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Warm congratulations to Professor of German Studies Ann Schmiesing, the 2016 recipient of the BFA Excellence in Leadership and Service Award. Prof. Schmiesing is a true pillar of our department as well as the one of those professors who carries with talent and inspiration most difficult and time-consuming service responsibilities...

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Jewish and Russian Studies Sasha Senderovich! He has been selected as one of eight faculty members and five staff members from the Boulder campus to participate in the University Leadership Development Institute's Excellence in Leadership Program for 2016-17. He was nominated by Dean Steven Leigh...

Congratulations to Julia Gerhard, a recipient of the CU 2015-2016 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award.

Congratulations to our BA/MA student in Russian, Courtney Silver for winning the Boren Scholarship for studying Russian, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, providing unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests.

Etherton's project focuses on expanding his expertise in media archaeology. Working with CU-Boulder's acclaimed Media Archaeology Lab and its founder, CU-Boulder Professor Lori Emerson, he will write a media-archaeological account of germanium- and silicon-based fuzz pedals, exploring their material, aesthetic, and ideological bases and effects. The practical component of his...

German Major Nicholas Zyzda was awarded a Summer Fellowship from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Nick receives the scholarship for a research project investigating the literary representation of madness in Georg Büchner’s 1836 novella Lenz . Drawing on psychological, medical, and literary discourses, Nick’s research approaches the systematic problem...

GSLL held its annual German career event on March 14 at the UMC Aspen Rooms. The event provided undergraduate students enrolled in German classes with an insight into some of the different career paths and opportunities available to them – both in Colorado and beyond - and a chance to...

On March 1 and 4, Russian faculty members Vicki Grove, Laura Olson Osterman, Mark Leiderman and Tom Roberts taught classes on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment at Fairview High School in Boulder. About 150 11th grade students in the school’s International Baccalaureate Literature Program participated in this event consisting of a...

On March 7, the Boulder Book Store hosted an evening celebrating the work of Belorussian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first in an ongoing series of events celebrating Nobel Laureates across national literature traditions at the bookstore. The event was organized and moderated...

The CU Russian Club hosted an event celebrating the traditional Russian holiday and spring festival of Maslenitsa on March 8 on the university campus. Analogous to the Western traditions of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, Maslenitsa combines features of Russian folk culture and Orthodox Christianity in heralding the arrival of...