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    Hittite class, taught by Professor Ryan Shosted, offers students with opportunities to engage with an extinct language using both modern technology and ancient methods of pressing cuneiform symbols into clay.

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    Professor Ryan Shosted and Computer Science Professor Neal Davis collaborated to make Deseret Alphabet texts and searchable transcriptions available online for people to study. The Deseret Alphabet was created by the Mormons and used briefly in the 19th century, mostly for official documents produced by the church. The effort was also supported by the collections from the Rare Book and Manuscript...
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    Illinois provides a professional working and learning environment, where faculty members, staff, and students are eager to assist others. The linguistics departments holds regular seminars, talks, and workshops providing tools and opportunities to be inspired by others’ research and perceive linguistics and research in a linguistically rich environment.
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  • Linguistics Department Year-End Celebration to honor graduating students and award winners
    The Linguistics Department will hold its annual year-end Awards and Graduation Celebration on May 4, 2022 from 4.00 to 6.00pm, in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Foreign Languages Building (FLB 1080). The Celebration will honor students in the department who have won prestigious awards, and who have...
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  • Congratulations to Amber Dunse for winning the Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award!
    Amber Dunse, Lecturer in ESL, wins the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement Award. Amber won this award based on her continuing important work in two areas: Her leadership as a trained liaison for the IT Accessibility Liaison (ITAL) Program, which led her to suggest and...
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  • Congratulations to Professor José Ignacio Hualde for receiving the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award!
    Dr. José Ignacio Hualde, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, were among the faculty members honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising by the Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. Professor Hualde has taught at Illinois for 33 years and has directed 26 doctoral...
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    Dr. Stephanie Landblom

    I'm mainly working on understanding what we do here at the Idaho Division of Career and Technical Education as there's a lot to learn! I'm helping a bit on our annual report that goes to the legislature and also with Perkins reporting which affects our funding at a federal level.
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