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Dr. Regina Miranda featured as one of Ad Council's Champions for Good
Congratulations to Dr. Regina Miranda (Health Psychology and Clinical Science (HPCS) training area) on being featured as the Ad Council's Champion for Good, as a result of her involvement with the Ad Council's Sound It Out youth mental health campaign.
Joliette Mandel Recognized for Outstanding Thesis
Congratulations to Joliette Mandel (M.A. ’22, Liberal Studies), who received the Provost’s Prize for the most outstanding thesis/capstone project in the M.A. in Liberal Studies program for her paper “Equitable Assessment for Elementary-Aged Dual Language Learners.”
The thesis was an outgrowth of a doctoral-level course on New York City education and an accompanying policy conference led by Professor David Bloomfield (GC/Brooklyn, Urban Education), acting executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education.
Bloomfield, who advised Mandel on the thesis, called the paper an “outstanding policy analysis with recommendations, combining sophisticated research methodology and original insights into a significant public issue.”
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.
Subversive Creativity Has Always Been a Way for Black Folx to Practice Freedom
The celebration of Black Music Month, Pride and Juneteenth, Provides a Platform for Examining How Black Creative Practices Can Continue to Advance Social Justice. Read the article.
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