WHASC Newsletter October 23, 2002
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
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COLLOQUIUM - ADAM ALBRIGHT
Linguistics Faculty Fellow
"The identification of bases in morphological paradigms"
Friday, November 1, 2003
3:30 p.m.
Silverman Conference Room
Stevenson College
Potluck dinner following the colloquium at 120 Limestone Lane
hosted by Junko Ito and Armin Mester.
Everyone is welcome!
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Faculty/Mentor Program for EOP Students
Winter & Spring 2003
Applications are available at the EOP Office, Room 121 at the Academic Resources Center (ARC, formerly the Student Center). Deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 15 by 4:00 PM (date extended).
This is a two quarter intensive academic program that prepares students for future graduate study at the Master's and Doctoral level.
*Offers students hands-on research opportunity under the direction of a faculty sponsor
*Offers a series of workshops on the graduate school application process
*Provides an overview of research methodologies
*Encourages collaborative learning
ELIGIBILITY
*EOP students in the arts, humanities and social science majors
*Sophomores (who have taken core course work within their major), juniors and seniors who do not plan on applying to graduate school until the 2004 cycle
*Must be in good academic standing
*Students with an interest in pursuing graduate study
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Applications for the Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) are due to the Humanities Division Office by Friday, November 15.
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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts invites applications for a new tenure-track position in Linguistics to begin in the Fall of 2003.
Stanford University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department to start September 1, 2003.
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu
UC Davis has launched a major initiative in creating a Center for Mind and Brain and has a junior faculty position opening in cooperation with the Department of Linguistics to begin July, 2003.
http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/ and http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence anticipates hiring an Assistant Professor to teach Phonology beginning August, 2003.
The CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) at the University of Lille, France is advertising permanent research positions for those with doctorates who are either francophone or quick learners. http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drchercheurs/concoursch/2002/default.htm
For more information about these positions and others, see the Job Openings clipboard outside the Linguistics Department.
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New in the LRC Library
Thank you to Line Mikkelsen for donating:
Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG
edited by Ronnie Cann, Claire Grover & Philip Miller
Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism
2000, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA
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