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Electrochemical Society Fellowship Goes to Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate
Congratulations to Chemistry Ph.D. candidate Rui Jia, who was awarded the 2022 H. H. Uhlig Fellowship of The Electrochemical Society. The fellowship provides $5,000 for summer research.
Presidential Professor Phil Kasinitz Received 2022 ASA Distinguish Scholar Award
Our Professor Phil Kasinitz just won the 2022 Distinguished Career Award in the ASA International Migration session.
Big congratulations!
Prof. Cece Cutler co-organized a seminar at the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik
Prof. Cece Cutler co-organized a seminar on multilingual, multilectal, and multiscriptal writing at the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 20-24, 2022. She gave a talk entitled "Spelling norms and orality: writing the New York City Accent on YouTube".
Prof. Cutler co-organized a panel on language activism
Prof. Cutler co-organized a panel on language activism at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 in Ghent, Belgium, July 13-16, 2022 . She will give a talk entitled "Labelling ethnolects: challenges and potentials in light of the “principle of error correction”.
Prof. Kyle Gorman: Seminar and Workshop
Prof. Kyle Gorman will be giving a NL seminar at the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California on June 23, 2022, titled, “Weighted Finite-State Transducers: The Later Years”.
Prof. Gorman will also be teaching a linguistics workshop at NASSLLI 2022, June 18-24 at the University of Southern California, hosted by USC: https://ml-la.github.io/nasslli2022/index.html.
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 graduates!
PhD: Boram Kim, Susana Huidobro, Chaya Nove, SeJin Oh, and Jennifer Seale
MA: Kelsey Bourque, Matthew Kadish, Jonathan I. Manczur, Lara Novic, William Oliver, Yuying Ren, Yulia Spektor, Natalia Tyulina, and Brynne Wilkinson
Congratulations to Pamela Franciotti!
Pamela presented her poster titled, “On the processing of filler gap dependencies in L2 Italian: A self-paced reading study” at GASLA16 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, May 12-14, 2022
Dissertation Defense: Felix Grezes
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2022
Time: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Finite Gaussian Neurons: Defending Against Adversarial Attacks by Making Neural Networks Say “I Don’t Know”
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 841 7806 6759
Passcode: 468229
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard D. Alba is ranked #110 among Top Scientists for 2022
We are happy to share that our Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Alba, has ranked #110 in the world and #69 nationally among top scientists in the area of Law and Political Science.
The full world ranking published by Research.com.
Congratulations to Professor Richard Alba on this important accomplishment!
Alumna Andréa Becker Published An Op-Ed in New York Times
Men benefit from abortion—why don't cis men talk about their abortion stories and why do we mostly study women?
Read the op-ed "Men Have a Lot to Lose When Roe Falls" in New York Times written by our alumna Andréa Becker, who just began her postdoc journey at University of California San Francisco.