Congratulations to our 2019 graduates!

We congratulate our 2019 Linguistics graduates!Doctor of PhilosophyShohini BhattasaliAndrew JosephHankyul KimEkarina WinartoBachelor of ArtsJavier Agredo (magna cum laude)Lavanya AprameyaAnya HarterMarissa HollHannah PeirceRoberto Romeu (cum laude)Benjamin SteeperJohn TrujilloLeah WankCatherine So Young YooMinorVarun Biddanda...

Shohini Bhattasali Accepts PostDoc

Shohini Bhattasali is graduating with a Ph.D. in Linguistics and a graduate minor in Cognitive Science, after having successfully defended her dissertation, "A Neurolinguistic Approach to Noncompositionality and Argument Structure". While at Cornell, she has been active in the Cornell Linguistics Circle and served as president. She has also...

Moroney awarded Engaged Cornell Grant

Eighteen Cornell doctoral students have received 2019-20 Engaged Graduate Student Grants totaling $269,397, which will support community-engaged research relevant to their dissertations.Coming from 13 fields of study, grantees are collaborating with communities around the world, including artists of color in Chicago, deported migrants in...

Eighteen receive Engaged Graduate Student Grants

Eighteen Cornell doctoral students have received 2019-20 Engaged Graduate Student Grants totaling $269,397, which will support community-engaged research relevant to their dissertations.

VP Opperman: Staff graduates met their challenges with ‘gusto’

Thirty-three university staff members were recognized for earning academic degrees at the 23rd annual Staff Graduate Reception, May 20 in the Hall of Fame Room in Friends Hall.

Two Cornell staff members are receiving bachelor’s degrees from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Nineteen are receiving Cornell master’s degrees, two are receiving doctorates, and 10 are receiving degrees in higher education from other colleges and universities.

Senior Profiles

Javier Agredo: https://as.cornell.edu/news/javier-agredo-take-plenty-fun-classes-and-study-abroad-if-you-can Leah Wank: https://as.cornell.edu/news/leah-wank-many-ways-my-cornell-experience-has-been-shaped-study-foreign-languages

Cornell Dining Worker Assists with Field Methods Class

Professors Sarah Murray and Abby Cohn were assisted by Bey Sisouphone, a dining hall worker in Alice Cook House and a native of Laos. This spring's Field Methods class has focused on the Lao language, and Sisouphone has been the native speaker consultant for the class.Excerpts from the Cornell Daily Sun article:“I like to teach people how to...

‘I created my own path and embraced uncertainty'

Varun Biddanda

Spanish & Biological Sciences

Grand Haven, MI

What was your favorite class and why?

Leah Wank: ‘In many ways, my Cornell experience has been shaped by the study of foreign languages’

Leah Wank

Linguistics, French

Wheaton, Illinois 

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Grants bolster social sciences research

The ISS’s Spring 2019 Small Grant Awards are designed to assist scholars as they develop new research and seek external funding.