The department is honored to congratulate the following recipients of major annual awards to faculty and graduate students:
Jerzy Kolodziej award (for excellence in teaching by a graduate student): Van Holthenrichs.
Mentor of the Year award (to a faculty member, selected by the graduate students): Nicoletta Rousseva.
We are also proud to congratulate the following for their achievements this past year:
Senior Lecturer Svitlana Melnyk was awarded a 2024 Trustees’ Teaching Award.
Professor Russell Valentino was also awarded a 2024 Trustees' Teaching Award.
Graduate student Dorotea Sotirovska was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for 2024-25.
PhD candidate Ani Abrahamyan has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
The department would like to congratulate the 2024 inductees to the Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society:
Cory Scott Ellsworth II
Isabel Hastings
Nathan Jeffrey Monberg
Lillian Cheyenne Rogers
Allison Wadsworth
And lastly, the department congratulates our 2023-24 graduates:
Graduating majors:
Caroline Covey
Mia Fahey
Ashley Morford
Margie Navarro
Will Pujol
Lillian Rogers
Nicholas Siambekos
Leathea Thomason
Graduating minors:
Erol Algan
Megan Coen
Cory Ellsworth
Alex Kukura
Christian Peasley
Julia SantAnna
Jill Stafford
Andrew Ward
Graduating with departmental honors:
Caroline Covey
Ashley Morford
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