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WHASC Newsletter, April 9, 2003
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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GOOD NEWS
Congratulations to Chris Potts who has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Bravo!
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Congratulations to Adam Ussishkin and Andy Wedel who have accepted two tenure-track positions in the Linguistics Department at the University of Arizona (bringing the total number of phonetics/phonology faculty in the department to 8!). Adam and Andy both are going to be appointed faculty in the cognitive science program as well, and on top of that, Andy will also have an appointment in the department of neuroscience!
The other job offers they were got were all double tenure-track positions, and were from the University of Chicago, and the University of Southern California. Needless to say, they were thrilled about it all.
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Hearty congratulations to Pete Alrenga who received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF (National Science Foundation)! The fellowship lasts for three years, and will cover his tuition/registration
expenses, as well as provide a monthly stipend (including the summer months).
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Chris Brew (The Ohio State University) has a review of The Cambridge
Grammar of the English Language in the new issue of Computational
Linguistics (vol. 29 (2003), no.1, 144-147). He comments:
Everything about the book is a credit to the authors and
the publishers. It is authoritative, interesting, reasonably
priced (for a book of this size), beautifully designed,
well proofread, and enjoyable to handle. Without training,
few owners will have the arm strength to read it on the
beach or in the bath, but those who can would probably
enjoy the experience.
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EVENTS
Philosophy Colloquium
Jonathan Ellis, UC Santa Cruz
"Can an Externalist about Thought Be an Internalist about Experience?"
Friday, April 11 at 4:00 p.m. Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
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Linguistics Colloquium
SHIGERU MIYAGAWA, M.I.T.
"Argument Structure and Double Objects"
Friday, April 18, 2003 3:30 p.m. at Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
The abstract can be read at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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Love writing? Meet alumni who write for a career. A cross-disciplined Writing Careers Workshop will be held on Thursday, April 24, 6-7:30 p.m. in Conference C, Bay Tree Bookstore Building, Third Floor. All majors welcomed.
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Graduate Student Workshop:
Practical Strategies for Writing a Dissertation
DOROTHY BROWN
Saturday, April 26 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Cowell Conference Room (lunch provided)
Topics will include:
* Where to begin, how to keep going
* How to move from research to writing to revising to finishing
* Practical advice on organizing, outlining, setting realistic goals and tasks
* Handling notes, paper and files
* Time management in academic pro
Dorothy Brown (Ph.D., English, UC Berkeley) is a writing and organizational consultant. She has spent the past 25 years consulting on writing projects with graduate students, faculty, analysts and other professional writers. to register for the workshop, email Stephanie Casher at scasher@cats.ucsc.edu by April 10.
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Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
May 9-10, 2003
The Cecil Hotel, Alexandria, Egypt
For more information, email: tmhl@mstar2.net