Green German Project presentation voted "Best in Minnesota"

Congratulations to Adam Oberlin and Beth Kautz, whose presentation at the October 2011 MCTLC (Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Language and Culture) conference was voted the "Best of Minnesota." Beth and Adam introduced teaching materials from the "Green German Project", developed in summer 2011 and funded by a Title VI / CARLA grant. With this "Best of Minnesota" award, they have been invited to present at the Central States Conference in Milwaukee in March 2012.

Charlotte Melin awarded Institute on the Environment Mini Grant

Charlotte Melin has been awarded a mini grant through the Institute on the Environment's Fall 2011 Mini Grant competition to support cross-disciplinary collaboration between the language departments and colleagues in other units working to develop environmental education that will culminate in a showcase event, "Language / Environment / Media," to be held in April 2012.