Weekly Digest, 2/5/24

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Undergraduates win SOAR awards

Congratulations to the following undergraduate students who have received SOAR (Student Opportunities for Academic Research) awards to work as research assistants on projects run by faculty in the Linguistics department:

• Jiamin Cheng (Philosophy, Communication)

• Damaris Ortega (Health and Human Sciences, Spanish)

• Eileen Yang (Math, Linguistics)

Welcome, baby Robin!

Reed Blaylock shares exciting news: “Robin Soares (we opted for a matrilineal last name) was born January 14 at 2:41am, weighing in at 7 lbs 9 oz. Everybody is as happy and healthy as they can be!” Congratulations to Reed and his wife on this addition to their family!

Upcoming Events

Colloquiua

Please mark your calendars! The following colloquiua are scheduled for later this semester:

• March 25: Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of British Columbia)

• April 15: Michelle Yuan (UCLA)

Department Events

• Monday, Feb. 5 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: Professionalization workshop on CVs and websites

• Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Haley Hsu on “Prolific overview: Insights from the participant’s perspective for online human-subjects research”

• Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 2pm @ S-Side Story: Zahra Mirrazi on “Embedded tenses and strength of counterfactuality”