Week of August 15, 2016 - Announcements

HONORS

C.-T. James Huang honored by Taiwan's Academia Sinica

In early July, Professor C.-T. James Huang joined the 2016 list of Academicians of Taiwan's Academia Sinica.  This is the most prestigious academic honor awarded by the preeminent scholarly institution in Taiwan. 

The Academia Sinica holds its convocation biennially.  This year only three of the five nominees to the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences were elected.  Here is the official announcement.  Congratulations, Jim!

NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

For the first time, the Department of Linguistics is offering American Sign Language (ASL, Linguistics 73a and 73b) courses this year. Please read about this exciting development here and visit the course descriptions here.

New instructors for 2016-17 join the Department

We wish to welcome the following new additions to our teaching staff:

Jenneke van der Wal, Lecturer on Linguistics

Aleksei Nazarov, Lecturer on Linguistics

Yimei Xiang, College Fellow

New Head Tutor of the Department beginning 2016-17

Professor Kathryn Davidson will be our Head Tutor starting this fall.  Dorothy Ahn continues as Assistant Head Tutor.