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Martha S. Palmer, Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, has been selected as the winner of the Outstanding Faculty Graduate Advising award by the Graduate School. The nomination was submitted by a group of Dr. Palmer's past and present advisees, and the award recognizes Dr. Palmer for her excellent leadership...

Adjunct assistant professor and Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics alumnus Kevin Cohen's second book, Biomedical Natural Language Processing , is available for pre-order on Amazon.com and should be available for delivery later this month. Co-authored with the Natural Library of Medicine's Dina Demner-Fushman, the book's cover describes it as "a comprehensive tour through...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics associate professor Laura Michaelis has been awarded a 2014-2015 fellowship by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Center for Humanities and Arts. Awardees were selected by a panel of external reviewers. Fellowships consist of a two-course teaching reduction. The selection committee considers the intellectual merit of the project, the overall excellence of the...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics doctoral students Steve Duman and Kevin Gould, principals of Inherent Games, LLC, have won a $150,000 Small Business and Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant through the National Science Foundation for the development of language-learning games. NSF SBIR programs enable startups and small businesses to undertake R&D with...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics PhD student Sam Beer has won a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grant for a project entitled "A Grammar of Nyang'i with Historical-Comparative Notes". Nyang'i is a nearly-extinct member of the Kuliak language family, remembered by only one or two elderly inhabitants of a remote valley in the...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics Professor Zygmunt Frajzyngier has produced two landmark studies in African linguistics. The first work is 2012's A Grammar of Wandala (Mouton de Gruyter). This book represents the first description of Wandala, a Central Chadic language spoken in the Far North Province of Cameroon and in North-Eastern Nigeria by...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Professor of Linguistics and French J. Andrew Cowell, working with graduate student assistants in the Linguistics Department and collaborating with language teachers from the Gros Ventre Tribe in Montana, recently produced a Gros Ventre Student Dictionary and a Gros Ventre Student Reference Grammar, to aid in the tribe's language...

Dr. Kira Hall of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ departments of Linguistics and Anthropology has been been named by ASSETT as an Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching. ASSETT asked students across the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ College of Arts and Science to nominate an instructor who uses technology in outstanding ways to support student learning...

In its 2010 survey of American doctoral programs, the National Research Council has placed the Department of Linguistics at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder in the top quarter of American linguistics programs. Based on an overall measure of excellence that combines factors like publication rates, faculty honors and PhD...