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Recently returned to in-person instruction, a unique Cornell class introduces students to the language and culture of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ, or Cayuga, people, on whose homelands Cornell stands.
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its twentieth annual undergraduate research colloquium.
The Cornell Center for Social Sciences has selected 10 faculty members, including several from A&S, as 2026–27 Faculty Fellows, providing course release and funding to support interdisciplinary social science research with real-world impact.
Four faculty from A&S have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching.
Charlotte Logan, Ph.D. '25, Accepts Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto
Student group ASL@Cornell places first in Cornell Lingua Mater 2025
The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.
Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.
Milena Šereikaitė, Linguistics
Ten students who participated in this summer's Nexus Scholars Program share their stories..
Linguist Marten van Schijndel co-led a session on “Responsible LLMs & Issues” at the summit.
Milena Šereikaitė, a theoretical linguist specializing in syntax and morphology, will join the department as Assistant Professor in Fall 2025
Burak Öney and John Starr win Arts & Sciences awards. John Starr and Charlotte Logan win Provost Diversity Fellowship. Youngdong Cho, Yao Zhang, and Fengyue Lisa Zhao win East Asia Program fellowships.
Among those being recognized for exceptional teaching and mentorship this year are faculty members Begüm Adalet, Claudia Verhoeven, and Marcelo Aguiar.
Celia Doherty is majoring in linguistics.
Students who want an immersive on-campus experience with American Sign Language (ASL) can now sign up to live in the Language House.
The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language.
Jing Gao, Ph.D. '24, Accepts Special Associate Research Fellow Position at the South China Normal University
Jasmim Drigo, Ph.D. ’24, Accepts Postdoctoral Researcher Position at the University of Galway
Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its nineteenth annual undergraduate research colloquium.
The JK32 organizing committee is pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference to be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, on June 13 – 15, 2025.
Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.
The Department of Linguistics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that the 34th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) will be held May 16th-19th, 2025 in Ithaca, NY, USA.
Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to Nielson Hul, Linguistics Ph.D. candidate, who has been selected to head the Khmer Language Program at the University of Washington at Seattle.
To celebrate Cornell’s commitment to fostering global literacy and cross-cultural understanding, the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts and Sciences will host World Languages Day on Oct. 26.
Congratulations to graduate student Charlotte Logan on winning the Elouise Cobell Dissertation Fellowship in 2024.
Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
We wish the best of luck to our Class of 2024.
Professor Emeritus Wayles Browne's book, The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics, is now available through Cambridge Publishing.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Now offered as a minor, the study of ASL at Cornell came about through years of student advocacy
Emily Pecsok is an applied mathematics and linguistics major.
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has awarded five New Frontier Grants to cutting edge projects in science, social science and the humanities led by A&S faculty.
The ASL Program at Cornell is featured in this article in Cornell's alumni publication, Cornellians.
Hitomi Minamida, Ph.D. ’23, has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
“Any poem, any language” is the theme of the Language Resource Center’s second annual celebration of National Poetry Month, April 17
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Margarita Amalia Suñer, professor of linguistics emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died in Ojai, California on Feb. 29 after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.
Linguistics Professor Sarah Murray and Research Associate Stephen Henhawk are featured in this article by the Cornell Daily Sun.
The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), co-founded by alum Daniel Kaufman Ph.D. 2010, locates speakers of endangered languages spoken in New York City.
First year Linguistics graduate student Annabelle di Lustro recently participated in the KAKEHASHI Project, an exchange program for young American researchers to visit Japan, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA).
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its eighteenth annual undergraduate research colloquium. By facilitating communication and discussion between researchers, the conference aims to promote undergraduate research at all levels throughout the linguistics community.
Several current Linguistics grads presented at the 2024 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.
Mei was one of the most important Chinese historical linguists of the 20th century.