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CU Linguistics PhD student Jared Desjardins has received two teaching awards from the University: the Certificate of Excellence from the CU Graduate Teacher Program, and the GPTI Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate School! Over the past two years, Jared has brought passion, empathy, and innovation to his role as...

Professor Emerita Lise Menn has been featured in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Member Spotlight. Reflecting the profoundly empirical orientation of the CU Department of Linguistics overall, the article writes that, across her career, Prof. Menn "would stress and push for the publication and sharing of more...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to be one of seven units taking part in the new CU Boulder Interdisciplinary Writing Certificate . The Certificate in Writing offers a flexible, interdisciplinary curriculum in writing studies that affords new opportunities to undergraduate students to demonstrate their commitment to and excellence in...

The Department of Linguistics facilitates a community-based learning program called the Literacy Practicum . The Practicum's director, Prof. Kira Hall , was recently interviewed by Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine, for an article which you can read here . Current community partners of the Practicum include: University Hill Elementary School...

Prof. Bhuvana Narasimhan represented the Department of Linguistics by hosting an interest table at this year’s UROP Symposium —a critical opportunity for students from historically underrepresented and underserved communities to meet faculty and learn how to get started on research, scholarly and creative projects. While the UROP Symposium is often...

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Rebecca Scarborough , who has been elected to serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) . This is wonderful exposure for our Department in addition to helping strengthen our ties to the LSA, for whom Prof...

The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) has selected Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions (co-authored by CU Linguistics Prof. Barbara Fox , with Sandra A. Thompson and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen) as the recipient of the 2018 Best Book Award ! This prestigious award is given out once every four...

CU-Boulder Linguistics students from Prof. Kira Hall ’s 2017 graduate seminar on 'Language, Gender, and Sexuality' attend the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) Conference in Botswana. Pictured to the left are: Djankow Mathew , Brandon Kahlil Thomas , Chu Paing , Andrew Ting , Olivia Hirschey , and Mabia Camargo .

The International English Center at CU Boulder, a division of CU Continuing Education operated under the supervision of the CU Linguistics department, has recently released a short documentary about the CU Employee English Language Program . During the 2017-18 academic year, a remarkable 57 employees completed the program. CU is...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the release of blog entries authored by the winners of the new Linguistics Undergraduate Research Award ! Our 13 award winners for 2018 are: Shawg Ahmed, Sarah Beemer, Michael Catchen, Lauren Hoos, Christopher Koski, Jonathan Lilley, Jack McCurdy, Harrison Puscher, Amy Sanders,...