Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) authored a chapter titled "The Present Perfect in Peruvian Spanish: An Analysis of Personal Experience Narratives among Migrant Generations in Lima" that appears in the book Aorists and Perfects edited by Marc Fryd and Pierre-Don Giancarli (Université de Poitiers 2017).

Margarita Jara Yupanqui (World Languages and Cultures) participated in an international symposium on Indo-American Languages in Contact, with Juan Carlos Godenzzi (University of Montreal), José Ramón Carriazo (UNED, Madrid), and Munia Cabal (Western Illinois University). The event "El español y las lenguas indoamericanas: interactividad y…

Giuseppe Natale (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, “’The Oil Route’ by Bernardo Bertolucci: An (Un)tech Documentary,” during a session titled "Italian Literature and Film" at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages earlier this month in Boston.

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) recently gave two invited presentations:  "Marsilio Ficino in Spain: The Spiritus," at the Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies of the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 18 "Las constituciones cervantinas, en la política del siglo XVII español y la del XVIII…

Jamie Wong, Jordan Myrda, and Edgar García (all World Languages and Cultures) each has been awarded a $500 Wing and Lilly Fong Scholarship for accomplishments in, and further study of, Chinese language. Administered by the UNLV Foundation, the grants were awarded through a committee chaired by professor Ying Bao of the department of…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures), was elected a "vocal" (spokesperson) to the Board of Directors of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanists) for the triennial period 2016-19.

Nikki Davis (Journalism and Media Studies) was named one of the most promising multicultural students of 2016 by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). She was one of 50 students selected for the prestigious program’s 20th anniversary class. She was one of only three students from the western United States. In recognition of her achievement,…

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) received the award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, Post-Secondary Level, 2014 from the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, whose members are from Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. There is one award per year at the post-secondary level.…

Lorena Pike (World Languages and Cultures) presented two workshops, "Spanish Translation of Business Contracts" and "Adoption & Foster Care: A Vocabulary Workshop," during the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators annual conference in Las Vegas in May. She also held duties at the conference as a member of the…

Bradley Davey (World Languages and Cultures) received one of just 20 nationwide Fulbright Teaching Awards to teach during 2014-15 in Frankfurt, Germany. The German major, who will receive his bachelor of arts degree this month, studied and taught from fall 2011 to fall 2012 in L?neburg, Germany. Now he will be assigned to a school where he will…

Deborah Arteaga (Foreign Languages) gave the keynote address, "On the Old French Subjunctive," at the annual Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, the premier international conference in romance linguistics, which this year took place at Southern Utah University in Cedar City. A presenter at this highly competitive conference since 1991…