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- Professor Carmen Roman has received a Pepsi Enhancement Grant to conduct a series
of workshops for Latino parents in Prince George's and Montgomery counties. The program is
entitled 'Educating people to Help Themselves'.
- President Mote has approved the award of tenure to Professor Juan Carlos
Quintero-Herencia of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The award of tenure
represents not only the recognition of outstanding past contributions to teaching and
research but also an expression of confidence in continued success in years to come.
- Federica Deigan was recently selected for the NEH Summer Seminar on Risorgimento at the
Academy of Rome.
- On February 25, 2003, S. Robert Ramsey was appointed the Overseas Director of The
Society of Korean Language and Literature.
- Dr. Gretchen Jones was an invited speaker at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill in November, 2002 lecturing on the fiction of modern Japanese author Mishima Yukio.
Her article "'Ladies' Comics': Japan's Not-So-Underground Market in Pornography for
Women" was recently published in the US-Japan Women's Journal (no.
22:2002).
- On February 1, 2003 Lindsay Yotsukura gave an invited talk in Japanese on the current
state of Japanese language education in the United States, and participated in a panel
discussion as part of The International Symposium on the Status of Japanese Language
Education in the Pacific Rim Region. The event was sponsored by the Kokuritsu Kokugo
Kenkyuujo (National Institute
for Japanese Language) in Tokyo. One representative from
each of six Pacific Rim countries (Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and the
United States was invited to take part, together with two discussants. Proceedings will be
published in June 2003 by Bonjinsha. Details (in Japanese) are available at
The National Institute for Japanese Language.
- Joseph Brami - Semester General Research Board Award
Topic:Marcel Proust's Discourse of Jewish Identity.
- Jacqueline Letzter - Summer General Research Board Award
Topic: La Montansier in Brussels: Theater as French Revolutionary Propaganda
- Brett Wells - Summer General Research Board Award
Topic: The French-Canadian Shield: Language Planning in Quebec.
Brett Wells - Marandon Fellowship for study in Quebec.
Awarded by the Société des Professeurs Français
et Francophones d'Amérique.
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