News

Professor Shari Speer has received the 2020 President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. The award was presented virtually to Shari on April 14 by Provost McPheron.…

Undergraduate alumna Nicole Holliday has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, starting in the fall. Congratulations,…

The Development Committee in the Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce that Katie Connor and Yuhong Zhu have each been awarded a 2020 Ilse Lehiste Memorial Fund Graduate Research Award…

Alumni Katie Carmichael and Abby Walker have both been awarded tenure in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Congratulations, Katie and Abby!

Shawntel Barreiro has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides three years of financial support, including a stipend and tuition…

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce that in the 2020-2021 academic year, we will have two Eminence Fellows among our undergraduate Linguistics majors, Grace LeFevre and Margot…

Noah Diewald has been awarded summer and dissertation year FLAS fellowships to study Wao Tededo in Ecuador. Congratulations, Noah!

Professor Andrea Sims has been awarded a Small Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences to develop American Sign Language drawings for the third edition of her textbook, Understanding…

Professor Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, with collaborators Anna Babel (Spanish and Portuguese), Leslie Moore (Teaching and Learning), and Laura Wagner (Psychology) has been awarded a Community…