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News Archive

  • July 2004. For various news see the 2004 newsletter.
  • June 2004.  Sahyang Kim, a 2004 Ph.D. from our department, has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship position at Wayne State University.
  • May 2004.  Jason Riggle, a 2004 Ph.D. from our department, has accepted a teaching appointment for 2004-2005 at the Linguistics Department at the University of Chicago.
  • May 2004.  Adam Albright, a 2002 Ph.D. from our department, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.
  • April 14, 2004. Rebecca Scarborough, a fifth year graduate student in our department, has accepted a three-year appointment as a Stanford Humanities Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University.
  • April 2, 2004. Katherine Crosswhite, a Ph.D. from our department, has accepted a tenure track position in the Linguistics Department at Rice University.
  • April 2, 2004. Our department has started issuing a newletter again; visit our Newsletter Page to read the current issue.
  • April 9, 2002. Graduate student Leston Buell has won a Lenart Travel Fellowship. Leston will be using the fellowship to continue his work on Zulu in South Africa this summer.
  • April 8, 2002. Graduate student Tim Sexauer and undergraduate student Peter Debelak bring us the dubious honor of maintaining the messiest college apartment in the nation! And they win $10,000 and professional cleaning. Details at apartments.com. Their new-found fame has landed them an appearance on the national television program The Today Show has well as a live interview on the popular Los Angeles radio station KISS FM.
  • March 21, 2002. Graduate student Robert Bowen has won a National Science Foundation fellowship.
  • March, 2002. Graduate student Melissa Epstein has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Maureen Stone at the Vocal Tract Visualization Laboratory at the University of Maryland Dental School.

    Misha Becker, who received her Ph.D. in 2000, has accepted a tenure tracke position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    Graduate student Kamil Ud Deen has accepted a tenure track position at the University of Hawaii.

  • March, 2002. Kie Zuraw, a UCLA graduate currently teaching at USC, has accepted a tenure track position in this department as a phonologist. And Philippe Schlenker, an MIT graduate also currently teaching at USC has accepted a tenure track position in this department as a semanticist.
  • March, 2002. A new volume of UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. The volume, number 8 of the series, is entitled Papers in African Linguistics 2 and was edited by graduate student Harold Torrence. Information on the new volume will be put on-line soon.
  • Friday, June 22, 2001: U.C.L.A. Slang 4 appeared earlier this month. This new dictionary of college slang was compiled by a team of ten students under the direction of Prof. Pamela Munro. You can read about this new book here. For pricing and ordering information on this and other UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, click here.
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001: Franz Cozier, a UCLA undergraduate double-majoring in Linguistics and Neuroscience, has just received two Dean's Prizes, out of only eleven awarded in total, one in Linguistics and another in Neuroscience. The lingusitics paper which one a prize is entitled Predicate Cleft. His mentors in the department are Tim Stowell and Hilda Koopman.
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2001: The course "Teaching with Technology," taught by Melissa Epstein, meets Wednesday at 1PM in 190 Powell (use the east entrance of the library). Click here for an on-line version of the syllabus.
  • Tuesday, March 6, 2001: The new on-line version of the graduate course evaluation form is now available on our site. It is located at http://www.fizzylogic.com/cgi-bin/ucla/classeval.py. It can also be found by clicking on "Graduate Program" on the department home page.
  • Friday, January 12, 2001: The Athabaskan Language Conference will be held at UCLA on May 18-20, 2001. The conference website is at here. This site is also linked to from the departmental Talks and Events page.