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The Department of LinguisticsElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, a renowned linguist, founded Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute in 2000. A donation of $1 million from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will establish the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship…
Read MoreThe UCLA Linguistics Department is pleased to announce the new Undergraduate Research and Travel Awards. Starting immediately, we will be accepting applications for these awards on a rolling basis to…
Read MorePat Keating is a co-investigator on a new 3-year NSF grant to UCLA, “Variance and invariance in voice quality: Implications for machine and human speaker identification”. In an earlier phase…
Read MoreIara Mantenuto received one of the ten Mellon-EPIC Fellowships in Teaching Excellence for PhD students in the Humanities and History at UCLA for Fall 2017.
Read MoreProf. Benjamin Lewis, lecturer in American Sign Language, has just been named one of three awardees of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty for his outstanding teaching. Prof. Lewis teaches American…
Read MoreProf. Hilda Koopman is a winner of a 2017 Transdisciplinary Seed Grant, along with her collaborators Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) and Yizhou Sun (Computer Science, UCLA Henry Samueli…
Read MoreCongratulations to Travis Major, who was just awarded the Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship. These very competitive fellowships provide funds for travel and living expenses for UCLA graduate students…
Read MoreGraduate Student Margit Bowler has just been chosen as a recipient of the very competitive Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Awards for 2016-17. The College Deans select award…
Read More11 of our graduate students have been awarded the Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program (GSRM), 4 of whom are receiving the GSRM for a second time. The program supports students so that…
Read MoreEd Keenan has recently been awarded the S.-Y. Kuroda prize by MOL (Mathematics of Language), a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The award is in honor…
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