Posts tagged with “Academics” (All posts)

  • Arabic Online Module Funding to Khazaal

    11 August 2008

    Natalie Khazaal, visiting professor of Arabic, is a subawardee of a U.S. Department of Education grant awarded to the UCLA International Institute. UCLA’s project “Listen and Learn: Teaching Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in America’s Middle and High Schools” is one of eleven projects receiving funds in 2008 from the USDE’s International Research and Studies Program. Khazaal will develop on-line Arabic Lebanese dialect modules.

  • Vrtis Awarded Fellowship for Book Research

    15 May 2008

    George Vrtis, professor of environmental and technological studies and history, was awarded a summer 2008 residential research fellowship ($1,500 travel grant) from the St. Louis Mercantile Library in St. Louis to support research on his book manuscript, “Refashioning the Mountains: An Environmental History of the Colorado Front Range, 1700-1900.”