Kazue Harada, Ph.D. candidate in Japanese Language and Literature, has been chosen as one of the winners of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2012-2013 for her superb TA performance in the Japanese language classes.
Professor Newhard has been promoted to Associate Professor of Japanese with tenure. Ms. Shino Hayashi has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Japanese.
EALC has awarded the following students for their excellence in language studies:
Sam Taffer: the Ansehl Prize for Excellence in Chinese (Level 4 Chinese) Sichong Han: the Yukiko Takahashi Prize for Excellence in Japanese (Level 1 Japanese) Carolyn Carpenter: the Prize for Excellence in Korean (Level 3 Korean) Greg Rippberger: the undergraduate Stanley Spector Memorial Award for the excellent paper entitled 'Mephistopheles and Humanist Temptation in Postwar Japanese Fiction' Wei Wang: the graduate Stanley Spector Memorial Award for her paper entitled "The Reconstruction of Female Voices of the High Tang: A Study of Women's Poetry in the Mingyuan shigui."
