Out of eight University of Florida students recently earned the prestigious Boren Award to learn languages overseas, two major in Linguistics! Eileen Calub ‘22, a linguistics & international affairs double major in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who will study Turkish in Azerbaijan. Rayyan Merchant ‘23, a computer & information science and linguistics […]
A new University of Florida transdisciplinary collaboration has been awarded nearly $50,000 to help reduce colorectal cancer screening inequities affecting African-American patients, by optimizing the delivery of a mobile screening intervention. Kevin Tang and Josh Martin are part of this project.
Graduate student Ethan Kutlu writes forcefully and eloquently about the need for trans visibility in academia, specifically, trans immigrants, at the Linguistic Society of America website.
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Assistant Professor Kevin Tang of the Speech Lexicon and Modeling Lab is featured in UF CLAS’s news. The article summarizes his on-going interdisciplinary research on the role of human genetics in how language evolves over time and his latest paper in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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In collaboration with UF BEBR/CTSI Network Science Lab, and One Health research, Kevin Tang has been awarded a seed grant from the UF Informatics Institute’s COVID-19 Response Seed Funding initiative. The project, “The emergence of COVID-19 team science: tracking topics, networks and expertise in global COVID-19 research”, will analyze a unique combination of big bibliographic data […]
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Emily Rine Butler, Ph.D is interviewed in an article in The Atlantic on greetings during a pandemic, when “How are you?” seems inappropriate. Read it here.
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Assistant Professor Eleonora Rossi, Associate Professor Edith Kaan, and Linguistics graduate student Megan Nakamura are featured in the most recent edition of Explore, UF Research’s quarterly magazine. The article highlights their on-going research in the Brain, Language, and Bilingualism Lab.
Congratulations to PhD student Josh Martin, who received an O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship Award. This scholarship is awarded to students who share a, “commitment to social issues (including addressing issues and fostering opportunities for women, racial minorities and those of low socio-economic background)”.
Congratulations to Aleks Tomic, PhD student in Linguistics working under the supervision of Edith Kaan and Jorge Valdés Kroff, whose NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, “Effects of code-switching on emotional processing”, has been recommended for funding. The project examines the effect of code switching on the emotional reactivity to taboo words.
Dr. Eleonora Rossi will give a flash talk at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle, Washington, February 13-16. Let’s talk! Bilingualism as One-Health approach to understand neurocognitive and social plasticity The ability to communicate is a ubiquitous experience for humans, from childhood to older age. Societies are […]