Recent News

  • Ávila-Shah Receives $5,000 CATT AI Seed Grant
    7/23/24
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures extends heartfelt congratulations to our Language Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Spanish, Dr. Bárbara Ávila-Shah, on receiving a $5,000.00 AI Seed Grant from the UB Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation. 
  • McCarron Awarded $83K SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant
    6/25/24
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is thrilled to announce that Dr. Melissa McCarron, Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish, has recently been awarded a $83K SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant to develop a mobile app with AI conversation support for culturally competent communication across health professions.
  • RLL Collaborates with UB Latino Medical Student Association and Office of Medical Curriculum to Integrate Spanish Language Instruction into MD Program
    4/24/24
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo has garnered recognition in a recent UB Now article. The spotlight shines on the local chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA), which brought home a first-place award in the 2024 Northeast Conference Poster Competition. Heartfelt congratulations to the LMSA team!
  • Opportunities to live and work in Italy!
    1/12/24
    Italian majors and minors: Please consider these two great upcoming opportunities to live and work in Italy! Several Italian students have gone in the past and they all had a beautiful experience!
  • Social Impact Fellows team wins 2nd place "Pitch for a Cause" competition
    8/15/23
    RLL PhD candidate Marie Celine Dufay Verbié and her team won 2nd place in the "Pitch for a Cause" competition that ended the Summer 2023 Social Impact Fellows program.
  • RLL PhD candidates receive Mark Diamond Research Fund support
    7/21/23
    RLL PhD candidates Alex Bakke and Jamison García Ramírez have been awarded Mark Diamond research fund grants for their dissertation projects.