Dr. Robert Wells is an associate professor of Spanish at William Jewell College. Wells is entering his sixth year at Jewell and has demonstrated an outstanding ability to invoke engagement in the classroom. As a Jewell student who has taken a couple of Wells’ Spanish courses, I can attest to…
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Dr. David Lisenby translates Spanish texts to English
Dr. David Lisenby, assistant professor of Spanish, has recently ventured into the realm of translating literary texts from Spanish to English. His first published translation is featured in the magazine Latin American Literature Today. The translated essay, “What She Understood: A Reading of Sergio Pitol’s ‘Mephisto’s Waltz,’” was originally written…
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Teaching assistants enhance foreign language learning environment
Four of the languages offered at William Jewell College, Chinese, French, Spanish and Japanese, have teaching assistants (TAs) who come from across the globe to help Jewell students learn about language and culture. Rita Huang Junta Shirai All of the TAs utilized study abroad programs in order to come to the United States.…
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Jewell students spend summer in Guatemala
This past summer, 10 William Jewell College students and three faculty members traveled to San Martin, Guatemala. The students worked on multiple projects within the village in an effort to increase the quality of life among its residents. Dr. Patrick Bunton, physics professor, had traveled previously to Honduras and Costa Rica completing sustainability projects…
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From the Journey: Moriah Vanderburg
Between semesters at William Jewell College, senior Moriah Vanderburg spent two months this summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico using her Journey Grant. Cuernavaca is an hour and a half outside of Mexico City and home to La Universal, a university that works with Augsburg College in Minnesota. Vanderburg studied at La Universal and took…
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