Week of April 1
LangCog
The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, April 2nd from 5:30-7:00pm! It will take place in William James Hall, Room #1550. Our speaker next week is Dr. Samer Nour Eddine (Tufts), and the title and abstract of his talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on their website.
Title: Dynamic duo: Insights from a dual-unit predictive coding model of lexico-semantic processing
Abstract: here
Helen Lewis winning the 2024 Dean’s Distinction award
The FAS announced the 2024 Dean’s Distinction recipients and our very own Helen Lewis is awarded as an individual recipient! This award recognizes exceptional staff members for their outstanding citizenship, collaboration, and contribution in support of excellence in the FAS community. The 2024 nomination pool was extremely strong, with the recipients representing less than 20% of the nominations we received. Well done and huge congratulations, Helen!
Bondarenko at Rutgers Colloquium
Our faculty Tanya Bondarenko gave a colloquium talk at Rutgers University titled 'Lacking long-distance wh-movement: why that happens, and how languages get by' on March 22. Congrats, Tanya!
Kate Davidson winning the 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentorship award
It is great news that Kate Davidson has won the Everrett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award this year! This award is presented annually to one or more Harvard faculty members on the basis of nominations from Harvard Griffin GSAS students. Kate is one of the 7 faculty members selected from amongst 77 nominations! Well done and huge congratulations, Kate!
Wonderful Kate receiving the award with her mentees! (Photo from: Kate Davidson)
M&M Lab
Viola Schmitt (HU Berlin/MIT) is presenting at the M&M Lab on Thursday, April 4 at 1:30pm. Details can be found below:
Title: Worlds are not denotations
Time: April 4 @ 1:30 pm
Location: 2 Arrow Street, Room 420
Abstract: here
Graduate Student Workshop
The 2nd Graduate Student Workshop took place last Friday, March 29! Thanks so much to all the presenters and faculties who participated (check out below)! It was a wonderful day filled interesting presentations and great questions. We also celebrated the success of workshop with a pub night at Queen's Head. Let's all look forward to the 3rd one next year!
