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Faculty Awards and Honors
| Recipient | Description |
|---|---|
| Emily M. Bender | Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, 2024-2027 |
| Laura McGarrity | Distinguished Teaching Award 2025 |
| Myriam Lapierre | Research Grants in the Documentation of Oral Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, 2024 |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink | CoMotion Faculty Innovation Gap award, 2023 |
| Naja Ferjan Ramírez | Distinguished Professor in Language Acquisition and Multilingualism Endowment, 2019, 2020 |
| Emily M. Bender | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 2023 |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink | Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, 2022-2025 |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink | Arthur & Helen Whiteley Distinguished Fellow, 2022 |
| Richard Wright | Acoustical Society of America Fellow, 2021 |
| Sharon Hargus | LSA Ken Hale Award, 2021 |
| Lance Forshay | UW Distinguished Teaching Award, 2014 |
| Fritz Newmeyer | Mellon Emeritus Fellowship, 2011-2013 |
| Emily M. Bender | R1edu award for significant contributions to online and distance learning, 2009 |
Linguistics Fund Internal Grant
The Linguistics department encourages Linguistics faculty to apply for internal grants when they are available.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Qi Cheng | 2024-2025 |
| Naja Ferjan Ramírez | 2023-2024 |
| Richard Wright | 2023-2024 |
| Myriam Lapierre | 2022-2023 |
| Shane Steinert-Threlkeld | 2022-2023 |
| Barbara Citko | 2019-2021 |
| Toshiyuki Ogihara | 2019-2020 |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink | 2019-2020 |
| Betsy Evans | 2017-2019 |
| Edith Aldridge | 2017-2018 |
| Sharon Hargus | 2016-2017 |
Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professorship
The endowed professorship was established in 2004 by a $500,000 gift from Howard and Frances Nostrand, intended to promote language and culture as a new discipline, and to underscore the need for cultural competence. Prof. Nostrand chaired the UW Department of Romance Languages and Literature from 1939 to 1964, retiring from teaching in 1981.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Barbara Citko | 2022-2024 |
| Emily M. Bender | 2019-2022 |
| Edith Aldridge | 2016-2018 |
| Ellen Kaisse | 2013-2015 |
| Sharon Hargus | 2010-2012 |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink | 2006-2009 |
| Frederick J. Newmeyer | 2004-2006 |
Royalty Research Fund
Linguistics faculty have been awarded the Royalty Research Fund, a competitive awards program that provides research support to University of Washington faculty. The UW recognizes their research has high probability of generating important new scholarly understandings, materials, or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to the development of a new technology.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Qi Cheng | 2023-2024 |
| Myriam Lapierre | 2023-2024 |
| Sharon Hargus | 2023-2024 |
| Shane Steinert-Threlkeld | 2021-2022 |
| Betsy Evans | 2020-2021 |
| Gašper Beguš | 2020-2021 |
| Richard Wright | 2009-2010 |
| Sharon Hargus | 2005-2006 |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink | 2003-2004 |
| Richard Wright | 2003-2004 |
| Sharon Hargus | 2001-2002 |
Graduate Student Awards and Honors
Major National Student Awards
| Recipient | Description |
|---|---|
| Emily Ahn | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017-2021 |
Arienne Dwyer Language Documentation Award
| Recipient | Description |
|---|---|
Ella DeFalco | Arienne Dwyer Language Documentation Award, 2024-2025 |
| Jessica Luo | Arienne Dwyer Language Documentation Award, 2024-2025 |
| Trent Ukasick | Arienne Dwyer Language Documentation Award, 2023-2024 |
UW Graduate Awards
Linguistics graduate students have been recognized by the graduate school for exceptional work.
| Recipient | Description |
|---|---|
| Yuting Zhang | Graduate School Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship, 2024-2025 |
| Trent Ukasick | Graduate School Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship, 2023-2024 |
| C.M. Downey | Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, 2023-2024 |
| Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro | Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, 2022-2023 |
Ryan Neale Cross Memorial Fellowship
The Ryan Neale Cross Memorial Fellowship to support students studying computational linguistics with the goal of improving accessibility through assistive technology. It continues to support students by generous donations to the fellowship fund.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
Hayley Chu | 2025-2026 |
| Crystal Kendrick | 2022-2023 |
| Ju-Hui Chen | 2022-2023 |
| Hillel Steinmetz | 2021-2022 |
| Cady Gansen | 2019-2020 |
CLMS Scholarships
The Linguistics department, in conjunction with Continuum College, offers a number of scholarships for incoming CLMS students based on financial need and academic merit.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
Yun Woo Lee | 2025 |
| Avery Bellamy | 2024 |
| Taiyi Chen | 2024 |
| Spencer Brooks | 2024 |
| Paula Cortes | 2023 |
| Emma McKibbin | 2023 |
| Mariana Graterol-Fuenmayor | 2022 |
| Julia Mainzinger | 2022 |
| Shengqi Zhu | 2021 |
| Rosetta Hanako Pendleton | 2020 |
Graduate Research Excellence Awards
Linguistics department faculty nominate advanced PhD candidates for graduate student research awards, intended to acknowledge the exceptional work from these candidates as they work to complete their degree.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Vipasha Bansal | 2025-2026 |
| Ray Gagne | 2025-2026 |
| Yuting Zhang | 2025-2026 |
| Ella De Falco | 2024-2025 |
| Kaveri Sheth | 2024-2025 |
| Trent Ukasick | 2024 |
| Emily Ahn | 2023 |
| Sara Ng | 2023 |
| C.M. Downey | 2022 |
| Ted Kyoungsirk Key | 2022 |
| Angelina McMillan-Major | 2022 |
| Amandalynne Paullada | 2021 |
| Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro | 2021 |
| Yuanhe Tian | 2021 |
| Benjamin Jones | 2020 |
| Jiahui Huang | 2020 |
| Anna Moroz | 2020 |