During the fall semester the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures had become one of the beneficiaries of the Robert L. Zarbock Endowment Fund.
The late Robert L. Zarbock received his B.A. and M.A. in music from Illinois. According to his biography outlined in the Fund agreement, his mother was of Czech descent, and it is in her honor that Mr. Zarbock established The Mildred P. Zarbock Nee Miroslava Petronilla Vitkova grants in order to support "research and/or course development in the area of Slavic languages, with preference to the Czech language."
“We are extremely grateful to the Zarbock family and are looking forward to new initiatives made possible by this generous gift,” said Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.