Rutgers grad students and faculty win awards
Sarah Murray has won the highly competitive philanthropic educational organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award. Recipients of these awards are selected based on scholarly excellence, academic achievements and career goals, recommendations, and the potential of the applicant to make a significant contribution to her field. Sarah plans to use the award money to support her continuing fieldwork on Cheyenne, an endangered Algonquian language, in the summers of 2008 and 2009.
Daniel Altshuler was one of four graduate students from Rutgers awarded a Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) fellowship for 2008-2009. Daniel will attend and lead workshops concerning pedagogical issues.
Paul de Lacy has been awarded a Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. His award letter cited him as "one of the university's most distinguished young faculty members".
Mark Baker has received a Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research. This marks the second year in a row that one of our faculty has won this honor.
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| New faculty member: Shigeto Kawahara
Shigeto Kawahara will join our faculty in the fall. Shigeto is a phonetician who specializes in the phonology- phonetics interface and speech perception. His recent work includes perceptual experiments and acoustic studies of intonation. He has also published on semantics, theoretical phonology, the syntax-phonology interface, as well as hip hop lyrics and puns. His papers are sorted by subject here.
As a faculty member, Shigeto will be teaching phonetics, experimental design, and speech pathology, among other topics. He will co-direct the new linguistics speech laboratory.
[via Paul de Lacy]
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New students for Fall 08
The following students have accepted our offers to come study at Rutgers Linguistics next Fall:
Elizabeth Mazzocco, Inna Goldberg, Eric Wirkerman, Peter Staroverov and Matthew Barros
Thank you to all those that helped in this recruitment campaign. A special thanks for the students who volunteered in hosting our visitors and thank you in advance for your efforts in welcoming these new students and helping them to settle at Rutgers.
[via Viviane Déprez]
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Smith headed to graduate school
Brian Smith (Rutgers, 2008) will be at the University of Massachussets, Amherst starting next fall. He will be pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics. Stay up Brian and keep up the good work!
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RULing III The third annual Rutgers Linguistics Conference (RULing III) will
take place on Saturday, May 10th 2008. In addition to presentations
from Rutgers graduate students, the conference will feature an invited
lecture by Prof. Ken Safir.
For more information on the conference as well as a schedule of talks, click here.
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HUMDRUM 2008 report
The annual joint meeting of UMass, Johns Hopkins, and Rutgers students was hosted by Rutgers on April 26 and 27. The twelve talks included presentations by five Rutgers graduate students and one undergraduate. Faculty from JHU, UMass, and Yale joined the discussion. Topics included harmonic serialism and parallelism, optionality, algorithmic learning, stress-segmental and syntax-semantics interactions, derivation of segmental and prosodic universals, and phonetic realization; these were approached through studies of stress, segmental phonology, multiple wh-fronting, morphology and prosodic morphology. A special session, with participants from UMass and Rutgers, dealt with the use of software tools in OT analysis.
For more information, click here.
[via Alan Prince & Paul de Lacy]
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Rutgers faculty spreading wisdom around the globe
Veneeta Dayal will be an invited speaker at the Workshop on Free Choiceness: Facts, Models and Problems, ESSLLI, Hamburg (August 11-16). She will be speaking on “What Counts as Free Choice and What Doesn’t”. For more information, click here.
Matthew Stone will be teaching a course called "computing communicative intentions" at the LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics) summer school, July 7-11. For more information, click here.
Mark Baker will be teaching a two week course at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain from May 20 to May 30.
Check out the Events section of SNARL for more details on upcoming summer schools around the world.
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Slavica Kochovska has received a grant for next year from the "Ad Futura" foundation in Slovenia. She will be a Visiting Assistant Professor next year, teaching at the School of Humanities, at the
