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The Linguistics Department would like to congratulate all of our Spring 2003 graduates! Please note that students graduating with 'Honors' are denoted with an "*".
Language Studies-minors
Margaret Diss
Raina Ferran
Dara Kreiger-Nelson
Linguistics-minors
Angela Galindo
Katherine Hannon
Alia Sperling
Holman Tse
Ann-Marie Waszak
Language Studies-majors (* = Honors)
Francesco Brown
Rachel Brumfield
Reyna De La Cruz *
Anya Gutman
Sophia Krich-Brinton
Max Levin
Aric Newlon
Gerardo Palafox
Robert Pegg *
Christina Schierling
Sophea Seng
Ryan Tanaka
Tim Tendick
Sara Williams
Linguistics majors (* = Honors)
Laura Buhl *
Emily Burleson
Angela Butler
Tiffany Derr
Matt Diaz
Sara Finley *
Elena Innes *
Benjamin Kirby
Jessen Langley
Allison Largent
Chelsea Lingo
Perry Lubin
Miles Pederson
Adam Savel *
Marc Sciglimpaglia
Sharlene Stark
Jonathan Whittinghill
Sasha Woodward
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Congratulations to Nathan Sanders and Chris Potts who will graduate this quarter with a Ph.D. in Linguistics.
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Congratulations to Irena Polic who has completed the requirements for the Master's Degree in Linguistics.
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Congratulations again to Sara Finley, who found out at the Student
Achievement Awards Ceremony that she had won a Chancellor's Award for
her senior thesis on denominal verbs in English, in addition to the
Dean's Award that she had already known about.
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Congratulations to Vera Lee-Schoenfeld who passed her Qualifying Exam
on Monday June 9th. Vera's exam was based on her paper on structures
of external possession in German. The examiners were
Judith Aissen, Jorge Hankamer, Jim McCloskey, and Loisa Nygaard
(Professor of Literature).
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Congratulations to Afton Lewis who passed his Syntax/Semantics Qualifying Paper this morning. The title is "A Minimal Syntax for Perception Verb Complements". The committee was composed of James McCloskey, chair, Judith Aissen and Bill Ladusaw.
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Congratulations to the participants in the excellent Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference on Thursday, June 5. The highly professional presentations by Laura Buhl, Alia Sperling, Holman Tse and the Japanese language research group composed of Ryan Tanaka, Eric Terao, Ember Van Allen and Fujiko Yamamoto, were followed by an invited talk by Joey Sabbagh, MIT (BA in Linguistics, UCSC, 2000).
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The Saturday, June 7 Santa Cruz Sentinel lauds the UCSC winners of teaching awards. Sandra Chung is one of ten faculty members who won an award for exemplary and inspiring teaching. Anya Hogoboom is one of a dozen graduate students to be chosen for excellent teaching. Nominations are submitted by students. A faculty committee reads the student nominations as well as a letter from the department chairperson. The awards were presented last month by Chancellor Greenwood and Committee on Teaching Chair Judith Habicht-Mauche, who chairs the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching.
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Congratulations to Donka Farkas who received a Humanities Research Institute grant.
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On Tuesday Bill Ladusaw was "toasted" at a very nice party held in his honor for having served six years as the Provost of Cowell College. Well done, Bill!
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Sandy Chung will hold the Erskine Fellowship in Linguistics at the
University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand this summer.
The fellowship period is 6 weeks, and Sandy will be in New Zealand for
the second half of July and most of August.
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Between October 2nd and October 4th next, a conference will be held at
the University of Tromsoe, in Norway, to inaugurate the new Center for
Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) there. The invited
speakers for this event are:
Sandra CHUNG (UCSC)
Junko ITO (UCSC)
Armin MESTER (UCSC)
Mark BAKER (Rutgers)
Hagit BORER (USC)
Joan BRESNAN (Stanford)
Guglielmo CINQUE (Venice)
George N. CLEMENTS (CNRS, Paris)
Katherine CROSSWHITE (Rochester)
Stuart DAVIS (Indiana)
Richard KAYNE (NYU)
Hilda KOOPMAN (UCLA)
Paul de LACY (Cambridge)
David ODDEN (OSU)
Norvin RICHARDS (MIT)
Donca STERIADE (MIT)
Moira YIP (University College London)
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Thank you to Susan Wade for donating a copier, refrigerator and microwave to
the Cave. We very much appreciate your generosity!
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Thank you to Chris Potts for donating a copy of his dissertation,
THE LOGIC OF CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURES
to the LRC Library.
It can be found on the bottom shelf in the Recent Acquisitions section.
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