December 2016

Katherine Moore (French MA, beginning French PhD Fall 2016) has won the Graduate School's prestigious Legacy Fellowship for her entire upcoming course of study in the French doctoral program.

Sarah Fluker (MA Spanish) is the proud recipients of the 2016-2017 Leslie N. Wilson-Auzenne Graduate Assistantship for Minority Students from the Graduate School at Florida State University!

Emiliya Usmanova (MA Slavic) has received the 2016 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Professor Michael Leeser has been named an Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor for 2016.

On April 6, faculty, students and families came together to celebrate the 79th Annual Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics Honors Night.

Ravital Goldgof and Lily Shelton, 2015-16 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program assistants to Prof. Robert Romanchuk for his project on oral-formulaic structures in the Byzantine romantic epic Digenis Akritis and its Early Slavic translation, presented their own research on women's agency in the epic at the University of Pittsburgh's Undergraduate Research Symposium, "Europe: East and West" on April 1, 2016.

Audrey Wheeler, a freshman and Presidential Scholar, is one of the winners of the prestigious IDEA grant ($4,000) for summer undergraduate research.

Congratulations to all of those who participated at the Graduate Student Research Symposium last Friday at UF especially Amy Bustin and Gareth Bryan Wilkinson.

On April 20, 2016, Elena Vogel (PhD, Spanish), Active Member of Florida State University's Alpha Delta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, received the prestigious Gabriela Mistral Award.

Two FSU students pursuing minors in Portuguese have been awarded scholarships to attend the prestigious Middlebury College Portuguese School during Summer 2016.