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Dr. Rai Farrelly partnering with Ukrainian educators through US State Dept appointment

Sept. 23, 2024

CU Linguistics Teaching Associate Professor and TESOL Director, Dr. Rai Farrelly, was profiled in a recent Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine article . In the piece, she discusses building a virtual collaboration with colleagues in Ukraine through the US Department of State's Access Program , highlighting the pedagogical challenges of...

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Dr. Rai Farrelly Featured in VoyageDenver

June 12, 2024

CU Linguistics faculty member and TESOL director Dr. Rai Farrelly was recently spotlighted in an interview article in Voyage Denver magazine. In the piece, she discusses her work to co-found the educational Tanzania-based non-profit, Project Wezesha , her work here in Boulder in building communicty-based programs, as well as her...

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PhD student Kate Arnold-Murray featured in CU Arts & Sciences Magazine

June 11, 2024

CU Linguistics PhD student Kate Arnold-Murray was recently featured in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine , in an interview discussion of her work on the Settle for Biden Instagram campaign during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Drawing from the theoretical/methodological toolkits of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, Kate's analysis drills down...

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CU Linguistics honors 2024 graduates

May 17, 2024

On May 8, 2024, the CU Linguistics community gathered in Muenzinger Auditorium to celebrate its graduating class of 2024. Hosted by department chair Laura A. Michaelis, the ceremony recognized the achievements of 42 graduating students (21 BA, 13 MA, 3 MS and 5 PhD). Reflecting the interdisciplinary focus of linguistic...

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Tessa Moskoff and Rachel Wagner awarded 2024 David Rood Linguistics Undergraduate Scholarship

May 1, 2024

CU Linguistics is pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the David Rood Linguistics Undergraduate Scholarship, Tessa Moskoff and Rachel Wagner! Awarded since 2017, the David Rood Award recognizes a continuing student or students for their outstanding academic achievement in our undergraduate program, as well as potential for further success...

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Rai Farrelly gives TESOL conference keynote at Soka University, Tokyo

April 30, 2024

CU Linguistics Teaching Associate Professor and TESOL Director Dr. Rai Farrelly gave a keynote address at the International Hybrid Conference on Diversity and Inclusivity in English Language Education , at Soka University in Tokyo in early May 2024. Dr. Farrelly's address, titled "Transgressive Teaching to Promote Equity in TESOL," is...

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Pui Fong Kan (SLHS), Eliana Colunga (PSYC), and Bhuvana Narasimhan (LING) awarded SSCI divisional grant to support undergraduate research in child language

April 30, 2024

The researchers, from three different CU departments, will launch a new interdisciplinary training program "Diversity in Child Language Acquisition Research". The program, running from Fall '24 to Summer '25, will train a cohort of undergraduate students to investigate language development in children from marginalized and underresourced communities. Students will learn...

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Chase Raymond and research team receive $2.6 million NIH grant

Nov. 15, 2023

Along with a team of healthcare researchers from Columbia University, Prof. Chase Raymond , who shares a secondary appointment with the Department of Family Medicine at CU Anschutz’s School of Medicine, has received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This four-year, $2.6 million grant is a...

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CU Linguistics engages new students at Fall 2023 A&S College Day Welcome Fair

Aug. 29, 2023

Undergraduates Rain Michael, Jaimie Jettmar, and Jacob Burton (from right to middle in photo) joined faculty members Kira Hall and Kris Stenzel at last week’s A&S College Day Welcome Fair to talk with incoming students about choosing linguistics as a major or minor. The most common question asked: What is...

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Dr. Martha Palmer receives 2023 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

Aug. 9, 2023

CU Professor of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow Martha Palmer was recently recognized by the Association for Computational Linguistics with their 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award . You can read more about Dr. Palmer's 50+ year career and her current projects here . We at CU...

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