AWARDS ANNOUNCED ON MAY 15, 2020

Outstanding Language Awards

Arabic

Chinese                                             

German                                            

Japanese

Korean

Russian

Herr Jacques Breitenbucher Award

Outstanding Upper-Class Female Students Learning German or Russian

Student Achievements

On February 20-22, 2020, Miami University's Model Arab League student team met great success at the Ohio Valley Regional Model Arab League, hosted at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Model Arab League is a student debate competition run by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. The student league at Miami was established in 1983 to develop leadership skills such as public speaking, parliamentary procedure, and diplomacy.

Nearly all students won an outstanding or distinguished award for their representation as delegates of Sudan or Qatar. Below are students from GRAMELAC that participated.

• Gabrielle Arvizu and Shams L. Al Khafaji are minoring in Arabic: Distinguished Delegation in Council of Arab Social Affairs Ministers
• Eliza Mills and Sydne Blackburn are minoring in Chinese: Distinguished Delegation Joint Defense Council
• Mackenzie Holtz and Sydney Chuen are both minoring in Arabic: Outstanding Delegation Joint Defense Council
• Meghan Brandabur is completing the Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies major: Outstanding Delegation Council on Palestinian Affairs
• Mohammed Shaheen is minoring in Arabic: Distinguished Delegation in Council of Arab Economic Affairs Ministers

The Miami students competed against John Carroll University, Campbellsville University, Ashland University, Wilmington College, and Shawnee State University.

In March, the team was to head to Washington DC to compete at the National Conference. Sadly, this event was canceled due to the pandemic.

2020-2021 Fulbright Winners

Sarah Frick - Quantitative Economics major with Japanese and Statistics minors, open study/research award in Japan.

Katherine (Katie) Rogers - German and History double major with a French minor, English teaching assistant in Germany.

Alternate:

August John Hagemann-Economics and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, English teaching assistant in Russia

2019-2020 Dean Scholars

Aimee Joy Liston worked with Dr. Mariana Ivanova and Dr. Catherine Grimm.  Her research explores political and cultural developments surrounding automobile and transit use in the United States and West Germany during the years following World War II. This time period was formative of transportation cultures in the U.S. and Germany, and its effects are visible to this day.

Ellie Joy Timmons worked work with Dr. John M. Jeep. The purpose of her study is to understand the development of German as a written language and how the vestiges Roman Empire’s culture and language influenced this development. There are three key influences: linguistic, political and religious.

Individual Achievements

August John Hagemann double majors in Economics and Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies is Miami’s American Council of Teachers of Russian Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award winner. He will also begin studying at the University of Illinois’ Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literature on a five-year full scholarship.

Graduating Majors and Minors

Arabic Minors

East Asian Languages and Cultures Majors - China Concentration

Michael Yuri Kondratiev
Iris Andrea Patton - Cum Laude
Ana Mercedes Nieto - Cum Laude
Dania Gloria Puente Davilla - Cum Laude

East Asian Languages and Cultures Majors -Japan Concentration

Kevin M. Berning - Cum Laude
Foster Ellis Edens
Ruicheng Huang
Hailei Lan
Keng Lin
Dan Luo - Cum Laude
Weize Song
Kellyn Holden Vince
Haoyan Yu
Hailun Zhang
Zhoutian Zhao

Chinese Minors

German Majors

German Minors

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Majors

Russian Minors