The New Sesquipedalian

We extend our heartiest congratulations (and think you should too) to the following people:

• Matt Adams, who received a DAAD — Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – research fellowship. He’ll be conducting research next year at the University of Düsseldorf, working with Ingo Plag
• Alum John Beavers received a teaching award, and has also been promoted to associate professor. Read more here!
• Alum Lauren Hall-Lew also received a teaching honor, an award from the Edinburgh University Students Association.

Many of our colleagues and alumni keep doing noteworthy things! Here are some of the recent ones:

• Roey Gafter received a RICSRE Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
• Kate Geenberg received a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship
• Kyu won Moon received a Geballe Dissertation Fellowship
• Bonnie Krejci was awarded a fellowship for the Linguistic Institute at University of Michigan this summer
• BA alum Joshua Falk, currently a Baggett Fellow at University of Maryland, was just awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• PhD alum Judith Tonhauser has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler from the Humboldt foundation

To Tom Wasow, who as of last week is the Secretary of Section Z for the AAAS.

To all of the following:

• Annie Zaenen, who had this Festschrift published in her honor. Many current and former Stanford folks contributed!
• Brad Davidson (PhD, 1998), who over a year ago was promoted to General Manager at Ogilvy CommonHealth Behavioral Insights, a division of Ogilvy and Mather. CommonHealth’s work is healthcare communications, an area Brad delved into in his dissertation, Interpreting Medical Discourse: A Study of Communication in a Hospital Clinic. Read more here.
• Janneke Van Hofwegen, who received the 2013 Presidential Honorary Membership Award at the American Dialect Society Annual meeting at the LSA in Boston – awarded to students who have “promise of continuing contributions to our field and to the American Dialect Society”.

Stanford linguists have been especially noteworthy lately. Congratulations to:

• Paul Kiparsky, who was awarded the 2012 Language Research Prize by the Swedish Academy
• Chris Manning, who was elected vice-president of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Alum Ashwini Deo, who is co-PI on an NSF grant titled INSPIRE: The underpinnings of Semantic change: A Linguistic, Cognitive, and Information-Theoretic Investigation
• Herbert Clark, of Psychology and Professor-by-courtesy in Linguistics, who was awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctorat honoris causa) at the University of Neuchâtel on November 3, 2012. (In Germany, he now has the truly frightening title Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Herbert H. Clark.)