Dr. Julia Vaingurt, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literature, receives the Silver Circle Award. “Since 1966, the Silver Circle Award has been presented to some of UIC’s best teachers. Winners, who…
The School of LCSL is delighted to announce the call for papers for our annual In/Between Conference, which will be held on March 9-10 2017. The keynote speaker is Susan Goldin-Meadow, Professor of…
AATSEEL, the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, has named Michał Paweł Markowski the 2017 recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship. The award will be given at their annual…
Washington, DC— Keely Stauter-Halsted, Professor of History and Hejna Family Chair in Polish Studies, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her book The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and…
Professor and Head Michał Paweł Markowski‘s most recent collection of essays Kiwka [The Dribble], which premiered at the Conrad Festival this past October, has been shortlisted (with 4 other titles) for “Nagroda Gdynia” [The Gdynia…
Congratulations to Russian minor Sarah Lee for receiving this year’s Riddle Prize! The Riddle Prize, named for a former Chancellor and his wife, is awarded each year at Commencement to an outstanding graduating senior…
Russian major Jillian Pignataro received a Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award from the American Council of Teacher’s of Russian. The PSRSLA seeks to provide national recognition for outstanding junior and senior university-level students — those students who best…
In this year’s American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, there were 1,415 essays submitted from 79 universities, colleges, and institutions across the nation. Congratulations to UIC’s three award winners! Diana Helwink:…
Russian major John Stachelski won First Place in the “Art/Design/Humanities” category at UIC’s 2016 Student Research Forum. John heads to graduate school at Yale in Fall 2016. His research project is entitled “The Meek…
