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SPPO Project Aims to Expand Access to Contributions of Latin American Women
On 2 November 2016, The Department of Spanish & Portuguese, along with students from the course "Gender and Power in Latin American Cultures" hosted Hagerty Hall's first "Edit-A-Thon!" You may ask: …
Bilingual Storybook Project Builds Strong Connections
A common thread connects Ohio State's Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Salem Elementary School - a desire to promote inclusion and literacy in both Spanish and English. The two were perfect…
Center for Latin American Studies Awarded Fulbright-Hays GPA Grant
The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program in the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $90,859 grant to the Center for Latin American Studies. The grant will be used to fund a…
Sol-Con aims to Celebrate Diversity in Comic Community
Diversity within the comic community will be celebrated this weekend at the second annual Sol-Con, The Brown and Black Comics Expo. The expo is held at Hale Hall in conjunction with the Billy Ireland…
Sol-Con brings Marginalized Comic Creators to Center of Attention
On Sept. 30, Marvel’s “Luke Cage” series, featuring an African-American lead character and a predominantly black cast, premiered on Netflix. The subsequent server crash on Oct. 1 was widely…
Congratulations to Ana Elena Puga: Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme Grant recipient!!
BE THE STREET Congratulations to Ana Elena Puga, who was awarded a significant Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme Grant grant for her “Be the Street” program funded to create devised theatre with…
Big Brothers Big Sisters presents at Spanish & Portuguese Club
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Central Ohio Vice President, Sharyn Rigsbee, presented to 20 Spanish & Portuguese Club members last night, in spite of the inclement Columbus weather, about Project Mentor…
Total Freedom in Art, Thought, and Interpretive Production: A Welcome
By Frederick Luis Aldama Back in the day we had to fight to be heard. To have our creative and intellectual work as Latinas and Latinos published. We’ve been pounding on doors ever since. Some of…
John Grinstead Wins $349,474 NSF Grant for Project Examining Development of Sentence Meaning in Spanish-speaking Children
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $349,474 grant to John Grinstead. Grinstead's project, “Determinants of Quantifier Interpretation in Typical and Atypical Child Language." is…