Meet Felix Fonseca Garcia, 2026 Rhode Island College Graduate in World Languages Education-Portuguese and Spanish Minor!


*Felix Fonseca Garcia graduates with the 2026 Prémio Em Estudos Portugueses conferred by the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies for Best Graduating Major in Portuguese Studies.

*He was awarded the Mary Alice Grellner Outstanding Senior Award for excellence in secondary education and inducted into the Sigma Chapter of the Phi Lambda Beta National Portuguese Honor Society on the basis of high scholarship.

*In 2025 he was awarded the John A. and Mary Lima scholarship in Portuguese and the Lema-Fernandes Study Abroad scholarship for his international internship in Lisbon.













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Felix Fonseca Garcia Awarded Summer Internship in Portugal


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Thank you for your kind attention,

Dr. Sílvia Oliveira, IPLWS Director

Soliveira@ric.edu | (401)456-8748

Rhode Island College is a regional comprehensive public college that serves 6,000+ undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students through its five schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Business, the Zvart Onanian School of Nursing and the School of Social Work. Established in 1854, we are Rhode Island’s first public institution of higher education. For more information, visit www.ric.edu


Established in 2006, the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies bridges the connection between Rhode Island College and the Lusophone community, promotes the Portuguese Studies program at Rhode Island College, and pursues scholarly and cultural research in the areas of the Portuguese language and Lusophone cultures. For more information, visit: https://www.ric.edu/department-directory/institute-portuguese-and-lusophone-world-studies

 

Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies at Rhode Island College