Beth Kautz to conduct workshop on Integrating Sustainability Topics in the Foreign Language Classroom

Beth Kautz is traveling to Washington and Lee University in Virginia this week to conduct a faculty workshop on topic of "Content-based Instruction Beyond the Norm: Integrating Sustainability Topics in the Foreign Language Classroom." In addition to the faculty at Washington and Lee, the workshop will be shared via Adobe Connect with virtual attendees from other institutions that are part of the Associated Colleges of the South.

UMN Alumnus Geir Haarde named Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S.

UMN Alumnus Geir Haarde (M.A. in Economics, 1997) has been named Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S., to begin in January 2015.

Rebecca Aylesworth (M.A., 2014) now Academic Advisor in University Honors Program

Rebecca Aylesworth (M.A., 2014) has been hired as an Academic Advisor in the University Honors Program.

Ariel Schwarz (B.A., 2013) named Team Coordinator at World Economic Forum USA

Ariel Schwarz (B.A., 2013) has been hired as a Team Coordinator at the World Economic Forum USA in New York City.

Jennifer Hoyer (Ph.D., 2010) named director of new program in Jewish Studies at the University of Arkansas

Jennifer Hoyer (Ph.D., 2010) has helped found and is the director of a new
program in Jewish Studies at the University of Arkansas, where she is an associate professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures.
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Charlotte Melin editing volume on Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment for the MLA

Charlotte Melin is editing a volume in the Modern Language Association's series "Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures," under the title Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment: Theory, Curricula, Institutional Structures.

Jacqueline Listemaa (M.A., 2013) awarded SWEA Scholarship

Jacqueline Listemaa (M.A., 2013) was awarded the Swedish Women's Educational Association (SWEA) Minnesota Scholarship to support her Summer 2014 visit to Finland, where she visited the Åland Islands and Helsinki to gather and compile materials about the Swedish-speaking population in Finland.

These materials will be available for use in GSD's Swedish classes to introduce students to the Swedish-speaking population and culture in Finland.

Kalani Michell awarded Fulbright Grant

Kalani Michell has received a Fulbright Award in the Young American Journalist Program for 2014-15. She will spend the academic year in Berlin, Germany, completing archival research on expanded cinematic practices and contexts between the 1960s/70s and today. Her dissertation project addresses the question, "How do we relocate cinema in the digital age, when film is no longer simply to be found in movie theaters?"