Bulletin Board

Paul Bloom (Yale U) won the Association of American Publishers competition for outstanding professional and scholarly titles of 2000 in psychology for his book How children learn the meaning of words (MIT Press).
Susan Steele (U CT) has been named provost and dean of faculty at Mills C (CA).
Alice ter Meulen (U Groningen) was recently inaugurated a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.
National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC) :
Tista Bagchi (U Delhi) and Kristin Hanson (UC-Berkeley) were appointed fellows for academic year 2001-02.

During 2001, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), of which the Society is a member, is sponsoring a series of town meetings on various aspects of copyright and fair use. The first two meetings were in Chicago (3 March) and Houston (25 April). Others are scheduled for Denver (28 June), New York (24 September), Cincinnati (27 October), and Eugene (19 November). For more information, check: http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2001.html.)

As part of its school outreach efforts, the Decade of Behavior has established 15-19 October 2001 as 'Exploring Behavior Week'. The American Psychological Association has prepared a brochure with suggestions on how to involve K-12 students in psychological science that may spark some ideas for those who wish to bring linguistics into the K-12 environment. A presentation template and instruction booklet are on the web at: apa.org/science/ebw.html. For more information, contact: science@apa.org.

The Letters and Sciences Executive Committee at UC-Berkeley has unanimously approved ASL as a fulfillment of the undergraduate language requirement for graduation. As soon as the procedures for certifying proficiency are in place, students will be able to use ASL to fulfill their language requirement.

The application deadline for this program is 1 October 2001. Members will be interested to learn that stipends will be increased this year from $4,000 to $5,000. Scholars wishing to apply for support under this program are encouraged to contact: NEH Summer Stipends, Rm 318, NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,Washington, DC 20506; (202) 606-8200; stipends@neh.gov; http://www.neh.gov/grants/onebook.html/.

Mark Turner, professor of English language and literature and a member of the faculty of the doctoral program in neuroscience and cognitive sciences at U MD-College Park, will become associate director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, effective 1 January 2002. He will succeed Robert A. Scott, who is retiring after 18 years of services as associate director.

A volume of poetry by linguists is being prepared. Individuals may submit poems and/or translations of poems (up to ten pieces total) with a brief biography and a statement (up to 500 words) on links between work as a linguist and the writing of poetry to: Andrew Sunshine, 222 W. 83rd St., #9E, New York, NY 10024; sonsign@jps.net. The deadline is 1 October 2001. Work submitted in languages other than English should be accompanied by both literal and poetic translations.

Semanticsarchive.net, a website for exchanging papers on natural language semantics and related topics, welcomes papers by semanticists from all theoretical perspectives, and at all levels, from senior researchers to graduate students. At present, the archive contains more than 60 papers by more than 30 different authors as well as links to semantics resources on the web. The archive interface emphasizes simplicity in order to make searching, browsing, uploading, and downloading as easy as possible. Papers are accepted in a wide variety of file formats. For further information see: http://semanticsarchive.net.

Armenian Dialectology. 10-25 August 2001 in Stepanakert, Armenia. Contact: Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos, Responsable de la Section d'armenien, Inst Natl des Langs & Civs Orientales (INALCO), 2 rue de Lille, 75343 Paris Cedex 7, France; Anaid.Donabedian@inalco.fr.

Systemic Functional Linguistics Summer Institute. 8-21 July 2001 at Carleton U, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Contact: lsfc28@carleton.ca; http://www.carletn.ca/isfc28/.

Eurolan 2001. 30 July - 11 August 2001 in Iasi, Romania. Theme: Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources. Contact: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001.

European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 13th (ESSLLI-2001). 13-24 August 2001 in Helsinki, Finland. Contact: ESLLI2001 Sec, Dept Phil, PO Box 24, Unioninkatu 40 B, Helsinki U, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; esslli@helsinki.fi; http://ww.helsinki.fi/esslli.)