Celebrating Our Seniors!

We congratulate the Class of 2020 and look forward to celebrating your hard work during Cornell's Commencement!

Hometown: Chino Hills, California

Major: Linguistics and Mathematics

Activities: Yamatai (taiko drumming), Underlings, and Cornell Piano Society

Favorite classes in Linguistics: History of Romance Languages (3321-2), History of Japanese (4411), Morphology (4423), Typology (4400), Pragmatics (4425).

Favorite moments in Lingusitics: holding CULC, Underlings dinners and socials, and department picnics

photo credit: Lindsay Fei

Hometown: Staunton, VA

Major: Linguistics
Minors:  French and Business

Honors and Awards: Dean's List

Activities: Protestant Cooperative Ministry

Favorite moments in Linguistics: Historical linguistics with professor Weiss, Cayuga, class discussions in language and society. Abby Cohn was a great advisor. 

Hometown: Lancaster, PA

Major: Linguistics

Honors and Awards: Tanner Dean’s Scholar Program, Dean’s List

Activities:  Cornell Chimes, Chamber Singers, Glee Club, and Protestant Cooperative Ministry

Favorite moments in Linguistics: I’ve really enjoyed working with Miloje Despić and Michael Weiss as my faculty advisor and research advisor, respectively. My favorite class was Intro to Indo-European Linguistics.

photo credit: Hannah Dahl

Hometown: Ellicottville, NY

Major: Linguistics

Honors and Awards: Dean’s List

Activities: Editor in chief, CU Nooz; research

Favorite moments in Linguistics: I've really loved our discussions in Prof. Whitman's typology class, as well as trudging through obscure grammars of obscure languages for typology papers. Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics with Andrew were a blast! God bless Mia's handouts in 3303. I also loved going to colloquium talks!

Future Plans: MPhil in Theoretical and Applies Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Hometown: Downingtown, PA

Majors: Psychology
Minor: Linguistics and Computer Science

Honors and Awards: James E. Rice, Jr. Award for Excellent Expository Writing

Activities: Cornell University Wind Symphony, living in a co-op on campus

Favorite moments in Linguistics: laughing about capybaras and krummhorns in Molly Diesing's class, learning to pronounce new sounds in Intro to Phonetics and Phonology

Hometown: West Windsor, NJ

Majors: Computer Science, College Scholar
Minor: Linguistics

Activities: Association of Computer Science Undergraduates (ACSU), Midnight Comedy Troupe

Favorite classes: Intro to Linguistics and Pragmatics, both with Professor Murray

photo credit: Ellaine Chou

Hometown: Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada / Tokyo, Japan / Beijing, China

Major: Computer Science
Minor: Linguistics and Music

Activities: Cornell University Glee Club, The Hangovers A Cappella

Favorite classes in Linguistics: LING 1101 and LING 4400

Favorite moments in Linguistics: Learning about the *dw- > jerək‐ sound change in Intro to Historical Linguistics

Hometown: Suffern, NY

Majors:  Music and Computer Science
Minor: Linguistics

Honors and Awards: Tanner Dean Scholar, Dean's List, Howard Milstein Award, and graduating cum laude in Music

Activities: Cornell Wind Symphony, Big Red Marching/Pep Band, Alpha Phi Omega (co-ed service fraternity)

Favorite moments in Linguistics: Some of my favorite classes at Cornell have been the classes I've taken for the minor, including Intro to Linguistics and Morphology I with Miloje Despic, and Intro to Syntax and Semantics with Molly Diesing. I especially loved learning about Molly's turtles (I hope Hildegard is doing well). 

photo credit: Yoonie Chang

Major: Linguistics

Major: Linguistics, pre-med

Majors: Linguistics and French

Majors: Linguistics and Government

Majors: Linguistics, Classics, and Spanish
MInor: Computer Science

Michael Golden

Majors: Linguistics and Applied Mathematics

Majors: Linguistics and Computer Science

Major: Computer Science
Minor: Linguistics

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Minor: Linguistics

Major: Computer Science
Minor: Linguistics

Major: Computer Science
Minor: Linguistics

Major: Biology
Minor: Linguistics