On Friday September 12th and Saturday September 13th 2008, the department will host its first ever Graduate Alumni Conference, designed to celebrate the achievements of the graduate program and the achievements of its alumnae and alumni. The conference is sponsored by the More]

We are very happy to announce that Grant McGuire has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor with the department for 2008-09. Grant is a phonetician who trained at OSU with Keith Johnson and Mary Beckman, and who now holds a postdoctoral research position at UC Berkeley. His r... [More]

We are very pleased to announce that Adrian Brasoveanu and Matt Wagers have both accepted faculty positions at UCSC. [More]

At the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Chicago in January 2008, Judith Aissen was named a Fellow of the Society. Similarly honored at the same meeting was Professor emeritus Geoff Pullum. Election as a Fellow recognizes a record of distinguished contributions to the discipline, and is a very rare honor indeed... [More]

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Beth Ann Hockey has been offered and has accepted a position as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCSC. Beth Ann was awarded the PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (where her advisor was Mark Liberman) in 1998. She is one of the principal developers of the Regulus Proje... [More]

On February 13th 2007, Geoff Pullum of the Linguistics Department delivered the 40th Annual Faculty Research Lecture in the Music Recital Hall on the UCSC campus. Each year, the Academic Senate of UC Santa Cruz chooses one of its number for this special distinction. It is a great honor for the department that one of our colleagues has been selec... [More]

Sandy Chung has been elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. Election as a Fellow recognizes “extraordinary contributions to the discipline and to the Society.” [More]

We are very pleased to announce that Pranav Anand has joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty as Assistant Professor of Linguistics. [More]

On Friday March 7th and Saturday March 8th, the Department hosted one of the most important events of the year: the annual graduate student conference known as LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz). This yearly event provides 2nd and 3rd year graduate students with an opportunity to present their current research before an audience of faculty, peers, vi... [More]

The Department hosted TREND 2008 on Saturday May 10. TREND is an annual workshop at which graduate students and faculty in linguistics at Berkeley, Stanford, and Santa Cruz can present their current research in an informal and collaborative setting. The workshop was an all-day affair which took place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The... [More]