Congratulations are in order for Gabby Magana, who received a Dean’s Award of Merit, celebrating her many valuable contributions to the Department of Linguistics and the Symbolic Systems Program over the past 6 years. Way to go, Gabby!
Also, Roey Gafter just received grants from both the Graduate Research Opportunity Fund and the Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity Fund. Good job, Roey!
Congratulations to Sven Lauer and Stephanie Shih for receiving Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowships for 2012-2013!
Congratulations are also in order for Ashwini Deo, who received her PhD from our department in 2006. She will be spending next year at UT Austin on a Harrington Fellowship.
Stanford alum Emily Bender was the LINGUIST List’s Linguist of the Day on Tuesday, the 13th.
When did she first realize that she was a linguist?…
“In one sense, I’ve been a linguist for just about as long as I can remember. But for a long time, I didn’t actually know it.”
If that piques your interest, read the full article!
Sesquipedikudos to Penny Eckert, who has just been elected a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. This is hot off the presses, so we don’t know yet who the other members of this year’s `class’ are . (But we know they’re all distinguished!)
A hearty round of sesquipedicongratulations to two of our Linguistics majors, Aya Inamori and Miriam Connor, who are being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa this year! The award ceremony will be on Friday 10 June.
Sesquipedicongratulations to Uriel Cohen Priva, who’s been selected as one of this year’s Centennial TAs!
This annual Centennial Teaching Award program acknowledges and celebrates the important role that teaching assistants play at Stanford. It was started by Professor Ewart Thomas in 1989 to honor TAs that show exceptional commitment to, and excellence in, teaching.
Jasmine S. Hu, a Junior with majors in Comparative Literature and Linguistics, has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship worth $34,000. The Beinecke Scholarship Program seeks to encourage highly motivated students to be courageous in their selection of graduate study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. About 100 schools are invited by the Beinecke Scholarship Program to nominate a student each year. This year, there were a total of 80 nominations, and Jasmine is one of 20 students nationwide to receive this award. In her comparative literature and linguistics course work, she is looking into a wide range of cultures, periods, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary study, and is probing the question of how different languages and cultures shape different modes of thinking.
Congratulations, Jasmine!
[Thanks, Arto!]