The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and its Lead with Languages campaign, with the support of Pearson LLC and Language Testing International, commissioned Ipsos Public Affairs to conduct a survey of 1,200 U.S. employers, and the resulting 2019 report, Making Languages Our Business: Addressing Foreign Language Demand Among U.S.

Four University of Georgia Portuguese Flagship students were awarded Boren Scholarships this spring, which will allow them to study abroad during the 2019-2020 academic year in Brazil.

Congratulations to Romance Languages linguistics professors Chad Howe, Pilar Chamorro, Timothy Gupton, and Margaret Renwick, who were awarded a National Science Foundation grant to fund the 49th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages!

Many congratulations to Hispanic Linguistics doctoral candidate Allie Lauchnor, who has been awarded a Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to Jorge García Granados, who has been awarded a Summer Research Travel Grant to perform research on his dissertation on Quechua theater in Peru.

Professor Elizabeth Wright is the recipient of this year's Albert Christ-Janer Award, recognizing “an outstanding body of nationally and internationally recognized scholarly or creative activities in the creative arts and humanities.”

Congratulations to the organizers of the 49th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) having been awarded a National Science Foundation grant in support of this prestigious conference, which will be hosted at UGA May 1-3, 2019. 

ROML M.A. graduate Fatoumata Seck interviews Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop in French newspaper Le Monde. Seck is currently Assistant Professor of French at the College of Staten Island.

Congratulations to UGA International Affairs and Spanish major student Ian Brusenhan, whose work on the economic, social, and political changes faced by the Mexican immigrant woman has been published in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. You can read "Mexican Women, Immigration, and the Consequent Transformation in Identity"in the current issue, 3.2, online by clicking here.  

Lilian Zhu, who graduated in May 2018 with a double major in Romance Languages and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is teaching English at a federal university in Brazil. https://news.uga.edu/student-fulbrights-18-19/