Category: Faculty News

Jaye Padgett visited New York University last week, presenting a colloquium talk entitled “Explaining Dispersion Effects”, as well as a presentation to the phonetics lab on his joint work with Ryan Bennett and Grant McGuire on an ultrasound study of Irish palatalization. He and a friend happened upon the David Letterman studio (see photo) Thursday afternoon and joined the waiting list on a whim. They were 56th and 57th on the list, but only 55 waitlisters were let in.

Congratulations to Matt Wagers, who has been awarded funding from the Hellman Fellows Program. The purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support the research of “promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research.” Congratulations, Matt!

The Institute for Humanities Research recently announced its funded Research Clusters (funded by the UC Humanities Network) for the 2011-2012 year. These include two Linguistics endeavors:

Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP)

• Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
• Vera Gribanova, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Stanford
• Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group (SCLP)

• Adrian Brasoveanu, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
• Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics
• Jonathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy