AISSEN AND ZHANG IN UC SANTA CRUZ REVIEW

Prominently featured in the Fall 2007 issue of the UC Santa Cruz Review is Judith Aissen. The article “Saving Endangered Languages” is devoted to language endangerment, Judith’s linguistic research on Tzotzil, and her involvement in teaching speakers of Mayan languages in Mexico and Guatemala how to analyze and help preserve their languages. Also in the same issue is an article about Yi Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science whose research on information retrieval from massive data bases has involved several Linguistics grads. The current issue of the Review is not yet online; watch for it here.