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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...

Students from CU Boulder’s program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) joined their advisor Professor Kira Hall to deliver a well received panel at the AAA/CASCA conference in Vancouver, Canada, November 2019. Entitled “Language and Middleclassness,” the panel originated from a Spring 2019 CU Boulder seminar of the same...

The Department is pleased to announce that Jesús Villalpando-Quiñonez successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019. The title of the dissertation is "Grammatical Aspect in Norogachi Rarámuri (Tarahumara; Uto-Aztecan)". His Ph.D. Committee, chaired by Prof. Zygmunt Frajzyngier , was impressed by the quality of the dissertation and...