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Z.L. Zhou has been appointed Interim Student Representative to the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America, serving through December 2022. Congratulations Z.L., and thank you for serving our professional society!

To be held on May 9th

Jeremy Steffman (PhD, 2020) has accepted an offer as Lecturer in Phonetics (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the US) in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, the University of Edinburgh, UK. Congratulations, Jeremy!!! Jeremy is currently a postdoc at Northwestern University and he will start the Lecturer position in June 2023.

The UCLA Linguistics Department will be the host for the 2022 Annual Meeting in Phonology, the premier conference in the USA for this field of linguistics. The dates are October 21-23, 2022. Current plans are to meet live in Royce Hall at UCLA. For full information visit the conference website at https://linguistics.ucla.edu/amp2022/.

Upcoming: June 10- 11 2022 MaS2 (Morphology as Syntax) Workshop (online). 9am-12:30pm PDT Check https://mas2-workshop.humspace.ucla.edu/ for program and registration.

We are delighted to announce that Meg Cychosz (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2020) has accepted our offer to join our department as an assistant professor beginning July 2023. Meg is currently an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland. Her research concerns speech development, especially by children…

Recent Ph.D. Canaan Breiss has accepted a tenure-track job as an Assistant Professor in the USC Department of Linguistics. We look forward to having Canaan in town!  Canaan is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory at MIT under Roger Levy.