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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …