College of Letters & Science
Grant Armstrong, Associate Professor in Spanish & Portuguese and Language Sciences, was awarded an H.I. Romnes fellowship starting in 2024-2025. This award recognizes early career tenured faculty for their outstanding research contributions. Congratulations to Professor Armstrong on this well-deserved honor! Read more about all of the 2024-2025 faculty fellowship recipients here.
Language Sciences is hiring a student Multimedia Intern. $15/hour, flexible hours, approximately 3-5 hours per week. The job duties would be flexible depending on the skills and interests of the student we hire, but could include things like writing news articles/conducting interviews with faculty and students about their research, making posters, taking photos at …
An opportunity is available for two students to work on the project Culture Across the Waves: Supporting Global Irish Heritage Learners, funded by an Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant. Irish Language online module development Timeframe: October 1, 2024 – June 15, 2025 Workload: 4-5 hours per week, flexible hours, work …
Professor K.D. Thompson spoke on University of the Air on Wisconsin Public Radio on August 4, 2024 about the importance and diversity of African languages. You can hear the full interview here: https://www.wpr.org/shows/university-air/celebrating-african-languages
Religious Studies and Language Sciences Professor Katrina Daly Thompson was featured in a recent edition of the Letters & Sciences magazine. The article “Speaking Volumes” by Katie Vaughn highlights Thompson’s creation of the innovative Multilanguage Seminar in the Department of African Cultural Studies, a flexible course designed to allow students to make progress in a …
Congratulations to 3rd year Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller who received a well-deserved Graduate Student Service Scholarship this year! This award from the Graduate School recognizes and honors graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. Jae was nominated due to their outstanding and inspiring …
Our undergraduate students are as usual up to lots of good and interesting things! Here are a few note- and applause-worthy updates from undergrads: Incredibly proud of these and all of our students – congratulations everyone!
Photo credits: David Daum The 18th Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) took place at UW–Madison Friday-Saturday 4/12-4/13, and was a great success! (WiGL) is a student conference which has been organized by the Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) annually since 2003. The workshop provides a platform for graduate (and undergraduate!) students in linguistics to present and …
The Sign Language Lab at the University of Wisconsin is looking for a research coordinator/lab manager! Full job posting: Research Coordinator – Sign Language Lab – Madison, Wisconsin, United States A little bit more about the job and the lab: The Sign Language Lab has several projects underway that involve video coding and …
Congratulations to English/Language Sciences Professor Anja Wanner on being a 2024 recipient of the Hilldale Award! The Hilldale Awards recognize faculty contributions to teaching, research, and service. Professor Wanner is one of four recipients in 2024. Read more at the story here: Meet the winners of the 2024 Hilldale Awards (wisc.edu)