WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
LaLoCo had their meeting at 8:45-10:00 am, on Monday, 02/22, at this Zoom link. They continued the discussion of Chapters 5 and 6 of Rao, D., & McMahan, B. (2019). Natural language processing with PyTorch: build intelligent language applications using deep learning.
Nominations of Humanities faculty for the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award are still open! Current graduate and undergraduate students and recent alumni are invited to nominate faculty for consideration for this annual award.
This award recognizes Humanities faculty for transformative teaching in the liberal arts and effective mentoring of students, both undergraduate and graduate. Nominations are due to the faculty member’s home department by Monday, March 1, 2021. Anyone interested can submit their nomination here (remember to log into your ucsc.edu Google account to use this form).
Applications for David A. Kadish Humanities Scholarship Award are still open! If you’re a UC Santa Cruz undergraduate student with financial need who displays a strong interest in the study of the humanities, you may be eligible for this $2000 award. The application deadline is Friday, April 2, 2021. Anyone interested can submit their application here (remember to log into your ucsc.edu Google account to use this form).
S/lab met at 8:00 am on Tuesday, 02/16, at this Zoom link. Vishal Arvindam presented his work on the processing of reflexives in Telugu.
A tentative schedule can be found here.
R/lab had their third meeting at 9:00 am on Friday, 02/12, at this Zoom link. They discussed Villata, S., Tabor, W., & Franck, J. (2018) Encoding and retrieval interference in sentence comprehension: Evidence from agreement.
Jess Law was selected in fall 2020 for a Global Classrooms award. In 2021-22, Jess will bring together students from UCSC and students from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China in the Global Classroom course The Structure of Chinese Languages. More details can be found here.
Congratulations, Jess!
LaLoCo had their fifth meeting at 8:45-10:00 am, on Monday, 02/08, at this Zoom link. They started the discussion of Chapters 5 of Rao, D., & McMahan, B. (2019). Natural language processing with PyTorch: build intelligent language applications using deep learning.