Asian Languages and Civilizations
Five professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have won the 2018 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award.
Paul W. Kroll, professor of Chinese at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society, becoming the fifth member ever of the university’s faculty—and the first from the humanities—to gain this recognition.
When Laurel Rasplica Rodd began studying Japanese language and culture, she was one of only about 7,000 students nationwide. Today, the United States has an estimated 200,000. At ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, Rodd helped fuel and meet the student demand.
Because she had hip surgery during the winter break, University of Colorado Student Annie Miller could not physically attend class in the beginning weeks of the spring 2017 semester. A robot and some teamwork ensured that she could attend remotely.