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German Studies

…Munich or “Silicon Saxony” in Dresden, or finance in Zurich and Frankfurt, to cultural diversity in Berlin as a major center for design and fashion, German opens new doors in…

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2013 Awards for Excellence

Award for Excellence in Foreign Languages: Jelimo Maswan (German, French, and Spanish). Distinguished Student Award: Emmanuel Carrodeguas (Chinese) Distinguished Student Award: Caroline Enloe (Spanish) Read more about Jelimo’s trip to…

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2022 Student Awards for Excellence

The Student Award for Excellence recipients were recognized at the Global Languages Spring Fest on April 28. Left to right are students Luz Grisales, Linh Nguhen, and Brian Hoh (with…

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2023 German Studies Excellence Award

Speakers included Per Urlaub, Global Languages Director; Dagmar Jaeger, Senior Lecturer in German; Kurt Fendt, Senior Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies; Justin Leahey, MIT-Germany; and special guests Sonja Kreibich, Consul General…

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Mixed Reality and Serendipitous Language Learning

Project dates: 2017-2018 Project Lead: Takako Aikawa

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2006 German Studies Excellence Award

First Prize Taylor Barton 2006, EECS, Arlington, MA; Zuzana Trnovcova 2009, EECS, Bratislava, Slovakia Second Prize Andrew Guerra 2006, Foreign Languages and Literature, Bremerton, WA; Alan Skaggs G, mechanical engineering,…

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2015 de Courtivron Writing Prize

First Prize Vivian Tran was awarded first prize for “In the Ticks and Talks,” a powerful memoir that centers around the changing relationship between a Chinese grandmother and her Chinese-American…

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2021 Miyagawa Prize

Prize Winners Mojolaoluwa Oke, ’22, Mechanical Engineering Silvia Cho, ’21, Biology Miyagawa Japanese Prize is awarded annually to students who demonstrate excellence in Global Languages Japanese classes….

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2021 German Studies Excellence Award

First Prize Stefan Damchevski, ’‘23, Chemical Engineering Major; for his paper, “Übergang von der Engelwelt in die reale Welt durch Farbe in Himmel über Berlin von Wim Wenders” from 21G.420…

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International Conference on Internet Chinese Education to meet at MIT

…MIT on June 19-21. The theme of the conference is “The Reflection of Chinese Language Teaching and Technology.” The goal is to open up new horizons for Chinese language e-learning….

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2017 de Courtivron Writing Prize

First Prize Mira Partha has been awarded First-Place Prize for “Of Swarams and Arpeggios,” a meditation where song serves as a metaphor for a hybrid cultural identity in which the…

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2016 de Courtivron Writing Prize

First Prize Pratyusha Kalluri was awarded First Prize for “Projection,” a haunting futuristic story that raises troubling questions about conformity, freedom, and surveillance—all keenly relevant today. Pratyusha (Priya) Kalluri is…

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