Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category

Congrats!

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

Sesquikudos

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

Sesquikudos

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

Sesquikudos

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”.

Sesquikudos!

Stanford linguists have been especially noteworthy lately. Congratulations to: