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Asian languages and cultures department Chair Laura Brueck joined Northwestern as an associate professor of South Asian literature and culture in 2013. Now, she’s planning the department’s 10-year ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

The US is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, despite claims of it being a monolingual society. Multiethnic and/or bilingual individuals within the US face societal ...

Less than 1% of all translated literature published in the U.S. during the past 10 years came from a South Asian language, even though the region is home to more than 20% of the world’s population. To ...

Language barriers are a major obstacle to accessing mental health care for those in the US who have difficulty communicating in English. But despite increasing demand, mental health services in Asian ...

“The meteoric rises of Asian languages indicate that global interest… is more than a passing fad”, said Duolingo in a report last year after revealing that all five of the fasting growing languages on ...