Kristin is majoring in German and French and also works as a German tutor for the elementary and intermediate classes. She first learned German in Freiburg, Germany, where she stayed with a family and took classes for two months. She has a passion for languages and is looking into the possibility of going to graduate school to become an interpreter. She also hopes to eventually live in Europe for an extended period of time. She finds speaking a foreign language and assimilating into a new culture one of the best experiences in life.
Rachel, a German major, is very interested in German history, especially the second world war and the resistance in Nazi Germany. She is writing her thesis about the resistance. Rachel also works as a tutor for our Elementary and Intermediate classes.
Stephanie is a Comparative Literary Traditions major but is taking a lot of German classes and is thinking about a German concentration. Her mom taught her German when she was little, and she started taking German at UD because she wanted to learn the language more thoroughly, especially the grammar. Now she hopes to become capable of writing well in German.
Grant is majoring in Economics and German and he also works as a German tutor for the elementary and intermediate classes. He enjoys studying German history, especially that of the GDR, and he is interested in European-American and international relations. Before his Rome semester, in the summer of 2008, he took international summer classes at the University of Eichsttt, in Bavaria, where he only spoke German and made many international friends.
Former Affiliate Assistant Professor of Spanish Nicole (Hammerschmidt) Lasswell, BA '03, and her husband, Martin, have two sons, Will and Stevie, both of whom have autism. For World Autism Awareness Day, the family was interviewed on Telemundo; because the boys are thriving, it seemed particularly important to the Lasswells to share their story and their hope with others.
+ Read MoreThe first time Monica Ashour, MTS '95 MH '04, read St. John Paul II's "Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body" was in 2000 with a small, grassroots group of parents and teachers, including DeAnn (Barta) Stuart, Ph.D., BA '98 MH '04, and Annie (Duffin) Vining, MTh '03. This group went on to found The Theology of the Body Evangelization Team Inc. (TOBET) on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, 2001.
+ Read MoreUD is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Wu Trujillo as its new vice president for university advancement. Trujillo currently serves as chief development officer and director of the Honor the Future campaign at the University of Virginia (UVA) Law School Foundation, which conducts alumni relations, external affairs, fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the UVA School of Law. He begins his new role at the end of June.
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