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Phlunch will have their meeting at 2:00 pm, Thursday, 1/21 at this Zoom link. Maxwell Kaplan will present his work on hiatus and syntax-prosody in Ojibwe.

Nominations of Humanities faculty for the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award have started! 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 have started! 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).

LaLoCo had their first meeting at 8:45-10:00 am, on Monday, 1/11, at this Zoom link. Stephanie Rich led the discussion of the first two chapters of  Rao, D., & McMahan, B. (2019). Natural language processing with PyTorch: build intelligent language applications using deep learning. Please let Adrian Brasoveanu know if you are interested and want to receive their e-mails.

WLMA had their first meeting at 1:00 Pm on Monday, 1/11, at this Zoom link. They spent some time discussing the schedule for the quarter, found here. Please let Benjamin Eischens know if you are interested and want to be on the mailing list.

S/lab will have their first meeting at 8:00 am on Tuesday, 1/12, at this Zoom link. It will be a planning meeting, so please bring ideas for paper presentations or research projects you would like to workshop or present.

Information about the following meetings will be sent out to the s/lab mailing list. Please let Lalitha Balachandran or Anelia Kudin know if you are interested and want to be on the mailing list.

Phlunch will have their meeting at 2:00 pm, Thursday, 1/14 at this Zoom link. Grant McGuire will lead the discussion of Barreda (2020) “Vowel normalization as perceptual constancy”  Please let Max J. Kaplan know if you want to be in their cohort.