected as the First Prize winner of the Cengage Award. The project is the first self-paced interactive online course […]
Recent Graduates Receive Fulbright Award for 2018
Anna Leah, 2018 Fulbright Recipient Anna Leah Eisner ’17 (Russian) Anna Leah Eisner ‘17, Russian Minor was awarded a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Kyrgyzstan. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, offering students grants to conduct research, study and teach abroad. The Fulbright competition at Boston University […]
Students Receive Award for Excellence in Hebrew Studies
Congratulations to Lexi Lang (CAS ’18) and Jesslyn Katherine (CAS ’18) for receiving the Hebrew awards presented by the Hebrew Language Program within WLL. Hebrew Awards are given to students who demonstrate commitment, involvement and achievements in their Hebrew Studies. This is the second year the Hebrew Program has held this ceremony. The event took […]
Graduating Senior and German Minor, Lynne Cherchia, Awarded Fulbright Teaching Assistantship
Graduating senior, German minor and two-time Dresden Study Abroad alumna, Lynne Cherchia, has received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Austria for the upcoming academic year. Lynne graduated this May with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology with a specialization in Molecular Biology and Genetics. For the U.S. Teaching Assistantship (USTA) program, Lynne will be a […]
2017 Translation Prize Winners Announced
Each year, the Boston University Translation Program and the World Languages & Literatures Department work together to present various prizes in Literary Translation: the Robert Fitzgerald Prize (for a translation into English from any language), the Shmuel Traum Prize (for poetry, fiction, or drama translated into English from French, German, or Hebrew) and the Chinese […]
Amber Navarre Receives the Gitner Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology
Amber Navarre has received a major award: the Gerald and Dean Gitner Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology. Congratulations to Amber. And congratulations to the Chinese program! The BU today piece has the details. It also mentions Liling Huang, Jungsoo Kim, and Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, and has great quotes from WLL students in Chinese. As […]
Amber Navarre Receives the Gitner Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology
Amber Navarre has received a major award: the Gerald and Dean Gitner Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology. Congratulations to Amber. And congratulations to the Chinese program! The BU today piece has the details. It also mentions Liling Huang, Jungsoo Kim, and Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, and has great quotes from WLL students in Chinese. As […]
WLL Student Chosen for Prestigious Boren Scholarship
Caroline Lord has been awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship to study in Jordan during the 2016-17 academic year. Caroline is currently an undergraduate student with a triple major in Asian Studies, Middle East and North Africa Studies, and History at BU, and a student worker for WLL. She will study Arabic at the Qasid […]
MLCL Students Place in National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
Heartiest congratulations to Victoria Cummings and Weronika Pasciak, who placed in the National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest! Weronika received the Bronze Medal and Victoria placed as an Honorable Mention. Both students competed in the category of students who speak a Slavic language other than Russian. The Russian program is proud of Vika and Weronika’s accomplishments in our […]
Margaret Litvin wins ALCS-Burkhardt Fellowship
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Margaret Litvin, has just won one of the most competitive annual fellowships, the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She will be spending the 2015-16 academic year at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study researching the history of Arab-Russian […]