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CU Linguistics junior Maisa Nammari is the winner of the 2020 David S. Rood Undergraduate Scholarship. Awarded since 2017, the prize recognizes outstanding achievement, as well as potential for further success in linguistics. The scholarship is named in honor of professor David Rood, a specialist in Siouan-Caddoan languages, who retired...

The Department is excited to share the news that one of our BAM students, Megan Pielke , has been awarded the Jacob Van Ek Scholarship , one of the College of Arts and Sciences’ highest honors. This award recognizes exceptional undergraduates who excel in their academics and meaningfully contribute to...

Please join us in congratulating undergraduate student Heather Mahon, who was recently accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program as an English language teacher for Fall 2020. Heather is a double major in Physics and English and she is also pursuing the TESOL Certificate through the Department of...

Please join us in congratulating Evan Coles-Harris on being selected to receive a Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award for his work as a GPTI in LING 1020 (Languages of the World) this semester. The Graduate School award committee takes into consideration a statement of the nominee's teaching philosophy, a letter...

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rai Farrelly -- Director of our Department's TESOL Program -- on her selection as a 2020-21 faculty researcher in the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program’s 'Making Learning and Teaching Visible (MTLV)' initiative. MTLV faculty researchers will identify one course for revision or redesign, implement revised...

The Department is pleased to announce that PhD student Jared Desjardins has been selected for a Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship to support his work over the summer! Jared’s dissertation involves building an open-access resource for Latin morphological, morphosyntactic and semantic analysis that will synthesize ideas from dependency grammar and construction-based...

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rai Farrelly on the selection of her edited volume -- Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts​ (pictured at right) -- as a FINALIST for the American Association for Applied Linguistics' prestigious and highly competitive biennial AAAL Book Award competition! Dr. Farrelly's book,...

Dean David Brown and Social Sciences Divisional Administrator Vicky Romano came with Bodie the hoppy cow and a giant ‘Get out of Jail Free’ card for Arts & Sciences Employee of Month Ms. Cynthia Clark, JD , in recognition of all she does for our community—from keeping graduate students on...

Tao Lin, who successfully defended his CU Linguistics thesis, 'Automatic Classification of Verb-Direction Constructions in Mandarin Chinese', in Fall 2019 under the supervision of advisors Martha Palmer and Laura Michaelis, has accepted a computational linguist position Milestone Technologies, Inc., a worldwide managed services provider with over 2,000 employees worldwide. In...

The Department is proud to announce that Prof. Martha Palmer has been named Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) ! In its decision letter, the Selection Committee wrote that its members were "very impressed with [Prof. Palmer's] record of influential research contributions and service to...