Wenqi Zeng, a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics, has been awarded a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate College. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to benefit from a final semester of protected and supported time to focus on completing their scholarly research activities and the writing of their dissertations.

The proposed changes for fall 2025 will enhance collaboration and support student success.

Congratulations to Priya Kearney and Raegan Pallas, winners of the Best Student Poster Award for their poster presentations at this year’s Linguistic Day (March 29, 2024)!

The Department of Linguistics will offer a new Data Analytics focus for the MA in Linguistics beginning Fall 2024. The focus (12 semester hours of coursework beyond the core requirements) is designed to train students in the basics of experimental and linguistics-focused data analytics to better prepare them for career opportunities in industry as well as advanced graduate work in Linguistics.

Laura McDowell, who will receive a BA in linguistics and Spanish from the University of Iowa in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Turkey for 2023-24.

Olivia Dunn, who will receive an MA in linguistics from the University of Iowa in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Morocco for 2023-24. Follow the link provided to read about Olivia's thoughts on this achievement.

Onae Parker is the recipient of the Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2023. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. student to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Onae Parker is the recipient of a Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for 2023. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Please consider donating to the Department of Linguistics as part of this year’s One Day for Iowa campaign. Thank you!

Ethan Kutlu has published a paper, "Moving away from deficiency models: Gradiency in bilingual speech categorization", with Bob McMurray in Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) and Samantha Chiu, a graduate student in PBS.