In October, we said a fond farewell and a HUGE thank-you to Joyce Parvi, who retired after more than two decades of continuous service at the University of Washington and the Department of Linguistics. In her most recent role as Academic Counselor, she managed all aspects of the department’s graduate programs’ advising, including the department's PCE program for Computational Linguistics.
Joyce Parvi was the heart and soul of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science (CLMS) program since its inception in 2005, and the core institutional memory of the Department of Linguistics for even longer. Joyce’s knowledge of Linguistics as a field, how linguistics is practiced at UW, and the interface between computer science and linguistics was a great resource for our faculty and students in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. She brought care and professionalism to support prospective, in-coming and current students, and showed that the Department and the University are human-centered, nurturing institutions.