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Welcome to our Fall 2022 cohort!
PhD: Emmanuel Bawa, Ibrahim Abuelrob, Clara McMahon, Yana Miroshnychenko, Shane Quinn
MA: Zainab Akande, Nhia Borja, Jalitza Gutierrez, Kaitlyn Massiah, Nishta Trivedi, Nicholas Uva, Yukun Zhang
Congratulations to Carolina Fraga for giving a talk at the Cambridge University!
Carolina Fraga gave an invited talk at the Cambridge University Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC: https://rolinc.org/) on May 10, 2022, on "Completive 'todo' in Rioplatense Spanish". RoLinC is jointly organized by the University of Cambridge and the University of Newcastle (UK).
Congratulations to Prof. Kyle Gorman for receiving another PSC-CUNY grant!
Prof. Kyle Gorman received another PSC-CUNY grant. See here for more details.
Prof. Gorman also gave two talks at:
Michigan State University on 3/3/2022, titled “Phonotactics in phonological theory”. See here for more info.
Johns Hopkins University on 4/1/2022, titles “Weighted finite-state transducers: the later years”. See here for more info.
Hooray for Mariana Graterol for securing a summer internship at Nvidia as a language specialist!
Prof. Irina Sekerina received 2 awards!
1. A senior fellowship at the University of Cologne (Germany) for October-November, 2022, in CRC 1252 project on prominence.
2. A Fulbright award to go to São Paulo (Brazil) in the spring-summer 2023.
Second Exam: Zhujun Li
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: 6D Rigid Objects Pose Estimation in Deep Learning
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 812 9626 6950
Passcode: 574374
Art History Student Has Award-Winning Exhibition Catalogue
Nina Stritzler-Levine, a student in the GC Art History program, has received the Society of Architectural Historians' Exhibition Catalogue Award for 2022 for her catalogue Eileen Gray, which she coedited with Cloe Pitiot, Bard Graduate Center, 2020. The book also won the DAM Architectural Book award and a design award from AIGA the professional design association.
Art History Student Named a Winner of the 2022-23 Rome Prize
Saskia Verlaan, a doctoral student in the GC Art History program, has been named a winner of the 2022-23 Rome Prize, presented by the American Academy in Rome.
These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. Verlaan will receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, starting in September 2022.
Dissertation Defense: Soumik Dey
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Grammar Competition Explored in Two Case Studies: NS Stage and Old English
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 835 7593 6064
Passcode: 295698
Dissertation Proposal: Minh Nguyen
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Time: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Cost-Effective and Performance-Preserving Secured Application Management in Cloud Environment
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 847 3716 5184
Passcode: 430193