This Week in LANG 3/31/2025

March 31, 2025
Categories: Community Events, Cultural Events, General Events, General News Tags: 2025, chinese, japanese, spanish

Dear colleagues, 

Today is the first day of registration, which means this will be a busy day and week. However, I hope you are all looking forward to the Spring Refresh Weekend, which means there are no classes on Friday. Please note the main office will be remote on Friday.  

Dates and Events this Week

Monday, March 31

  • Registration for Summer and Fall begins

Thursday, April 4

  • Faculty-Led Program Development Workshop on April 4, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. RSVP 

Friday, April 5

  • No Classes

Looking Ahead Dates and Events Spring 2025

April 8

April 11

  • Department Meeting, 2:30-4:00, virtual

April 15

  • Witness in Residence: Ali Shaw presentation, 4 pm

May 1

  • Reading Day, Department Meeting

May 10

  • Commencement, 10 am, CHESS

Congratulations

Congratulations to Chikako Mori. Chikako defended her dissertation entitled “Factors that Influence Faculty’s Intentions to Integrate Social Media Applications into Language Courses” on Monday, March 24. Her doctorate is in the Department of Educational Leadership in the concentration of Learning, Design, and Technology. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Chikako Mori. 

Congratulations to Yukiko Yokono, Don Cross, Susana Cisneros, Maria Mahaffey, and Xiaohong Muller for hosting the 8th Annual Multi language Poetry Slam. Participants enjoyed an original poem by the guest speaker, Svanny Wong, and then presented their original poems in English, Japanese and Spanish as well as their Original Haikus in Japanese. The event concluded with recitations of published poems in Japanese, Chinese and Spanish. Svanny Wong, Yuki Kobayashi, and Jules Geaney-Moore served as judges. 

Congratulations to Susana Cisneros for being honored with The Woman in the Glass Award by the Alpha Lambda Sorority on the UNC Charlotte campus. 

Congratulations to Sandra Watts for serving as a CHESS Faculty Fellow for the Summer AMDM faculty development program. Congratulations also to Sandra who was awarded an honorarium in the amount of $1000 to present her findings on SEP in online, asynchronous courses at the upcoming AAC&U Forum on Digital Innovation.

Congratulations to UNC Charlotte, to all of us, for reaching R1 status.

Congratulations to Yukiko Yokono, Chikako Mori and Kazue Shaumburg for successfully preparing their students for the 2025 Duke Japanese Speech contest.  Their students Liam June and Pano Hambu placed second and third in their levels. 

  • Level II: 2nd Place: Liam June (JAPN 2202, Accounting major, International Business Intern in Japan)
  • Level I: 3rd Place: Pano Hamby (JAPN 1202, Mechanical Engineering major, Japanese minor)
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Information for Faculty and Staff

Niner Gives in April

If you plan to give to UNC Charlotte in April during the Niner Gives Campaign, please consider designating your contribution to our department. 

Upcoming Events

Witness in Residence: Aly Shaw on April 15 at 4 p.m.

Faculty: Please remember to invite your theme course students to block time for this spring’s  Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative (and let them know we try to do it for them once per semester). This spring, the Initiative is collaborating with the Department of Global Studies, as well as the Dean’s Office. Shaw plans to share her experience of leading campaigns to address community environmental concerns and to help students understand the tools and databases available to them for their research. 

Thank you for all you do. 

All the best,

Anabel