07/18/2019 - German minor and recent University of Illinois graduate Emily Freiburger has won a grant to teach English in Austria, under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation and the Austrian-American Educat

07/18/2019 -   “Was ist Liebe/What is Love?  German-American Relations(hips)” An Exhibit as Part of the Deutschlandjahr, at the University of Illinois, August 2019

07/18/2019 - German minor and recent University of Illinois graduate Kiersten Heiman has been admitted to the School of Law at Washington University-St. Louis, one of the nation's most competitive law schools.

07/17/2019 - Charlie Webster, Director of the German Language Program, has been named the next Director of Illinois's Center for Language Instruction and Teaching (

07/17/2019 - German Studies has always grappled with navigating the relationship between geopolitical and linguistic-cultural spaces. Germany From the Outside brings current

07/17/2019 - Fourteen projects have been awarded funds under a new initiative to celebrate the impact and importance of the arts and humanities across the University of Illin

07/17/2019 - Mara Wade was chosen to receive a 2018 Reimar Lüst Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.