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Students can now minor in ASL, take advantage of an expanded set of upper-level classes, participate in a number of ASL events on campus and be part of an active student club.
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Cornell’s world of opportunities is coming to central campus. Students can take a whirlwind tour through the university’s global offerings at this year’s International Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Uris Hall Terrace.
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The Language Resource Center is here to support your language learning at Cornell.
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Hilary Yarger (she/her) joins the LRC as Engagement and Outreach Coordinator.
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The A&S Career Connections Committee hosts events during summer and winter breaks in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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The 2023 Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award was awarded to Kevin Kwong, a Ph.D. student in Linguistics who has studied Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish, and Khmer as part of the Shared Course Initiative. The award is named in memory of our friend and colleague Lisa Sansoucy, who passed away in December of 2021. It recognizes a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language.
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The student-run Translator-Interpreter Program, which trains bilingual and multilingual Cornell students to serve as volunteer translators and interpreters for community agencies, received the 27th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony during a ceremony April 18 at Willard Straight Hall.
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“Understanding the impact of Languages Across the Curriculum on all participants will allow us to build on its success and offer multilingual students more opportunities to engage with their disciplinary content in languages other than English."
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The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, including international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, and more. Join this year's fair on Wednesday, August 31, from 11 am to 1 pm on the Uris Hall Terrace.
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The Language Resource Center is here to support your language learning at Cornell.
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From Ithaca to Hawaii to Ecuador, students in the Robert S. Harrison College Scholars Program took advantage of the summer as a time to explore their research interests.
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An album featuring the work of Daniel Gaibel, former information technology manager for the Language Resource Center (LRC), will debut this weekend at the Ithaca Festival.
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The inaugural Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award was awarded to Aliou Gambrel, a graduating senior who studied Wolof as part of the Shared Course Initiative. The award is named in memory of our friend and colleague Lisa Sansoucy, who passed away in December of 2021. It recognizes a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language...
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Growing up, Anna Chen '24 observed firsthand one of the primary barriers for immigrants: language. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she often served as the interpreter and translator for her parents and extended family. "I saw how they were penalized for not being able to speak English fluently," she said.
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The Language Resource Center (LRC) welcomes a new team member, Dr. Emma Britton. As the LRC Coordinator of Language Learning Initiatives, Emma will work closely with faculty, staff, and students across the university to develop and institutionalize new models of language learning.
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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The exhibition helped students connect more personally with migration issues and share alternative stories of social justice and migration.
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The ways instructors present social justice topics in the classroom provide a roadmap for how others see the world. Cornell's Spanish courses have always focused on social and cultural issues, which are central to learning a language.Having taught about migration before and taking inspiration from Cornell's Grand Global Challenges and the...
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The Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award will offer financial assistance to a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language. It is named in memory of our friend and colleague Lisa Sansoucy, who passed away in December of 2021. Lisa worked at the Language Resource Center for over 7 years. She was a devoted Cornellian, having...
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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In the recent Thanksgiving mini-episode of the Language Resource Center weekly podcast, Speaking of Language, we shared a message from our late Technology Director, Dan Gaibel. In the fall of 2018, Dan recorded himself discussing some of the perspective he gained from his battle with cancer. As we head toward the end of 2021, we at the LRC hope it...
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Each year, we invite students and alumni to translate and sing Cornell's Alma Mater, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters." The inaugural Lingua Mater competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Watch this year's winners on our Lingua Mater website.Congratulations to the Burmese, French, and Indonesian...
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The Quechua language returned to Cornell’s curriculum this fall after a 15-year hiatus, thanks to a group of students who organized to bring it back and an instructor who traveled to Ithaca from her home in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.
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The Language Resource Center is here to support your language learning at Cornell.This Fall, we will continue to offer conversation hours and tutoring, host guest speaker events, and co-sponsor the annual Lingua Mater competition (which includes cash prizes!). You can keep up with us on social media, check our website, or subscribe to our...
/news/welcome-class-2025This fall, Cornell's new Yiddish program is setting its sights higher, riding a generational trend in interest and changing attitudes toward the language.Currently, Yiddish classes meet one evening a week. Starting with the Fall 2021 semester, Elementary Yiddish will be offered for four credit hours and held four days per week. As of Fall 2022,...
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In honor of Thanksgiving, we asked language students at Cornell to thank their teachers for their hard work, particularly through the transition to remote learning in 2020. We share what a few of them had to say (in their target languages, of course) in this special Thanksgiving mini-episode of the LRC Podcast Speaking of Language.We are...
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Global Cornell will lead Cornell’s participation in International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. This year’s events will be held virtually, Nov. 16-20.With federally sponsored international exchange programs – including the Fulbright Program – on pause due to COVID-19,...
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The Language Resource Center is here to support your language learning at Cornell, whether it is on campus or in a virtual space. Since transitioning to online support this past Spring, we have continued to provide educational tools and technology solutions to students, faculty, and members of the worldwide language learning community.This...
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<p> Cornell’s Language Resource Center is hosting online conversation groups this summer for the first time, helping students practice their skills in four languages.</p>
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Come see the new Language Resource Center (LRC) location on the ground floor of Stimson Hall. Check out our multilingual mural with international expressions from Cornell’s talented language teachers. Find out how language learning has happened from a distance even before this semester through Cornell's involvement in the Shared Course Initiative...
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<h3> Emma Clark<br /> Computer science & Spanish<br /> Spring Lake, NJ</h3><p> <strong>Why did you choose Cornell?</strong></p>
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<p>The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!</p><p>Your gifts to our annual fund, undergraduate scholarship fund or any of our departments and programs help our faculty and students reach their full potential.</p>
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Cornell’s Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) program was recently featured in The Washington Post. Part of a growing national movement, LAC offers flexible models of instruction that gives students multiple opportunities to meaningfully use languages they know or are learning while integrating language into disciplinary areas.
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The Language Resource Center (LRC) welcomes a new team member, John Graves. As the LRC Instructional Designer and Project Manager, John will work closely with language faculty to explore, plan, and implement instructional technologies to enhance the experience of teaching and learning another language. His background and expertise are in the areas...
/news/lrc-welcomes-new-team-member-john-gravesThe College of Arts and Sciences has expanded its language offerings by launching a Yiddish program. The fall 2019 pilot class, Elementary Yiddish I, was overenrolled, demonstrating strong student interest, and the program is continuing this spring with Elementary Yiddish II.“Yiddish is a vital part of not only Jewish cultural heritage, but...
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Cornell University hosted its first celebration of World Languages Day (WLD) on Saturday, October 19, 2019. The day-long event for secondary school students highlighted world languages and cultures, globalization, and the positive impact knowledge of other languages and cultures can have on future career paths. High school students from local and...
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"I would like to see every student at Cornell have the opportunity to have an international experience."
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The voices of 15 students are silent on a recent morning in a language classroom in Morrill Hall. But their faces, bodies and hands are communicating loud and clear.They tilt their heads, morph their mouths and hands into precise shapes, raise and lower their eyebrows, and shift their expressions as they direct their classmates to place a...
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<p><a href="http://angelikakraemer.com">Angelika Kraemer,</a> Director of the<a href="http://lrc.cornell.edu"> Language Resource Center</a> at Cornell and an affiliated senior lecturer in the Department of <a href="https://german.cornell.edu">German Studies</a>, received the Michigan World Language Association’s (MIWLA) Barbara Ort-Smith Award Oct. 24 at MIWLA’s annual conference in Lansing, Michigan.</p>
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The rich cultural history of Korea – including powerful percussion and traditional dance – will be featured at the Korean Language Program’s (KLP) 30th anniversary celebration on Friday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 pm. The event will also feature Korean foods, and will conclude with musical performances by Shimtah, E.Motion, LOKO, and Hanchum. The...
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For the first time in Cornell’s history, students this year can take a class to learn the language of the Cayuga Nation, whose traditional territory is now home to Cornell’s Ithaca campus. The launch of the class coincides with the United Nations Declaration of 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages.Stephen Henhawk, a Cayuga speaker and...
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Having been born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, I am constantly amazed by the high level of linguistic diversity in this city. The Indonesian archipelagos are home to six hundred to seven hundred living local languages. The high population density in this national capital creates extensive interethnic and linguistic interaction among the...
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<p>Daniel Gaibel, information technology manager for the Language Resource Center (LRC) for 18 years, died March 30 of metastatic melanoma. He was 45.</p><p>“His love for people, cultures, technology, and music was evident in everything he did. We will miss him dearly,” said Angelika Kraemer, LRC director. She noted that according to Gaibel, "fortune favors the bold" and the glass was always full. </p>
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<p>A new season of podcasts from the Language Resource Center (LRC) celebrates 2019 as the <a href="https://en.iyil2019.org/">United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages</a>. The global celebration kicked off with a seminar in New York City Feb. 1, showcasing the world’s ancient tongues and highlighting the need to conserve, revitalize and promote them.</p>
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<p>Forty years ago when Richard “Dick” Feldman arrived at Cornell, students learning a language had only a basement lab in Morrill Hall stocked with audio tapes to help them. When Feldman retires on June 30, new director Angelika Kraemer will take the helm of a robust Language Resource Center bustling with technology, programs, and resources. </p>
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“We want this to be not only a place to practice other languages, but also a place to have encounters with other cultures.”
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