Announcements

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What Have UW Linguists Been Up to in Autumn?
January 10, 2025
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Fall 2024 Linguistics Colloquium Series
October 22, 2024
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4th Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA 4): Registration Now Open!
October 22, 2024
Virginia Beavert and Sharon Hargus
Remembering Virginia Beavert
May 24, 2024
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NACLO 2024 at the University of Washington
October 10, 2023
Prof. Richard Wright
Chair's Welcome
September 8, 2023
Betsy Evans
Betsy Evans named the new Executive Director of the American Dialect Society
September 5, 2023
Trent Ukasick
Trent Ukasick receives the Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship and the Endangered Language Fund’s Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship
September 5, 2023
C.M. Downey Poster
C. M. Downey receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship
September 5, 2023
RRF Poster
Congratulations to Professors Qi Cheng, Sharon Hargus, Naja Ferjan Ramírez and Richard Wright.
September 5, 2023
Emily Ahn and Sara Ng
Emily Ahn and Sara Ng receive Excellence in Linguistic Research Awards
September 5, 2023
Jessa Jeter and Emily Ahn
Summer 2023 Highlights
September 5, 2023
Alessio Tosolini
Alessio Tosolini receives Chester William Fritz Humanities Scholarship
May 4, 2023
Gayle Stygall
Gail Stygall endowment
April 28, 2023
Andrew Hedding
Andrew Hedding recent hire
April 28, 2023
Barbara Citko
Barbara Citko awarded Nostrand Professorship
April 28, 2023
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UG Linguistics Society
April 28, 2023
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender AAAS Fellow
February 1, 2023
Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Ferjan Ramírez Distinguished Professorship in Language Acquisition and Multilingualism 
February 1, 2023
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Linguistics: Good to go for another 10 years
February 1, 2023
Harold Schiffman
Harold Schiffman (in memoriam)
February 1, 2023
Rob Squizzero
Spring 2022 PhD Rob Squizzero
September 15, 2022
Richard Wright at ASA annual meeting
Letter from the Chair
September 2, 2022
Andrew Hedding
Welcome Andrew Hedding
September 2, 2022
Alicia Beckford Wassink
Lockwood Scholar Alicia Beckford Wassink
September 2, 2022
Virginia Beavert
Virginia Beavert celebrates 100th birthday
January 10, 2022
Jiahui Huang bench at Guggenheim
Jiahui Huang memorial bench installed
January 10, 2022
Richard Wright at ASA annual meeting
UW linguists at Acoustical Society of America 
January 10, 2022
Fritz Newmeyer
Fritz Newmeyer elected Secretary-Treasurer of Linguistic Society of America—again!
January 10, 2022
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New Courses
September 3, 2021
Anna Moroz
PhD Awarded: Anna Moroz
September 3, 2021
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Jiahui Huang, Memorial Service
July 1, 2021
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Featured alumnus: Adam Werle
May 10, 2021
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ASL Program
May 10, 2021
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Featured language:  Kham
May 10, 2021
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Faculty Profile
May 10, 2021
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Student News
May 10, 2021
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UW Linguistics welcomes Myriam Lapierre
May 10, 2021
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Faculty involvement in Linguistic Society of America
May 10, 2021
Graduation at Husky Stadium
Congratulations to our 2021 Linguistics graduates!
April 20, 2021
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Congratulations to Leanne Rolston, PhD
March 25, 2021
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Faculty profile: Naja Ferjan Ramírez
October 6, 2020
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American Sign Language News
October 2, 2020
Linguistics Chair Richard Wright
Message from Chair Richard Wright
October 2, 2020
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Graduate Program News
September 30, 2020
Black Lives Matter
UW Linguistics Anti-Racism Statement
June 30, 2020
2019 PhD graduates in doctoral regalia at graduation
Congratulations to our Linguistics graduates!
May 11, 2020
Suzzalo Graduate Reading Room
Formal Approaches in Slavic Languages (FASL) 29 conference goes all online!
April 24, 2020
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Teaching & Telework Spring 2020
March 30, 2020
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender interview about AI appears on Inside Science
March 5, 2020