Bulletin Board

Linda Coleman (U MD-College Park) is presenting a course on 'The History of the English Language' as part of the Smithsonian Institution's fall 2000 Campus on the Mall program in Washington, DC.
Virginia Fichera (SUNY-Oswego) received the Ruth E. Wasley Distinguished Teacher Award Post-Secondary for 2000 from the New York State Association of Foreign LanguageTeachers.
Marianne Mithun (UC-Santa Barbara) was awarded an honorary doctorate from U Oslo.
Victor Raskin (Purdue U) was honored 29 September 2000 for his leadership in developing the linguistics program at Purdue. His contributions were recognized at a special symposium; speakers included Thomas A. Sebeok and several of Dr. Raskin's former students.
John Rickford (Stanford U) and co-author Russell John Rickford were among the winners of the 21st annual American Book Awards for their book, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (Wiley, 2000). The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, an organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature.
American Council of Learned Societies: Victor A. Friedman (U Chicago), Kim Gareiss (U Chicago), S. Robert Ramsey (U MD-College Park), and David D. Testen (U Chicago) were awarded fellowships.

Dr. Douglas McAdam, professor of sociology at Stanford U, has been named the sixth director of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He succeeds Neil Smelser who has been director since 1994.

The Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP) sponsors an Endangered Languages Homepage attached to the Linguist site at: http://linguist.emich.edu/el~page. CELP encourages those interested to participate in this project by becoming 'curators' for categories on the homepage. For details, contact Megan Crowhurst at: mcrowhurst@mail.utexas.edu.

Section 8 of the LSA Constitution, 'Article II. Membership', states, 'Any person who has held membership for 40 years may apply for and automatically receive life membership in the Society, and thereafter be exempt from payment of annual dues.' We are pleased to announce the following long-time members earned this distinction in 2000: Shri Dixit, Frank Gladney, Victor Golla, C. Douglas Johnson, Toru Kono, S. Y. Kuroda, Peter Ladefoged, Margaret Langdon, Ki Moon Lee, Tokuichiro Matsuda, Tsu-lin Mei, Jacob Mey, John Moyne, Carlos Patino, Richard Payne, Paul Postal, R. Radhakrishnan, James Redden, Erica Reiner, Gerald Sanders, Charles Scott, Hugh Stimson, and Fredric Weingartner.

The forum lectures presented during the 1999 Linguistic Institute have been published in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 29.2 (Fall 1999). Included are lectures by Eve Clark, Ronald Langacker, Janet Pierrehumbert, Masayoshi Shibatani, Sarah Thomason, and Arnold Zwicky, with a preface by the editor, Adele Goldberg, director of the 1999 Institute. To order, send $10.00 (plus $2.00 postage for the first copy; $1.50 for each additional copy) to: Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 4088 Foreign Languages Bldg., 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801.

'The 21st century will be the century of the social, behavioral, and economic sciences,' declared Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation director, at her 26 May appearance before the Advisory Committee to NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate. She called the SBE Directorate 'one of the most important directorates of NSF in the next 20 years and beyond.' Seeking to understand how and why people behave will become a greater focus of research as we move through this new millennium. With new tools and a new infusion of research funding, these sciences will become newly invigorated, Colwell said. She voiced her continued committment to a major initiative for the SBE Directorate in the NSs FY 2003 budget.

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