Writing Specialist - University of Arizona Writing Skills Improvement Program
English Language Specialist - U.S. Department of State
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Betsy Carter, a SLAT 3rd-year student, received the 2023 Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York. Betsy received the prize for her translation of an excerpt from Simone Sharbert's novel Rosa in Grau: Eine Heimsuchung. Please go here to read the wonderful comments from the prize jury about Betsy's talented translation.
The Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York was created in 2010 to identify outstanding young translators of German literature into English and assist them in establishing contact with the translation and publishing communities. The prize is open to college students and to all translators under the age of 35 who have not yet published, nor are under contract for, a book-length translation.
Congratulations on you prize, Betsy!
Congratulations to Dr. Wenhao Diao for receiving a STARTALK Grant for 2023-2025! This award totals $340,206, and will allow Dr. Diao to prepare and implement a summer Chinese immersion camp for students in grads 10 - 12, and the first two years of college, and to follow up with the students on their experience with the camp. The camp will take place during Summer 2024.
Dr. Diao is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and in the SLAT PhD Program, and she is Co-Director for the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS).
Come welcome the newest students who have been accepted to the SLAT PhD program
Join us on Zoom as we welcome our newest cohort of students who will be starting SLAT in Fall 2024! This event is open to all current SLAT students and faculty at the University of Arizona.
The time for this event is tentative, but will be confirmed about halfway through the Spring 2024 semester.
Learn about the minor programs and graduate certificate programs that SLAT offers
Did you know that SLAT has 3 doctoral minors and 2 certificate programs? Are you interested in finding out what the different minors and certificate programs are all about? Then come to our information session on Wednesday, March 27th, at 3:30 pm on Zoom! Some of the topics we’ll talk about are:
The Zoom link for the session is https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89222858174. Come with your questions, and we hope to see you there! For any questions about the information session, please email the SLAT Program Coordinator, Debbie Shon Buhler at dshon@arizona.edu.
Get a refresher on the IRB process at the University of Arizona
This event is for SLAT majors and SLAT minors at the University of Arizona.
Do you want to know more about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process at the University of Arizona? Do you need a refresher on what is needed for IRB applications and research/data collection with human subjects? Join us on Friday, March 1st, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm for Institutional Review Board (IRB) 101, given by an IRB Associate in the Human Subjects Protection Program (HSPP) Office at the University of Arizona.
Come learn about how to work legally and ethically with human participants in language studies. What training do you need? What guidelines and restrictions are there? Are some people more protected than others? How do you submit your project for review and approval?
All these questions will be answered, and more!