Recent News
Dr. Qi Cheng (Primary Investigator) and collaborator Dr. Christina Zhao (Co-Investigator) received a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Early Career Research(ECR) Award (R21, $375,000 total direct) to support a three-year project.
Sharon Hargus received a National Science Foundation grant for a study on Witsuwit'en Syntax and Intonation. The project will collect information on sentence-level grammar (syntax and intonation) of Witsuwit'en (bcr), an endangered Dene (Athabaskan) language spoken in northern British Columbia, Canada.
Emily M. Bender was an invited plenary speaker September 2, 2025 at the UNESCO Digital Learning Week in Paris, France. Her talk was titled "We do not have to accept AI (much less AGI) as inevitable in education". The UNESCO Digital Learning Week aims to foster critical reflection and meaningful collaboration in advancing the ethical and human-centered digital transformation of education.
Lance Forshay and Kristi Winter represented the American Sign Language program at the Fall Quarter World Language Fair. The fair was organized by the Language Learning Center and took place September 18th in the HUB 332.
At the end of August 2025, six members of the SocioLinx team (Alicia Wassink, Ty Gill-Saucier, Flo Humbert, Amina Venton, Chase Fossen, and Devyn Brandt) traveled to Tucson, Arizona to collect data for the Bias in ASR project.
We congratulate our colleague Sharon Hargus on her retirement from the Department of Linguistics in June 2025. Her hard work for the department and collegiality will be sorely missed.
Congratulations to Laura McGarrity who was promoted to Teaching Professor and Gina-Anne Levow and Betsy Evans who were promoted to Professor in June 2025!
We are so proud and happy to congratulate Laura McGarrity for receiving a 2025 Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Awards are among the highest forms of recognition for teaching excellence given at the University of Washington.
