✚ Founded in 1965
✚ Alums have won The Best Translated Book Award for Poetry, National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, Pen/Heim grants, GABO Prize, Baltic Center translation residencies among others
✚ Students have won asymptote journal’s Close Approximations best poetry translation awards, ASSA fellowships to study Hindi or Urdu in India, University’s Stanley Research Travel Grants
✚ Inaugurated the nation’s first university-based Translator in Residency Program, hosting Katie Silver, Liz Harris, Lisa Katz, and Mann-Booker winner Deborah Smith
✚ The online journal, Exchanges, with two-issues-per-year, provides hands on training in editing and managing a literary publication, featuring a blog, book reviews and podcasts