Foreign Languages and Literature Honors & Awards

Each year, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature holds a ceremony to recognize a select number of students who have shown exceptional achievements in foreign language study from Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish, Master of Arts in Language Teaching (MALT) and our student organization Sigma Delta Pi. All students, faculty, friends and family are welcome to join us in celebrating these students.

2021 Award Recipients

As we did not gather for a ceremony this year due to Covid, we celebrate our honorees in the video below.

University-Wide Honors

The department nominates one Foreign Languages and Literature major for UNO University-Wide Honors.

• Julia Cormack

Outstanding Student in the Language

Departmental Honors are given to one student from each FLL major concentration: French, German and Spanish.

• French: Julia Cormack
• German: Mary Wobser
• Spanish: Aidan Posey

Departmental Honors

Departmental Honors recognizes a select number of majors and minors for FLL languages with concentrations. For all other languages the top acheiving students are recognized.

• Chinese: Morgan Haworth
• French: Leigha Little, Alana Schmitz, Kendall Wooden
• German: Brooke Aschwanden and Peter Jeske
• Japanese: Alexis Walther
• Latin: Thomas Kalil
• Russian: Schy Buckland, Ottilie Cooper-Ohm, Luke Hezel
• Spanish: Andrea Daves, Paige Faber, María Ojeda-Rosas, Margarita Rodrigues, Haylee Wawrzynkiewicz

Second-Year Honors

Second-Year Honors recognize students who excel in their language studies at the intermediate level: 2110, 2120 and SPAN 3010.

• French: Catherine Hetrick, Braeden Krall, Emily Lamilla, Nicole Luna, Megan Welch
• German: Rebecca Eshelman, Elizabeth Holloway, Nick Wagner
• Russian: Alyssa Caples, Viktoriya Fedchuk, Reilly Jackson, Haley Prieto, Jordan Winkler
• Spanish: Nour Amoun, Nolan Barry, Karlie Ellis, Brisa Frazier, Rachel Hartgerink, Liesl Lucas, Katalina Nixon, Joy Ondrak, Benjamin Reinhardt

M.A.L.T Graduate Program Honors

• Juan Aguirre

Sigma Delta Pi - National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society

• Student President: Sarah Johnson