Spanish Community News & Events

For the Spring of 2025, the MDLL department (and our chapter Iota Rho) will be inducting ten Spanish major and minors into the Spanish Honor Society, Sigma Delta Pi, on April 30th from 3 pm to 5 pm. Congratulations to all the students joining the Society!

Prof. Antonia Petro was invited to be an honoree coach at one of our Women's basketball team games on Saturday February 22nd. This is a special opportunity for the team to recognize and celebrate their professors' dedication and hard work, which have greatly contributed to the growth and success of LMU. It was an honor to be courtside with them and watch our amazing lionesses beat Pepperdine 58-49.

Throughout the year here at Loyola Marymount University, librarians teach 50- to 75-minute instruction sessions for first-year students enrolled in rhetorical arts courses. Usually these sessions are in English, but recently, Instruction Design Librarian Darlene Aguilar accepted an invitation from Professor Mónica Cabrera (Modern Languages and Literatures) to conduct a session in Spanish for the first time. Darlene allowed us to observe her session. We sat down with Darlene afterwards to talk about her preparation, execution, and reflection of the first session she (and possibly the library) conducted in Spanish.

Simret Habte is a sociology major and Spanish minor and an inaugural recipient of the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, which supports future leaders with a passion for building community and helping others.

How Jennifer Eich redefined scholarship in the Department of Modern Literatures and Languages over 28 years.

February 24, 2022