FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS GALORE

The close of the school year and the start of summer has brought many exciting grants and fellowships to students and faculty in our department:

• Kelsey Sasaki received a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development fellowship
• Maziar Toosarvandani & Matt Wagers received a UCSC Committee on Research and Vice Chancellor for Research Collaborative Research Grant for “Universal language processing principles in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
• Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani received a UCHRI, an Engaging Humanities grant for “Tools for linguistic self-discovery: Empowering California’s Oaxacan communities”
• IHR Research Cluster Grant: “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” to Junko Ito,
  Armin Mester, Jim McCloskey,
  Maziar Toosarvandani, and graduate students Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda
• Jason Ostrove and Andrew Hedding are both IHR Public Fellows
• Jenny Bellik and Deniz Rudin both received IHR Summer Dissertation Fellowships