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Congratulations to our Linguistics students who received awards this year from the Linguistic Society of America! We had multiple undergraduates and one graduate student receiving awards this year – wow! The following undergraduate Linguistics majors won a Committee on Ethnic Diverstiy in Linguistics (CEDL) Travel Grant: The CEDL Travel grant provides up to $1000 to …

The Linguistics Student Org has announced dates for the upcoming WiGL (Workshop in General Linguistics): the 19th annual meeting of our student conference will be Friday-Saturday March 14-15 in 2025, followed by online workshops on Sunday March 16. Abstracts for papers or workshops are due by January 17, 2025. See the Call for Papers for …

Language Sciences is delighted to announce that Lang Sci Director Professor Rajiv Rao (Spanish & Portuguese) has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist Program award to India! The purpose of this program, according to the Fulbright Specialist website, is to “send U.S. faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning, …

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 …