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The University of Arizona has been awarded a four-year federal grant to establish a Portuguese Flagship Program, with new resources available to advance students’ language skills and career opportunities, including a capstone year in Brazil.

Professor Ana Carvalho has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Mentoring Award by the Graduate College. This is an important award that recognizes her dedication to graduate teaching and mentoring. 

Finally, please join me in congratulating Professor Miquel Simonet; he has been awarded the Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award!

We are pleased to share that our alumna Jessie Bustamente is the COH nominee for the Arizona Alumni Association’s Young Professional Achievement Award. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a…

Santa Arias, Professor and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of 20 faculty and staff members chosen for the 2023-24 Academic Leadership Institute.   In its 14th year, the nine-month program is designed to strengthen current…

 Prof. Ana Cornide will be the Project Director of the federally sponsored Project “ADELANTE: Advancing Culturally Responsive Place-Based Educational Opportunities for Latinx Students in the Borderlands”  (2023-2028). With this Title V grant ($3,000…

Prof. Ana Carvalho is the co-project director of Bilingual Voices in the U.S.—Mexico Borderlands: Preserving, Expanding & Elaborating Sociolinguistic Collections which was just awarded a NEH Grant: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources…

Two Office of the Provost Mentoring Awards went to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese this year! Congratulations to Prof. Lillian Gorman and Doctoral Student Romy Cerón Canché.

Students in the Translation and Interpretation (T&I) Program provided interpretation services for the UA Arizona Model United Nations (AZMUN). A team of 13 T&I students participated in AZMUN’s 20th bilingual, binational, and bicultural…

On March 31st, 60 students and their teachers from Pueblo and Nogales HS took part in the department's inaugural Spanish-language tour. The program was an outreach effort aimed at first-generation Spanish-speaking students, with the goal of…

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is proud to share the announcement of the Spring 2023 College of Humanities Awards.   Distinguished Teaching Award Marcy Ziska Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese   Outstanding Graduate Assistant in…

A project to develop online training for police officers about the relationship between cultural memory, civil and human rights, and atrocity recovery and prevention has been awarded the Dorrance Dean’s Award for Research & Entrepreneurialism.…