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Dear All,

We want to express our gratitude to each and every one of you for supporting LACSI. 

Your generosity has surpassed our expectations for this year's Dawg Day of Giving. It will certainly contribute to sustaining the work of the Institute and our standing-alone (and most popular) programs: the Weekly Language Conversation Tables and the Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden (soon to be named the UGA Ethnobotanical Garden of the Americas).

With your participation and support, we remain committed to our mission to promote research, education, and service and outreach on Latin America, the Caribbean, and U.S. Latino/a/es.

Sincerely,
Chad, Jorge, Carla, Nunally, Mario, and Katie.

We join the Department of Romance Languages collective celebration of publications from 2023 to 2025, many of which belong to LACSI Core and Affiliated faculty.

More information on the event and the list of featured publications by clicking on the button below. 

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) will hold its 2025 Strategic Planning Workshop and Retreat on Monday, May 5, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the MLC, Room 248.

Please join us in congratulating LACSI core and affiliated faculty for receiving this year's University of Georgia Research Foundation awards due to their excellence in research and scholarly creativity. 

Dr. Krista Capps , Associate Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, and LACSI Core Faculty , obtained the Creative Research Medal for  research on global carbon cycling in rivers. The Medal recognizes mid-career faculty who deliver "a distinct and exceptional research or creative project, with extraordinary impact to the field of study."

This year's Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award went to Dr. Rielle Navitski, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies and LACSI Core Faculty for her position as a leading scholar whose body of work has had a significant impact on her field nationally and internationally.

Dr. Luis Correa-Díaz, professor of Spanish in the Franklin College Department of Romance Languages and LACSI Core Faculty and Executive Committee Member, was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor. The award is granted to UGA senior faculty internationally recognized for their innovative work and its transformational impact on their fields.

Many congratulations as well to Dr. Thomas Mote, Distinguished Research Professor in the department of geography and LACSI Faculty Affiliate,  for being named as a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow along with four other UGA faculty. 

The AAAS has, so far, named 471 fellows across the country to honor "members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues."

A message from LAEG Curator:

For the remainder of the semester, I will be in the garden on Tuesdays, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays 12:00  and 4:00 p.m.

Please feel free to swing by and I'll put you to work weeding, shoveling mulch and/or cutting things back... or we can just talk about plants.

If you are interested and can't make it during these times, reach out to me at Nunally.Benzing@uga.edu and we'll see what we can make work.

The CLASP Faculty Research/Professional Development Grant is intended to support research or professional development by US-based faculty at all ranks (including non-tenure-track) during the 2025 calendar year. Awards will be up to $1,000. Research should be conducted in (or about) Latin America (including the Caribbean).
 
Applicants must be employed at a CLASP member institution to be considered for this award.

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