WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
We are proud to pass on the news of two more students entering graduate programs. Tommy Denby, who will receive a Master’s degree from the department this quarter, will enter the Ph.D. program in Linguistics at Northwestern University this Fall. Takashi Morita, an exchange student from Japan at UCSC during 2011-12, will enter the Ph.D. program in Linguistics at MIT this Fall.
Linguistics major Matilda Morrison was one of two Merrill College students chosen to speak at this year’s Merrill College commencement on June 15. Congratulations, Matilda!
The 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium took place last Friday, in its new venue within McHenry Library. Four Linguistics graduate students – Tommy Denby, Peter Fabian, Mark Norris, and Matt Ong – gave posters, and Allan Schwade gave a talk. All of them did a fantastic job. Special congratulations to Allan, who won the Alumni Association Award within Humanities (one of the two awards for Humanities participants) for his presentation, “The Role of Gender in Word Recognition”, and to Mark, who won the Graduate Dean’s Award (one of two awards for all of the participants!) for his poster “Case Concord At The Syntax-Phonology Interface”!
Last week we announced that one of our students won the Humanities-wide Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. Correction! Three of our students received the award. They are Matilda Morrison, Emma Peoples, and Nicholas Primrose. It is also worth mentioning that this is Matilda’s second Dean’s Award for a research project. (!) All three will be honored at the “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2013” Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 30th, 3-5 pm in Humanities 1, rooms 202 and 210. The department is proud of all three of you, and we apologize for the editorial slip.
Many Congratulations to Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, a junior Linguistics major in the BA/MA program, who was awarded a fellowship to attend this summer’s Linguistic Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. These fellowships are very competitive, and to receive one is an honor. Scarlett plans to take such courses as Computational Psycholinguistics, and Sentences and the Social: Representing Syntactic Variation.
The department is always excited to hear about its students entering graduate programs! Here are some that we know about so far for next Fall.
Caroline Andrews (B.A. 2012) will enter the Ph.D. program in Linguistics at UMass Amherst. Elliott Callahan (B.A. 2006) will enter the M.D. program at UCSF’s School of Medicine. Evan Kaiser (B.A. 2012) will enter the TESOL program at SFSU. Michelle Laszlo-Rath (B.A. 2011) will enter the Speech Language Pathology program at the University of Memphis. Brittni Newman (B.A. 2010) will enter the post-bac program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Chapman University. Mallory Turnball (B.A. 2011) will enter the Speech-Language Pathology program at San Jose State University.
Congratulations to all of you! We know there are more of you out there too – if you have news, please tell whasc!
The department is proud to announce that one of its students, Nicholas Primrose, has won the Humanities-wide Dean’s Undergraduate Award for his research project titled “Japanese Numerals and Numeral Quantifiers”. Nicholas will be honored at the “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2013” Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 30th, 3-5 pm in Humanities 1, rooms 202 and 210. Well done, Nicholas!