Ratree Wayland and Kevin Tang win NSF funding
September 3, 2020Congratulations 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, 2020James 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, 2020Out 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, 2020A 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, 2020Graduate 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, 2020Assistant 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 ...
Kevin Tang receives seed funding for COVID-19-related research
June 17, 2020In 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 ...
Graduate Spotlight: Melena Davenport
April 27, 2020Melena Davenport is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her.
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Graduate Spotlight: Leah Dailey
April 24, 2020Leah Dailey is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her.
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Emily Rine Butler featured in Atlantic article on greetings in this time of pandemic
April 24, 2020Emily 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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Graduate Spotlight: Ashley Van Wie
April 23, 2020Ashley Van Wie is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for ...
Graduate Spotlight: Emily Simmons
April 22, 2020Emily Simmons is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her.
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