Kudos

Jane Kaplan, modern languages and literatures, was honored in September by being named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the prime minister of France. The award recognizes individuals who have contributed to the propagation of French language and culture in the United States.

Colleen Kattau, modern languages and literatures, has codeveloped a multimedia presentation that she hopes will contribute to closing down the controversial School of the Americas in Georgia. Titled "Sing it Down!" the project has been presented at more than 15 colleges and communities in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Georgia. In October she presented "New Song as a Social Tool" at Colgate University. During the summer of 1998 she was awarded a library research fellowship by Cornell’s Latin America Studies Program. She translated an article for Tricontinental (Havana, Cuba, vol. 138, 1998), and her article "Latin American New Song" appeared in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Julio López-Arias and Gladys M. Varona-Lacey, modern languages and literatures, coedited and published Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999). The book presents a broad perspective of Latin America and highlights its major events, issues, and political, social, and economic changes.