Welcome to the Spring 2005 Edition of Polyglot

Announcements

Congratulations to the Department’s two teaching award winners! Ph.D. candidate Megumi Hamada has been selected as the 2005 winner of the H&SS Graduate Student Teaching Award. Anne Green, Teaching Professor of German, is the winner of the 2004-2005 Elliott Dunlap Smith Award “for distinguished teaching and educational service”. Congratulations to both Megumi and Anne.

Ph. D. recipient Hisae Fujiwara has accepted a position in the Program in Japanese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, beginning in Fall 2005. Japanese faculty member Yasumi Kuriya has accepted a position in the East Asian Studies Department at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Best wishes to both Hisae and Yasumi.