Congratulations
Alexa T. McCray has been named director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications in the National Library of Medicine (NIH).
Keren Rice (U Toronto) has been named editor of IJAL.
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Donka Minkova (UCLA) was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow.
2003 Summer Linguistic Institute
Interested in organizing a workshop, conference, or other event in connection with the 2003 Summer Linguistic Institute (30 June -- 8 August 2003, Michigan State University)? Please contact: Barbara Abbott, Dept Ling & Langs, A-614 Wells, MI SU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1027; abbottb@msu.edu.
Academic Collective Bargaining
The Modern Language Association, in collaboration with the American Association of University Professors, is planning a book on academic collective bargaining. The projected book will contain a section of essays (5-10 manuscript pages each) reflecting a broad range of individual perspectives (pros and cons) and experiences (administrators, full-time and part-time faculty, graduate assistants, academic staff) that will discuss significant issues and questions related to academic collective bargaining. For further information contact: Joseph Gibaldi, MLA, 26 Broadway, 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10004-1789; fax: (646) 458-0030; JGibaldi@mla.org.
New AAAS CEO
Alan I. Leshner began his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on 3 December 2001. Dr. Leshner was formerly the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. He replaced Richard A. Nicholson who retired from the position he had held since 1989.
New Journal
Lingue e Linguaggio will be published semi-annually (first issue, June 2002). Essentially a journal of theoretical linguistics, it aims to promote and report interactions between linguistics and other related fields such as genetics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive science, and computer science. Contact: Ufficio abbonamenti, Societš editrice il Mulino, Strada Maggiore 37, 40125 Bologna, Italy; 39-51-256-011; fax: 39-51-256-041; diffusione@mulino.it.
Publishers Donations
The Linguistic Society appreciates the generosity of the six publishers who donated the proceeds from the sale of their display copies to the LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship Fund. Annual Meeting Joint Book Exhibit participants were: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Palgrave Global Publishing, Yale University Press, University of California-Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Department of Linguistics, and Ohio State University Department of Linguistics.
Re-envisioning the PhD
This project is dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the PhD to meet the societal needs of the 21st century? Visit the newly designed website (http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/) to learn more about resources and to contribute to the ongoing dialogue. Contact email: envison@u.washington.edu.
Senior Scientists and Engineers Program
A volunteer program sponsored by AAAS and funded in part by NSF, the SSE is a cooperative effort of leading scientific, engineering, and medical societies that was established under the aegis of the AAAS to make available the knowledge and expertise of its retired members to meet the needs of society. For the past 10 years, the Washington, DC, chapter has focused its efforts in three general areas: government, education, and community service. As in any organization, there is turnover and the need to replenish the ranks. Retired members of the Linguistic Society are encouraged to investigate this oppportunity to volunteer for the SSE program: (202) 326-6602; fax: (202) 371-9849 (fax); sse@aaas.org.
Why Learn Another Language?
MLA's color brochure "Why Learn Another Language" is again available free of charge. Packets of 20 may be obtained by writing to: flbrochure@mla.org or: Office of Foreign Language Programs, MLA, 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1789. Requests of up to 300 copies will be honored. The brochure is also available for downloading in PDF and HTML files at http://www.adfl.org.
Summer Institutes
Deutsche Gesellschaft fôr Sprachwissenschaft 2002 Special Linguistic Summer Program. 14 July - 3 August 2002. Heinrich-Heine-University, Dôsseldorf, Germany. Contact: Summer Prog, Anglistik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universitÿt Dôsseldorf, Universitÿtsstr. 1, D-40225, DÙôseldorf, Germany; fax: 49-211-81-15292; http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/summerschool2002/.
European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 14th (ESSLLI-2002). 13-24 August 2002 in Trento, Italy. Contact: Claire Garden, ESSLLI-2002, LORIA, BP239 Campus Scientifique, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France; 33-3-83-59-2039; fax: 33-3-83-27-5652; claire.garden@loria.fr; http://www.esslli.org/2002/html.
North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 1st (NASSLLI). 24-30 June 2002 at Stanford University. Contact: NASSLLI 2002, Dept. Phil, Stanford U, Stanford, CA 94305-2155; fax: 650-723-0985; http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli.
In Memoriam
A. Machtelt
Bolkestein (U Amsterdam)
Mary Lecron Foster (Berkeley, CA)
Maurice Gross Hideyuki Hirano (Tohoku U)
Peter Juscyzk (Johns Hopkins U)
Jerrold J. Katz (CUNY Grad Ctr)
Nicolas Ruwet (Paris, France)