Year: 2023

On March 1, 2023 over 500 Wisconsin high school students visited UW–Madison for the biennial Languages of the World Day, organized by The Language Institute. The students participated in interactive workshops with language faculty and staff, including a couple of people from Lang Sci! Linguistics PhD student Charlotte Vanhecke, who works as a Dutch TA, …

Congratulations to English and Language Sciences professor Jacee Cho, who was awarded a prestigious Vilas Associates award for 2023-2024! The Vilas Associates award supports faculty research at UW–Madison in a wide variety of disciplines. Awardees are chosen from a pool of applicants based on a detailed research proposal. The grant provides funding that faculty can …

In this recent article by Aaron Conklin, Dianna Murphy (The Language Institute) and Professors Joe Salmons (Language Sciences) and Tom Purnell (English and Language Sciences) discuss the efforts of the new Language Ideologies and Language Discrimination working group. The group hopes to combat language discrimination on campus by educating and raising awareness about language and …