Announcing 2025 David Rood Winners!
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year's recipients of the David Rood Linguistics Undergraduate Scholarship: Alycia Catt and Deborah Martushev!
Awarded since 2017, the David Rood Linguistics Undergraduate Scholarship recognizes a continuing student or students for their outstanding academic achievement in our undergraduate program, as well as potential for further success in linguistics. The scholarship of $500 is named in honor of Professor David Rood, who retired in 2016 after 48 years of teaching at CU.
Alycia Catt is an undergraduate student at CU Boulder majoring in both Linguistics and International Affairs with a minor in Spanish. Additionally, Alycia is currently enrolled in the Bachelor's-Accelerated Master's program of the Linguistics Department. She loves to be involved in the campus community by attending events and interacting with a multitude of the university's departments. In the future, she aims to be involved in work promoting awareness of language revitalization on a global scale.
Deborah Martushev is a Linguistics major additionally pursuing a minor in Anthropology (profile picture and full bio forthcoming).
Congratulations, Alycia and Deborah!