Walt Wolfram will receive an honorary doctorate of letters and give the commencement address at Concordia University-Chicago for the fall semester 2011.
LSA Members Peter Culicover (The Ohio State University), Penelope Eckert (Stanford University) and Jay Jasanoff (Harvard University) were inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 1, 2011.
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University/LSA President (2003)) was awarded two honorary degrees in October, from the National Music University of Bucharest and from the Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Read more...
Nick Evans (Australian National University) has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Read more...
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State), David Pesetsky (MIT), and Eric Potsdam (University of Florida) were elected Fellows of the AAAS last December. Read more...
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa receives $500,000 award for graduate fellowships in Linguistics and Second Language Studies. Read more...
Richard S. Kayne (New York University) received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Bucharest on 31 May 2011.
In an interim appointment, Heather Hardy (University of Nevada, Reno) has been named Provost of that institution. Read more...
Dr Mark Post, a Post-Doctoral fellow at SASS/Cairns Institute, has received a top award - the 'Panini award', from the Association for Linguistic Typology for the best PhD thesis (2007-2010), for his ' A Grammar of Galo' (La Trobe University, 2007).
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (Forschungspreis), based at the Institute for Afrikanistik at the University of Cologne (2010-12).
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