WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Fifth year student Robert Henderson has just accepted a two year postdoc at McGill University. He will be working with Lisa Travis and Jessica Coon on a SSHRC grant called “The mental representation of language variation: macro- and micro-parameters.” Congrats Robert!
Congratulations to Peter Fabian, who was just awarded a Summer Research Fellowship by the Institute for Humanities Research. The award is for field work in Peru on the Cuzco dialect of Quechua. Congratulations, Peter!
Sandy Chung is back from a two-week trip to the Northern Mariana Islands to work on the NSF-funded Chamorro dictionary revision project. One highlight of her trip was the opportunity to demonstrate the parser developed by Boris Harizanov to the Dictionary working groups on the islands of Tinian and Saipan. Boris’s parser enables users to locate Chamorro words in the revised Dictionary without knowing exactly how to spell them – a boon for a language with two official orthographies and a long history of non-standard spelling systems. Boris skyped in to the Saipan meeting of the dictionary working group to answer questions, and was a great hit.
Jeremy O’Brien will defend his dissertation, “An Experimental Approach to Debuccalization and Supplementary Gestures”, this Friday, May 25th, at 4:00 pm, in the Humanities 1 Building, Room 210. All are welcome to attend.
Many congratulations to the following five students graduating this quarter, who were awarded honors in the major. Well done!
Language Studies
Kathy Bravo
Dana Goodman
Nastassja Myer
Linguistics
Kelsey Kraus
Blake Watkins
The recent Graduate Research Symposium is the topic of this UCSC news item. Our own Allan Schwade, who won the Dean’s Award for the Humanities Division entries, is prominently featured. Well done, Allan!
Many congratulations to Mark Norris, who received two honors last week. First, Mark is our department’s winner of the UCSC Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award this year. Second, Mark is one of two Humanities graduate students at UCSC to be awarded a year-long Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for Humanities Research. Well done, Mark!