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Students can now minor in ASL, take advantage of an expanded set of upper-level classes, participate in a number of ASL events on campus and be part of an active student club.
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Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
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Robin Karlin, Ph.D. '18, Accepts Assistant Professor Position at University of Missouri
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Rachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/07/dean-jayawardhana-named-provost-johns-hopkins
The Cornell Department of Linguistics is hosting a conference on the linguistics of Latin, the Sabellic languages, and Venetic.
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The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & Sciences investigators.
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Linguistics faculty have been awarded funding for several new grants in 2023.
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Three students in the Nexus Scholars Program will be participating in research projects in the Department of Linguistics in Summer 2023.
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The 2023 Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award was awarded to Kevin Kwong, a Ph.D. student in Linguistics who has studied Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish, and Khmer as part of the Shared Course Initiative. The award is named in memory of our friend and colleague Lisa Sansoucy, who passed away in December of 2021. It recognizes a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language.
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Forrest Davis, Ph.D. '22, has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Computer Science department at Colgate University, beginning Fall 2023. Congratulations, Forrest!
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Cassidy Langenfeld is a linguistics major.
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These awards include funding for a conference, a superdepartment grant supporting collaboration in psychology, and 17 grants that will jump-start research across campus.
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Jennifer Kuo, currently finishing her Ph.D. at the University of California Los Angeles, will join the department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023.
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The first two classes of American Sign Language (ASL 1101 and ASL 1102) will be offered in Summer 2023 through the School of Continuing Education.
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Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet describes her Linguistics experiences and what she hopes for the future of Linguistics.
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A new book by linguist Michael Weiss provides the first pedagogical grammar ever compiled for Tocharian B, an ancient Indo-European language.
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"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
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Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its seventeenth annual undergraduate research colloquium.
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Interest in ASL is growing, prompting Cornell to increase opportunities for students to explore the language.
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Two recently-hired faculty in the Department of Linguistics are expanding the use of computer modeling and experimental techniques as they forge new paths of research in the discipline.
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Sireemas Maspong has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She will be working with Prof. James Kirby, Professor of Spoken Language Processing. She will be joining the department in April 2023, after having successfully defended her dissertation in November 2022.
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Francesco Burroni Accepts Postdoctoral Fellow Position at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), LMU Munich
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The two are among five winners of the inaugural Robert S. Harrison ’76 Recent Alumni Volunteer Awards.
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Linda Heimisdottir, Ph.D. '15, is the New COO at Miðeind ehf
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Becky Butler, Ph.D. '14, Helps Secure Grant for UNC's Southeast Asian Studies
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"Welcoming students to campus and providing them with the opportunity to connect to faculty and each other is a joy."
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Seung-Eun Kim has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University.
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Storyteller and comedian Cassie Simmons will perform narrations centered around her growing up as an African-American, Deaf woman in Detroit in a Nov. 28 American Sign Language Literature Series event in Klarman Hall.
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Opinion piece by Halle Swasing in the Cornell Daily Sun: ASL at Cornell: It’s More Than a Language.
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The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
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The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
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Six American Sign Language (ASL) poets and storytellers will visit Cornell between Oct. 12 and Nov. 28, in conjunction with this semester’s ASL Literature course.
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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At the end of 2021, Words Matter: Meaning and Power (Cambridge, 2020) by Sally McConnell-Ginet, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, was selected by Choice Reviews as one of the best academic books of 2021. In late July 2022, the Choice website highlighted five of its “Outstanding Academic Titles” on the topic of words and language, and Words Matter headed the list.
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Rachel Vogel Starting Yale Law School in Fall 2022
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Shohini Bhattasali, Ph.D. '19, Accepts Position at University of Toronto
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Brenda Schertz Awarded Sophie Washburn French Instructorship
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Sam Tilsen Awarded Cornell New Frontier Grant
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Mia Gong Accepts Position at University of California, Santa Cruz
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Lingzi Zhuang Accepts Position at University of Toronto
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"These faculty members and graduate teaching assistants have made tremendous contributions for the benefit of our students, guiding their educational paths and molding their experiences."
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The College has awarded seven New Frontier Grants totaling $1.25 million to faculty members pursuing critical developments in areas across sciences and humanities.
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The first two classes of American Sign Language (ASL 1101 and ASL 1102) will be offered in Summer 2022 through the School of Continuing Education.
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Forrest Davis Accepts Postdoctoral Associate Position at MIT
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Juan Cancel is a linguistics major.
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A new Cornell study by Klarman Fellow Amalia Skilton is the largest ever, by sample size, of early vocabulary development in an Indigenous language.
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Katie Blake Accepts Position at Amazon Alexa AI
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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