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Congratulations to our Student Maxx Coleman Vogel for receiving The Jose Rubia Barcia Essay and Prize and the Carroll B. Johnson Outstanding Senior Award! Maxx Vogel was born a Bruin at the UCLA Medical Center. Two and a half decades later, he is monumentally proud to be graduating from the very same university with a…

Congratulations to our Student Laura Czerniecki for receiving The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award!! Laura Czerniecki is an international student whose passion for Latin America and languages stems from her Brazilian heritage and multicultural upbringing. At UCLA, she has received departmental honors and pursued community engagement and professional opportunities that service the Latinx community. Under…

Congratulations to our Student Kathia Berenice Rosas Diaz for receiving The Richard Reeve Spring Essay Prize on Spanish American Literature and Culture!! I’m Kathia Berenice Rosas Díaz and will be graduating with a B.A. in Spanish and History with a minor in Chicana/o Studies. I will be pursuing a master’s degree in Latin American Studies…

Congratulations to our Student Emily Vose for receiving The Carroll B. Johnson Outstanding Senior Award of Special Distinction!! Emily Vose is a first-generation, transfer student from Atascadero, CA. She transferred from Cuesta College after earning her Associate’s Degree in Spanish. Upon transferring to UCLA, she became involved with the Transfer Student Center, leading the summer…

Congratulations to our Student Monica Moreno for receiving The Claudia Parodi Spring Essay Award in Spanish Linguistics!! Monica Elizabeth Moreno is a first-generation college student from San Bernardino, CA. At UCLA, Monica has received Spanish & Portuguese departmental honors and worked alongside Doctora Suhr on multiple research opportunities. Recently, she finished a research paper on…

HÉCTOR CALDERÓN WAS 19 IN 1965, when he was hired to help compile what would later become the Archive of Healing. He had entered the University of California Los Angeles hoping to become an accountant. That all changed when he started working for Professor Wayland Hand, the Director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Comparative…

Dear S&P Graduating Seniors, Our Dept is happy to announce that we now have our Dept sash available in the online Graduation Store (Bruin Custom Print) for you to order. Order our Dept sash and patch here. At this link you will find the form to order your sash and also to add our Senior Class Seal Design patch…

Maxwell Gordy | April 20, 2021 Shirley Arora, professor emerita in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, died March 23 in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She was 90. During her 37-year career at UCLA, Arora became the first woman to chair the Spanish and Portuguese department, a position she held for 10 years. She was a…