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We are pleased to announce that Mélanie Hélin-Longayrou has successfully defended her master's thesis entitled “Des Accents d’Occitan: L’influence de l’occitan sur la prononciation des voyelles nasales en français méridional" in which she argues for Occitan influence in the distinctive Southern French pronunciation of nasal vowels. Félicitations, Mélanie! Diana Ranson Catherine Jones Gary Baker
Congratulations to Bethany Bateman on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation. Bethany’s dissertation, entitled “Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish,” examines past reference among monolingual and bilingual speakers of Andean Spanish in Cusco, Peru. The committee was impressed with the clarity of Bethany’s research and the important implications it presents for…
We are pleased to announce that Raymond Friedman has passed his written and oral exams for the MA degree in French (non-thesis with a specialization in linguistics). Félicitations, Raymond ! Diana Ranson Catherine Jones Gary Baker
We are pleased to announce that Connie Taylor has passed her written and oral exams for the MA degree in French (non-thesis with a specialization in linguistics). Félicitations, Connie ! Diana Ranson Catherine Jones Gary Baker
Congratulations to Spanish major Elizabeth Henderson for the appearance of her scholarly essay "El uso político de la religión durante la Inquisición: El control psicológico y el trauma" in the Fall 2021 issue of El Cid, the journal of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, published at The Citadel. Elizabeth is a Fall 2020 graduate with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish, Russian, and Asian Languages and…
Magdalena Matuskova, Lecturer in the Department of Romance languages, has been named a Service-Learning Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year. Matuskova is developing a new service-learning course on Spanish-English medical and health care interpreting, in which students will develop skills through taking part in interpreting in health education and clinical settings.
Kate Daley-Bailey, Romance Languages advisor, is featured in Columns this week.
Recent graduates Vineet Raman (Spanish) and Magali Lapu (French) are among 12 UGA students selected for extremely competitive Fulbright grants for the 2019-20 academic year. 
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. Employers, indicates an urgent and growing demand for language skills…
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.

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