SiS Newsletter - May 2011
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Recent News May, 2011
• New Florida Law Requires eTextbooks in High Schools in 4 Years.
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/new-florida-law-requires-etextbooks-in-high-schools-in-4-years_b10985
• Hispanic Population Explodes, Census Shows.
http://temecula.patch.com/articles/hispanic-latino-chicano-population-grows-in-temecula
• Boomers and Seniors Learn Spanish Online with Live Instructors.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/04/26/prweb8325665.DTL
SiS Student Ambassadors
• Nora Dougherty
SiS on the road
• Study in Spain will be traveling throughout the US again this academic year.
Amigos del español
• Eva Longoria
Institution Profile
• Universidad de Valladolid – Centro de idiomas
Interview Lounge
• Ph.D. Denise Mills, Professor of Spanish at Daemen College, NY.
Amigos del español
Sofia Vergara
Who was Griselda Blanco? For many years, this woman was only the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Cocaine Godmother’ two of the nicknames that the few people who knew her were using to identify her.
Sofía Coppola
A teenager and a rock star fall in love and get married in Director Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama, ‘Priscilla’. Literature has even found its way into her on-screen work.
Xolo Maridueña
The new DC action movie, 'Blue Beetle', is the first to feature a Latino superhero as the protagonist. The film tells the story of Jaime Reyes, a recent university graduate, who returns home to Ciudad Palmera when he comes into contact with a Beetle
