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 announce the Spring 2013 graduates who have received honors in the major. Congratulations to Lila Hunt, Chaney Janssen, and Julie Yeager for receiving honors in the Language Studies major. Congratulations to Jacob Gimbel, Emma Peoples, and Jacob Victoria for receiving honors in the Linguistics major. Well done!
Congratulations to Clara Sherley-Appel, who has just received a Summer Research Grant from the Institute for Humanities Research!
The Department is delighted to announce that Linguistics Ph.D. student Oliver Northrup has received an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Only a small number of graduate students across the campus are honored with this award each year. Congratulations, Oliver!
Congratulations to Allan Schwade, who successfully defended his qualifying paper, “An Experimental Investigation of the Perception and Production Accounts of Loanword Adaptation”. The committee members where Adrian Brasoveanu, Armin Mester, and Jaye Padgett (chair). Congratulations also to Matthew Ong, who successfully defended his MA thesis “Strict and Sloppy Reflexives in VP-Ellipsis” His committee consisted of Adrian Brasoveanu (Chair), Pranav Anand, and Matt Wagers.
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”!