The New Sesquipedalian

Many congratulations to Ed King, who has received a Dissertation Fellowship from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research!

Congrats and sesquikudos to Annette, who has received a Centennial Teaching Award!

Established in 1989, this award recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching by teaching assistants in the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering.

Sesquikudos to Annette D’Onofrio, who has just been awarded a Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship! The Mellon Fellowship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and soial sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.

You can read more about the Mellon Fellowship here.

QPfest 2015 will take place on the afternoon of Friday, April 24. Mark your calendars!

Lauri Karttunen gave a talk at UT Austin Linguistics last Friday on “From Natural Logic to Natural Reasoning”.

Phil Crone will give a talk at the 29th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, April 9-11 at UW Milwaukee: “Arabic First Conjunct Agreement: Against Late Operations.”

Dan Lassiter will give a colloquium at UC Santa Cruz next Friday on “Nested and informative epistemic modals in a graphical models framework”.

…For all of his help in the 2015 AAAS meeting’s Family Science Days (San Jose meeting, Feb 12-16)!

Janneke’s work is featured in a Boston Globe piece on quotative “be like”, which you can read all about here.

We have a large number of student talks at the upcoming LSA annual meeting. We had one practice talk session on Wednesday, but Thursday’s scheduled talks were canceled due to inclement weather. Please join us for a makeup session on Monday December 15, 10AM-12:30PM in the Greenberg Room.