News and Achievements

Congratulations to our recent recipients of research grants, professional recognition, teaching awards and other acheivements!

Research Grants

Professor Mariana Achugar has received a 2012-13 Berkman Faculty Development Grant to support her project, “A History Teacher’s Concept Development of Disciplinary Literacy.”

Professor Christopher Jones has received a 2012-13 Berkman Faculty Development Grant to support his work on a book project on Quebec popular music.

Professor Remi A. van Compernolle has received a 2012-13 Berkman Faculty Development Grant to support his work on concept-based pragmatics instruction for the second language classroom.

Ryan Miller, doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition, received a Language Learning Dissertation Grant for his study “Semantic Gap Filling: Understanding Reading Comprehension through Lexical Inferencing”.

Professor Mame Fatou-Niang has received a 2012-2013 Berkman Faculty Development Grant to support work on her project Venus in Black: The Role of Visual Representations in the Production of Blackness in France.

Professional Recognition

Professor Gabi Eichmanns has been elected president of the local chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German for the 2013-14 term.

Teaching Awards

Ryan Miller, doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition, is the 2012-2013 co-winner of the Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award.

Professor Yueming Yu is the recipient of Carnegie Mellon University’s 2012 William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching.

Professor Bonnie Youngs is the winner of the 2012 Elliot Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Educational Service in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Undergraduate Highlights

Three students of Professor Rémi Adam Van Compernolle have been selected to present their work at the 2013 conference of the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUGS) at the University of Toronto.