News/Announcements
Congratulations to the following members of the language teaching faculty who have recently been promoted and who have received awards!
Promotions (May 2012):
Shannon Millikin, Spanish, promotion to Senior Lecturer
Jili Sun, Chinese, promotion to Senior Lecturer
Christiane Rey, French, promotion to Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Awards (May 2012):
Penny Fahey Nichols, Spanish, Outstanding Freshman Adviser Award
Noriko Taira Yashohama, Japanese, NU Alumni Teaching Award
Promotions, Recent Awards, and Retirements (May 2011)!
The following language instructors were promoted this year:
Jeannie Jacob, Spanish, promoted to Senior Lecturer
Sue Pechter, Spanish, promoted to Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Deborah Rosenberg, Spanish, promoted to Senior Lecturer
Francesca Tataranni, Latin, promoted to Senior Lecturer
María Teresa Villanueva, Spanish, promoted to Senior Lecturer
Katrin Voelkner, German, promoted to Senior Lecturer
Ingrid Zeller, German, promoted to Distinguished Senior Lecturer
These language instructors have won internal awards (May 2011):
Joel Colom-Mena, Spanish, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Li-Cheng Gu, Chinese, Weinberg College Community Building Award
Guilia Guidotti, Italian, NU Alumni Teaching Award
Fatima Khan, Arabic, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Bruce Knickerbocker, Chinese, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Paola Morgavi, Italian, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Rami Nair, Hindi, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Marie-Thérèse Pent, French, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Yumi Shiojima, Japanese, NU Alumni Teaching Award
Francesca Tataranni, Latin, ASG Faculty Honor Roll
Ingrid Zeller, German, Charles Deering McCormick Award for Teaching Excellence
The following language instructors retired in Winter and Spring 2011 after long and extraordinary service to Northwestern University:
Giulia Giodotti, Italian [more information to come]
Margaret Sinclair, French [more to come]
Vera Teixeira, Portuguese [more to come]
Kristine Thorsen, German [more to come]
