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New Cambridge "Element" by Caroline Wiltshire Published

New Cambridge “Element” by Caroline Wiltshire Published

November 24, 2020
Congratulations to our own Dr. Caroline Wiltshire, whose “element” (think journal meets book), titled “Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent” was just published ...
Linguistics Major Named Askew Scholar

Linguistics Major Named Askew Scholar

November 23, 2020
Congratulations to Eileen Calub, who today was named an Askew Scholar by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. Askew Scholars are undergraduates who spend ...
Career Panel Hosted by Undergraduate Ling Society This Friday

Career Panel Hosted by Undergraduate Ling Society This Friday

November 19, 2020
The Undergraduate Linguistics Society will be hosting a career panel this Friday (11/20) from 5:00-6:00 pm EST! Four UF alumni will tell us about their ...
Faculty Spotlight: Diana Boxer

Faculty Spotlight: Diana Boxer

November 18, 2020
Dr. Diana Boxer has been a staple of the University of Florida Linguistics Department since before it was even a department. Read more "Faculty Spotlight: Diana ...
Ethan Kutlu to present at TEDxUF

Ethan Kutlu to present at TEDxUF

October 7, 2020
On Saturday, October 17th Ethan Kutlu will be presenting Why You Shouldn’t Judge An Accent at TEDxUF Paradox between 2:00 and 3:30pm. He will be ...

Edith Kaan and Jorge Valdes Kroff receive NSF Linguistics funding

September 3, 2020
Drs. Edith Kaan and Jorge Valdes Kroff are PI and co-PI, respectively, on a four-year NSF grant entitled “Adaptation of control processes in code-switching”. The ...

Ratree Wayland and Kevin Tang win NSF funding

September 3, 2020
Congratulations to Drs. Tang and Wayland, who are co-PIs on a new NSF project through the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems program. The $750,000, three-year ...

James Essegbey To Speak At Abralin (The Brazilian Linguistics Association)

July 17, 2020
James Essegbey will be presenting a lecture on Thursday, 23 July at 16:00 ET (or 5PM, Brazil Time; UTC -3). The title of his talk ...

Two Linguistics Majors Win Boren Award

June 28, 2020
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 ...

SLaM lab (Kevin Tang & Josh Martin) receive UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute Precision Health Initiative Pilot Award

June 28, 2020
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 ...

Ethan Kutlu Writes about the Need for Trans Visibility in Academia

June 25, 2020
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 ...

Kevin Tang featured in CLAS News on how Genetics Guide the Evolution of Language

June 17, 2020
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 ...

2020 Graduate Spotlight