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June 9th, 2008 - Bilingual Students Needed: Part-time Jobs & Internships
The South Shore Educational Collaborative, a non-profit, organization, is offering part-time jobs and internships of special interest for bilingual students. For more information, click on the image below.
May 23rd, 2008 - Tara Skurtu and the Academy of American Poets!
Great news! Tara Skurtu, one of our majors, won an Honorable Mention for the 2008 Harold Taylor Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Two poems were selected; hers was the runner-up. The poem was selected by visiting Yale professor/poet Elizabeth Alexander. Tara received a certificate signed by Tree Swenson, the Executive Director of the Academy. Well done, Tara!
Tara has sent us the poem, so you can also enjoy it. Here it is:
May 23rd, 2008 - Employment Opportunity
Shannon Seaver-Rojas writes with the following information:
“For Spanish or Portuguese BILINGUAL employment opportunities please have your students check out the following site below: http://localcareers.com”
May 7th, 2008 - NSHP Boston Bilingual Professional Job Fair
Shannon Seaver-Rojas, Career and Employment Specialist for the College of Liberal Arts, writes with information about the NSHP Boston Bilingual Professional Job Fair (thanks!). We reproduce the information of the event below.
May 5th, 2008 - Patricia Anderson at ACMRS
Prof. Anderson presented her paper “The Female Law” at the Fourteenth Annual ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) last February.
April 30th, 2008 - SPAN 409 Students Get Involved in SSEC’s Pathwayss Program Following Visit
On Tuesday, April 2nd, Leyla Hellyar and Deborah Jean Parsons of the South Shore Educational Collaborative (SSEC) paid a visit to the Professor Mark Schafer’s Advanced Practice of Translation class (SPAN 409). Read the rest of this entry »
April 30th, 2008 - Caetano Serpa presenting at the University of the Azores
Caetano Serpa is giving a presentation at the University of the Azores on May 5. The conference is titled “A Mulher e o Trabalho” (Women and Work). During this conference a bilingual book on the same subject is going to be launched. The book was written by several invited authors and Caetano was one of them. He wrote the chapter on “Lingua como Expressão Sociocultural” (Language as Socio Cultural Expression). Congratulations, Caetano!
April 30th, 2008 - Introducing Samantha Reyes Leclair
Jessica Leclair graduated from our department six years ago. She has just finished Law School in Michigan and is moving back to Massachusetts with her husband and their daughter: Samantha Reyes Leclair, who is posing for WHASH in the picture below. Welcome back!
April 30th, 2008 - Sarah Cacicio to Spain
Sarah Cacicio has been awarded a teaching assistant grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. The grant is part of a program that, in words of the Ministry of Education and Science, “gives recent graduates an opportunity to visit Spain and become acquainted with the Spanish education system, teachers and students, while sharing with them aspects of your own language and culture.” Congratulations, Sarah!
April 18th, 2008 - Grants
Wanda Rivera-Rivera received a Joseph P Healey Grant (Spring 2008) associated with her research project: “Prison Narratives and Historical Legacies of Militant Women During the Popular Insurgency of 1965 Dominican Republic”.
Luis Alonso-Ovalle received an AY 2008-2009 Joseph P Healey Grant for his work on Spanish Indefinites.