The 2022 Siegfried Mews Award was presented to CDG Doctoral Student and teaching fellow in German at UNC-CH Andrea Larson on April 25, 2022.

The 2022 Ria Stambaugh Award for Excellence in German was presented to Tracy Ridley ’23 at the Chancellor’s Award Ceremony, April 19, 2022.  Tracy is among the students featured in the article “Reopening the World,” in the spring 2022 issue … Read more

The 2022 Paul E. Debreczeny Prize in Slavic Languages and Literatures was presented to David Sarber Green at the Chancellor’s Award Ceremony, April 19, 2022.

Stephen Zaksewicz, doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, has received a Fulbright fellowship to study in Vienna in the 2022–23 academic year.

Miguel Angel Bahena Schott, Tekla Maisashvili, Micah McMinn, Quintin Gay, and Samuel Quesada represented the UNC-CH Russian Flagship Program at the National Language Flagship Program Hackathon (University of Maryland, College Park, April 8–9, 2022), where they worked with other Flagship … Read more

Professors Gabriel Trop, Adi Nester, Priscilla Layne, and Richard Langston were among the presenters.

Christoph Schmitz, doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies and teaching fellow at Duke University, participated in the Bass Digital Education Fellowship Showcase on April 14, 2022.  On April 22, Dr. April Henry (UNC-CH PhD, 2008) informed … Read more

Phi Beta Kappa held its spring induction ceremony on April 11, 2022.  There are several GSLL majors and minors among the inductees: Bill Cozens (German minor), Lilla Gabrielle Duffy (Russian culture minor), Jack Steven Kramer (Germanic & Slavic languages & … Read more

Prof. Priscilla Layne has been elected to the Faculty Grievance Committee.  Her term will run through 2025.  Prof. Ruth von Bernuth will serve as first alternate on Faculty Council (link to complete election results).

In August 2021, Dr. Agnieszka Majewska with her colleagues in Poland founded the Continents Association, whose goal is to promote Polish in the world and contribute to the methodology and didactics of teaching Polish as a foreign language. The outbreak … Read more