MCGUIRE AND PADGETT WIN NSF RESEARCH AWARD

Exciting news came in early September when the National Science Foundation announced that it was to fund a collaborative research project involving Grant McGuire and Jaye Padgett (along with alumnus Ryan Bennett, who is now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale). The grant will provide support for the ongoing ultrasound study of palatalization and velarization of consonants in Irish and will also involve Máire Ní Chiosáin of University College Dublin as a collaborator. The project description is available here and a shorter description of the proposed research can be read here.

Announcement of the award generated a great deal of excitement and positive publicity for the researchers, for the department, and for UCSC—first in the campus newsletter, then in the San Jose Mercury News, then on BBC radio (8:02—15:12) and in an article to be published soon in the Irish Times.