MLCL student wins top prize at Japanese Speech Contest
MLCL student Lauren Makishima took first prize on April 22 at the Japanese Speech Contest sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan. Twelve finalists representing Harvard, MIT and other schools in the area competed in the advanced division. Lauren’s talk addressed Japanese homogeneous cultural identity and what it means to be Japanese from the outside. […]
Professor Margaret Litvin awarded a Peter Paul Development Professorship
Dr. Margaret Litvin, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, has been awarded a Peter Paul Development Professorship. The award was established in 2006 by a gift from Peter Paul to recognize the “very best young faculty” who are within the first two years of their appointments to Boston University. The competition is University-wide; recipients […]