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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ryan Henke, who is the 2021 recipient of the Mary R. Haas Book Award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). This award recognizes outstanding research by a …

We had a large number of Linguistics majors honored with an invitation to join the UW-Madison chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society this year! This round of nominees included: Fiona Freeman Moulik Mehta …

Photo credits: Miranda Vescio Final presentations were in full swing this week in our senior capstone course. In this small and interactive course, Linguistics majors spend a semester working closely with a professor to develop …

Language Sciences will be offering a Badger Summer Scholars course as part of the Badger Precollege program – giving high school students from across the U.S. and the world an opportunity to explore college life …

Our Linguistics Fridays Colloquia series is back this Fall, with a slight time shift to 3:00 pm. The weekly colloquia will remain online for the time being, with a tentative plan to transition to in …

Itegrative Biology graduate student Sterling Martin and Post-doc Joanna Bundus co-founded the ENABLE project, which is working on translating a collection of technical biological terms into Diné bízaad (Navajo).

Language Sciences is pleased to welcome Rajiv Rao as our next Director, effective July 1st 2021. Dr. Rao received his PhD from the University of California-Davis, and began his faculty career at Northern Illinois University. He subsequently moved to UW-Madison in 2009. Dr. Rao is currently an associate professor in …

Linguistics/Computer Science double major Alex Peseckis is the most recent student to be interviewed in the Computer Science double major feature series. In the interview, Alex talks about the synergy between his two majors, and …

The 27th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) is taking place from May 12-14, 2021. The conference is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is taking place online this year. A variety of UW-Madison students, …