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Cory Shain and Micha Elsner Win Best Paper at SIGNLL
Cory Shain and Micha Elsner have won the best paper award at the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning for their paper entitled, “Acquiring language from speech by learning…

Undergraduate Nick Bednar featured as a Linguist List Rising Star
Undergraduate Linguistics major Nick Bednar has been featured as a 2020 Linguist List Rising Star: https://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/rising-stars-meet-nick-bednar/. …

Gina Ndoci Awarded Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows Small Grant
Gina Ndoci has been awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows Small Grant for Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Research. Congratulations, Gina!

Anna Taylor Named Member of Global Arts + Humanities Society of Undergraduate Fellows
Honors Linguistics major Anna Taylor has been named a member of the inaugural Global Arts + Humanities Society of Undergraduate Fellows. The theme for the 2020-21 academic year is Human Rights:…

Connor Rouillier Awarded Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship
Connor Rouillier has been awarded the first Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship in Linguistics for his proposal entitled "Individuation Effects in Arabic's Nominal and Verbal Domains."…

Professor Bob Levine and Alumnus Yusuke Kubota's Book Entitled "Type-Logical Syntax" Published By MIT Press
Professor Bob Levine's book entitled "Type-Logical Syntax" with co-author and alumnus Yusuke Kubota has been published by MIT Press (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/type-logical-syntax).…

William Thomas wins ESSLLI poster award
Graduate student William Thomas has received one of the two student poster awards at the joint virtual student session for ESSLLI (European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information)…

Anouschka Foltz authors Working Life feature in Science
PhD alumna Anouschka Foltz authored a Working Life feature in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/542
The article is entitled “Clocking your work” and describes…

Martha Johnson wins International Research and Scholar Grant
Martha Johnson has been awarded an International Research and Scholar Grant from the Office of International Affairs, the Office of Research, and the Graduate School for her research on the…