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Three MES Faculty Members receive Texas Language Center Awards

Posted: Apr 3, 2012

Three MES Faculty members have received Professional Development Awards from the Texas Language Center.

The awards, ranging in value from $200-$1500, will be used to supplement instructor salaries, purchase materials, and/or subvent travel to professional conferences. Kristen Brustad, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies—“Intensive Persian Auto-correct Exercises” Laila Familiar, Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies—“Integrating Culture into the Classroom” Fehintola Mosadomi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies—“Yoruba Yemi Book II”

Aaron Bar Adon Elected to the Academy of the Hebrew Language

Posted: Jan 3, 2012

MES Professor Aaron Bar-Adon has spent decades studying and teaching Hebrew linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. He helped create the field of study that seeks to understand a language that helped shape civilization and was uniquely resurrected in a modern form during the past 125 years. Bar-Adon also contributed to the growth of the linguistics and Hebrew programs that have taught thousands of Texas students.