For her drive to make learning relevant, challenging and engaging, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, chair of UNT's Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures and a professor of German, was named 2012 Post-Secondary Outstanding German Educator by the American Association of Teachers of German in November. She received a travel grant to go this year to the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, a literature archive, library and museum in Marbach, Baden-Württemburg, Germany, where she will conduct research for a book on the German author Friedrich Christian Delius. Costabile-Heming is a former president of the association.