UNDERGRADUATES WIN RESEARCH AWARDS

It was announced late last week that four undergraduate majors in Linguistics have been honored with HUGRA Awards for 2014-2015. These awards are given by the Humanities Division at UCSC to support and recognize excellence in research by undergraduate students. The awards are made on the basis of a research proposal submitted to the Institute for Humanities Research and adjudicated by a panel of faculty members from across the division. Francisco Delgado won an award for his project on Chamorro Loanword Morphology (advised by Sandy Chung); Eileen O’Neill was recognized for her project on Phonetic and Phonological Change and the Influence of English on Modern Irish (advised by Jaye Padgett); Valery Vanegas was recognized for her project A Study in Voice Quality Using Accelerometers (advised by Grant McGuire) and Jake Vincent for his project on Chamorro Head-Internal Relative Clauses and the Linker (also advised by Sandy Chung). In addition, Jake Vincent’s project was selected to receive the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize, which goes to the most highly rated research proposal in the HUGRA competition each year. Warm congratulations to all.