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Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ commemorates the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday to honor the slain civil rights leader on Monday, Jan. 16.  All Â鶹¾«Ñ¡campuses are closed, with the 2023 Spring Semester and classes beginning Tuesday, Jan. 17.   The university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration will take place Thursday, Feb. 2, at 5:30 p.m., when Bernice A. King, daughter of the civil rights leader, will be the keynote speaker.  King, who was just 5 years old when her father was assassinated, serves as chief executive officer of the Martin Luther King...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently announced that Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Ph.D., an associate professor of French and Translation in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, is one of 22 translators selected to receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $10,000. This fellowship will support the translation of Anne-Marie Albiach's La Mezzanine: The Last Account of Catarina Quia into English. In total, the NEA will award $300,000 in grants to support the translation into English of works written in 10 different languages from 16 countrie...