Undergraduate students Larisa Bryan and Sadie Potts presented at the Denman Undergraduate Research forum.
Graduate instructors Emily Napoli and Ian Cameron were awarded the Linguistics Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Linguistics graduate student Ian Cameron won the Kari-Ellen-Gade Prize for the best presentation by a graduate student at the 30th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, out of 42 student abstracts accepted for oral presentation.
The College of Arts and Sciences awarded undergraduate Larisa Bryan an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for her B.A. thesis research (thesis advisor: Cynthia Clopper).
Graduate student Marie Bissell was awarded an American Dialect Society Presidential Honorary Membership. This award is for outstanding students and provides 4 years of complimentary membership to the American Dialect Society.
Graduate student Ariana Steele was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant, entitled “Determinants of social meaning.”
Graduate program coordinator Julia Papke was selected to receive an Arts & Sciences Outstanding Staff Award.
Professor Andrea Sims received a Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding performance in research, teaching, and service of mid-career faculty at the time of review for promotion to professor and is selected by the college promotion and tenure faculty review committee.
Andrea Sims was elected as Nominations and Leadership Development Chair of Linguistics and Language Science of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Graduate student Katie Connor was re-elected as Vice President of the OSU Council of Graduate Students.
Faculty member Kathryn Campbell-Kibler was awarded a one-semester Arts and Humanities Course Release to dedicate time to a scholarly project.
Graduate student Martha Johnson was awarded a G. Michael Riley Scholarship from the College of Arts & Sciences, which supports international activities in the Humanities. Martha will use the money to partially fund two months as a visiting student in Hannah Gibson’s lab at the University of Essex (UK).
Graduate student Alyssa Allen was awarded a Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CCBS) Summer Graduate Award, which covers tuition, fees and stipend this summer.
Graduate student Ariana Steele accepted a tenure-track position at Penn State University as Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, starting in the autumn semester of this year.
Graduate student Marie Bissell accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics at UT Arlington, starting in August.
Graduate student Byung-Doh Oh was awarded a Faculty Fellow post-doctoral position at NYU Center for Data Science. Building on the success of the Moore-Sloan Fellows program, CDS created a Faculty Fellow program to continue to develop outstanding researchers in Data Science.
Senior Lecturer Laura Siragusa was awarded a Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures Associated Faculty and Professors of Teaching Funding grant. The CLLC awards grants to selected Associated Faculty or Professors of Teaching in languages, literatures and cultures to support travel to conferences, research, or certification.
Undergraduate program coordinator Liz McCullough was awarded an Outstanding New Advisor Award by the Academic Advising Association of The Ohio State University.
Undergraduate students Larisa Bryan, Taiyi Chen, Margot Hare successfully defended BA theses this semester.
Undergraduate Emma Clute was awarded a silver medal in the American Council of Teachers of Russian National Russian Essay Contest in the category for first-year Russian language study.
Alum Rex Wallace (PhD ’84) will release a revised 2nd edition of his book, Zikh Rasna. A Manual of Etruscan Language and Inscriptions. It is scheduled for publication by Beech Stave Press in January 2025.
Additionally, Rex and Anthony Tuck, the director of excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Italy), published a paper in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies on an ivory writing tablet discovered during the 2023 excavation season. The tablet, which dates to c. 650 BCE, is only the second writing tablet of its kind discovered in pre-Roman Italy and as a result is of considerable importance for the discussion of literacy in central Italy in the 7th c. BCE.
