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MÁS ALLÁ Summer Camp Returns!
MÁS ALLÁ is back at the Ohio State University where in a single week students can learn how to play Andean panpipes and other instruments, have an immersive Spanish-language experience, and…

AU 18 Language Offerings: Less Commonly Taught Languages of Latin America
Yucatec Maya *New in AU18*Yucatec Maya is spoken by over a million speakers, primarily in the Yucatán in Southern Mexico, the Maya Riviera coastal region of Cancún, and Belize, where the language…
CLAS Hosts Global Migration Discussion Group
This year, the five area study centers of the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University have been hosting teacher discussion workshops focused on current migration issues from a…

Fulbright-Hays "Teach the Andes" Video
Over this past summer, twelve K-12 educators and Fulbright-Hays recipients from around the country participated in Ohio State's "Teach the Andes" program. Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman,…

CLAS Quechua Instructor featured in Bolivian news
CLAS affiliated Quechua instructor, Elvia Andia Grágeda, has been featured in the Bolivian news site, La Razón, for her work with the Quechua program at Ohio State. Elvia Andía is a linguist…

Center for Latin American Studies awarded Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant
The Tinker Foundation has awarded a Field Research grant to the Center for Latin American Studies, which will be used to provide graduate students with funds for travel to and within Latin America…

MÁS ALLÁ Summer Program
The Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State will hold its second annual Music And Spanish in the Andes Language Learning Academy (MÁS ALLÁ) June 11 - 15…

CLAS Faculty Bryan Mark Sets New Record with Glacier-Mapping Drone
CLAS Faculty Bryan Mark and University of Colorado - Boulder faculty Oliver Wigmore have set a new record, flying a data-collecting drone over the Peruvian Andes at almost 5000 meters, the highest…
Fulbright-Hays "Teach the Andes" Teacher highlighted in news
This past summer, the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State welcomed twelve K-12 educators and Fulbright-Hays recipients from across the nation to participate in the Fulbright-Hays Group…