Announcements

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Saiya Karamali wins 2025 Washington Women’s Chess Championship
October 20, 2025
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The SocioLinx team does fieldwork in Arizona
October 13, 2025
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Qi Cheng receives prestigious grants
September 24, 2025
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Sharon Hargus Awarded NSF Grant
September 24, 2025
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American Sign Language represented at the Fall Quarter World Language Fair
September 24, 2025
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Sharon Hargus retires 
September 24, 2025
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Faculty Promotions
September 16, 2025
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Laura McGarrity 2025 Teaching Award recipient
September 15, 2025
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 Congratulations to our 2025 Linguistics Graduates!
September 15, 2025
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Linguistics Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (LURAP) Fall 2025 applications due September 19
September 8, 2025
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Language Learning Center to host World Language Fair (Dawg Daze Event)
September 8, 2025
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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna to present The AI Con 
August 5, 2025
New PhD Students
Meet Our First-Year PhD Students!
March 25, 2025
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Richard Wright Co-Editor-in-Chief of Phonetica
March 6, 2025
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Join Us for the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43) April 25-27, 2025
March 6, 2025
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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
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Remembering Virginia Beavert
May 24, 2024
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NACLO 2024 at the University of Washington
October 10, 2023
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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
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C. M. Downey receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship
September 5, 2023
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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
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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
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Harold Schiffman (in memoriam)
February 1, 2023
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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
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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
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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