UW-Madison Professor Brian McInnes (SOHE) talks about how Ojibwe language revitalization efforts have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in this recent Badger Herald article: Language revitalization efforts for Ojibwe continue despite COVID-19 challenges – …
Year: 2021
New Language Career Course
A new career and professionalization course aimed at undergraduates with a background in language study is launching this Fall. African 275: Lead with Language – Putting Language Skills to Work is a 1-credit course which …
COVID vocabulary
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/
Undergraduate Research Positions Available
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 …
Linguistics major Phi Beta Kappa nominees
Congratulations to the following Linguistics majors, who have been nominated to join the UW-Madison chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society! Rachel Fedorchak Elena Groves Jason Jenson Phi Beta Kappa is a national honor …
Caroline Niziolek joins Lang Sci faculty
We are happy to welcome Professor Caroline Niziolek (Communication Sciences & Disorders) to the Language Sciences faculty! Dr. Niziolek conducts research on the Neurolinguistics of speech, focusing on the relationship between auditory processing and motor …
Linguistics Fridays Colloquia – Spring 2021 Schedule
Our Linguistics Fridays Colloquia series is back this Spring, with a great lineup of diverse and interesting talks. Talks or reading groups are held (almost) every Friday from 4:00-5:00 between February 26-April 30. Linguistics Fridays …
UW-Madison Linguists at MidPhon 2021
Several UW-Madison language science graduate students will be presenting their research at the upcoming MidPhon 25 conference, held in a virtual format this year, and organized by hosts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. …