Month: March 2021

Language Sciences professors Tom Purnell and Anja Wanner (English) recently appeared on NBC 15 news discussing the spread of new COVID-19 related vocabulary. You can watch the story here: https://www.nbc15.com/2021/03/26/linguists-explain-how-covid-vocabulary-spread-around-the-world

Professor Monica Macaulay is looking for two linguistics majors to be Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students for the academic year 2021-2022. The REU students will be part of the research team on my NSF grant “Comparative Database of Algonquian Derivational Morphology” (see here for the temporary website).   The REU students will gain valuable …

Congratulations to the following Linguistics majors, who have been nominated to join the UW–Madison chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society! Phi Beta Kappa is a national honor society in the Liberal Arts and Sciences that has local chapters in many US Universities. UW–Madison usually inducts about 15o undergraduates per year to our local …