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Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight

UBC Linguistics’ Newest Faculty Member Featured in Quanta Magazine

January 28, 2025
Achievements, Announcements, Event Highlights, Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight

Prof. Henry Davis awarded prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal

January 22, 2025
Alumni, Spotlight

UBC Linguistics Alumnus Jennifer Glougie Reappointed as Chair of BC Labour Relations Board and Employment Standards Tribunal

January 7, 2025

New Publication: Kaili Vesik and Kathleen Hall in Canadian Journal of Linguistics

December 21, 2024
Labs & Groups, Research, Spotlight

Labs of Ling event 2024

December 4, 2024
In the Media, Labs & Groups, Research, Spotlight

ISRL projects featured by Acoustical Society of America

November 7, 2024

Yadong Liu defends his PhD

October 31, 2024
Event Highlights, Graduate, Research, Spotlight

UBC Linguistics at Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Italy

September 19, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

MDS Spotlight: Meet Daniel Jimenez, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2024

August 26, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

MDS Spotlight: Meet Claudia Beth Ong, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2024

August 15, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

MDS Spotlight: Meet Max Ahluwalia, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2024

July 26, 2024
Alumni

2024 Alumni Q&A

May 28, 2024
Faculty

New Faculty Q&A

May 10, 2024
Achievements, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Ife successfully defended her dissertation

January 24, 2024
Achievements, Spotlight

Grace Bengtson and Yadong Liu won best poster presentations

October 17, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Spotlight

Jian Zhu receives Hampton Grant

October 17, 2023
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Mitchi and Starr selected as Public Scholar 2023/2024

September 26, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate

MDS Spotlight: Meet Meiyu Zheng, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023

September 12, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate

MDS Spotlight: Meet Michelle Yun, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023

August 28, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate

MDS Spotlight: Meet Kai Maurin-Jones, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023

August 21, 2023
Achievements, Graduate, Research, Spotlight, Students

Stanley Nam wins best student presentation award at ICKL 23

July 27, 2023
Graduate, Research

Raiane Salles' successful PhD defense

July 23, 2023
Labs & Groups, Publications, Research

Exciting new publications from the ISRL

May 26, 2023

Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti wins best poster presentation

May 23, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Dr. Sóskuthy awarded Early Career Researcher Award 2023 by CLA

May 3, 2023
Spotlight, Students

Anna Stacey wins the Edna Dharmaratne Award 2023

April 24, 2023
Spotlight, Students

Featured MDS Computational Linguistics Projects

April 5, 2023
Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight

Professor Garrett featured in Ubyssey

March 24, 2023
Faculty, Research

New publications

March 16, 2023
Faculty, Graduate, Research

New publication: Vowel space reduction in Alzheimer's Disease

March 9, 2023
Alumni, Students

Recent graduate Chelsea featured in UBC news article

March 3, 2023
Graduate

Ife Adebara and Prof Abdul-Mageed featured in UBC News

February 23, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

New paper out

January 4, 2023
Faculty, Research

New publication by Profs. Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson

December 21, 2022
Faculty, Publications, Research

New issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods published

December 13, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Prof. Henry Davis featured in Lang. Sci. story about PNWLL Press

October 12, 2022

Edna Dharmaratne Award goes to Nandita Pisharody Suresh

October 7, 2022

UBC NACLO participant wins bronze in International Linguistics Olympiad

September 29, 2022
Faculty, Publications

New publication by Chris Hammerly

September 14, 2022
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

MDS-CL project featured in NASA article

September 13, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate

MDS Spotlight: Meet Saffrin Granby, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2022

September 8, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Students

Meet Nihal D’Souza, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2022

September 2, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Students

Meet Oksana Kurylo, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2022

August 25, 2022

New paper on "Frustratives"

August 22, 2022
Spotlight

Joanne Francis passed away

July 11, 2022
Students

Linguistics summer camp

July 7, 2022

Kenna McEwan joins as the new Graduate Program Assistant

July 7, 2022
Faculty, Graduate, Publications, Research

New publication

June 17, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Graduate, Research

"Nobody’s Perfect": New paper out

June 15, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Prof. Abdul-Mageed is the new Canada Research Chair

June 2, 2022
Faculty, Publications

Special issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods is out

May 28, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Students

Holly Davies wins the Governor General's Silver Medal in Arts

May 28, 2022
Achievements, Graduate, Students

Marianne Huijsmans will join U of Alberta

May 15, 2022
Achievements, Graduate, Research, Students

Marianne Huijsmans receives the Community-University Engagement Support fund

April 22, 2022
Announcements

CreteLing summer school has been officially announced

March 5, 2022
Faculty

Professor Abdul-Mageed on CTV Morning Live

February 3, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate

Khia Johnson successfully defends her dissertation

December 14, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, Spotlight

Anne-Michelle's podcast

December 2, 2021
Achievements, Faculty

Rose-Marie Déchaine has been promoted to the rank of Professor

November 26, 2021
Achievements, Students

Chelsea Jang wins the Edna Dharmaratne Award

November 15, 2021
Achievements, Faculty

Marci Sóskuthy promoted to associate professor

June 5, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Students

Library site highlights syntax class Wikipedia projects

June 3, 2021
Announcements

Sav Nijeboer is our new manager of administration

June 2, 2021
Announcements

Statement on the Kamloops Indian Residential School atrocity

May 31, 2021
Achievements, Alumni

PhD alumna Heather Bliss wins CLA early career researcher award

May 28, 2021
Achievements, Alumni, Faculty, Spotlight

Joash Gambarage wins UBC public engagement award

May 25, 2021
Alumni, Graduate, Students

Alumna Jennifer Abels interviewed on life & employment beyond the PhD

May 22, 2021
Achievements, Faculty

Strang Burton promoted

May 20, 2021
Announcements, Event Highlights, Students

UBC electronically hosts Northwest Linguistics Conference

May 11, 2021
Achievements, Graduate, Labs & Groups, Students

Nicolai and Lo win international pronunciation prediction competition

May 11, 2021
Alumni

PhD program grad Sonja Thoma interviewed about her work with Indigenous languages

April 21, 2021
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

PhD alumnus John Lyon accepts tenure-track position at UBC-O

March 28, 2021
Faculty, In the Media

Abdul-Mageed in the Globe and Mail on Twitter and COVID-19

March 8, 2021
Achievements, Graduate, Students

Hannah Green and Roger Lo receive TA teaching award

February 8, 2021
Announcements, Students

UBC to host Northwest Linguistics Conference in May

December 15, 2020
Faculty, Graduate, Publications, Research

Oksana and Muhammad’s research featured in Pithy Papers

December 10, 2020
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Bryan Gick named AAAS Fellow

November 24, 2020
Announcements

New course on the languages of Africa

November 20, 2020
Achievements, Graduate

Three grad students recognized as UBC Public Scholars

November 3, 2020
Achievements, Graduate, Students

Two students win Edna Dharmaratne Award

October 26, 2020
Announcements, In the Media

Ryan Bochnak profiled

September 28, 2020
Announcements, Research, Spotlight

Samuel Akinbo on talking drums

September 16, 2020
Announcements

Sóskuthy and Abdul-Mageed receive infrastructure grants

August 27, 2020
Announcements

Nigel Howard offers ASL classes

August 27, 2020
Announcements

How about learning some Swahili?

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Abdul-Mageed in Medium on the language of COVID-19

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Graduating students nominated for leadership awards

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Bryan Gick on speaking moistly

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Coronavirus phonetics cookbook

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Nigel Howard profiled in connection with dynamic COVID-19 interpretation

August 26, 2020
Announcements

West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Undergrad Paris Gappmayr is a finalist in a thesis competition

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Galia Freiwirth wins Dharmaratne Award

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Gitksan Lab -- In the spotlight!

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Guggenheim Fellow!

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Congratulations -- Outstanding Dissertation

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Three new PhDs!

August 26, 2020
Announcements

Abdul-Mageed interviewed on tweet dataset

July 23, 2020
Announcements

COVID-19 staffing & support update

March 19, 2020
Announcements

All talks for next few weeks canceled

March 13, 2020
Announcements

Bryan Gick and Arian Shamei on the astronomy-linguistics interface

February 5, 2020
Announcements

A Statement on the Climate Strike

September 20, 2019
Announcements

New volume from UBCWPL: Ruby’s Stories

August 11, 2019
Announcements

Congratulations 2019 Graduates!

May 28, 2019
Announcements

50th Anniversary Celebration

April 4, 2019
Announcements

Congratulations -- Student Leaders

March 25, 2019
Announcements

"Good Vibrations" and Understanding Speech

March 4, 2019
Announcements

Re-cap: Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference

February 24, 2019
Announcements

Congratulations to Bryan Gick, Newly Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

November 6, 2018
Announcements

Festschrift in Honour of Henry Davis

October 28, 2018
Announcements

In Memoriam: Michael Rochemont

July 6, 2018
Announcements

Congrats 2018 Grads!

May 31, 2018
Announcements

LSURC Award Winners

January 24, 2018
Announcements

Michael Fry - Research Review

January 15, 2018
Announcements

New Publication: WSCLA 21

January 15, 2018
Announcements

Retirement: Edna Dharmaratne

October 2, 2017
Announcements

Sad news: Dr. Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson

May 31, 2017
Announcements

New book: Sqwéqwel’s Nelh Skelkekla7lhkálha: Tales of Our Elders

May 9, 2017
Announcements

Computational Linguistics at the Vancouver Summer Program

March 22, 2017
Announcements

St'at'imcets Narratives volume by Carl Alexander

October 18, 2016
Announcements

CAREER PATHWAYS

June 2, 2016
Announcements

Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal: Marianne Huijsmans

May 17, 2016
Announcements

Outstanding Leader: Aidan Pine

March 29, 2016
Announcements

Future Speakers Series

February 4, 2016
Announcements

Chair of African Studies Program

September 15, 2015
Announcements

Annual Meeting on Phonology

September 15, 2015
Announcements

50th Annual International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages

July 10, 2015
Announcements

June 23, 2015
Announcements

Fun with Language!

April 20, 2015
Announcements

ICSNL Conference!

April 13, 2015
Announcements

UBC-wide 3MT Winner!

March 16, 2015
Announcements

"Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork"

November 14, 2014
Announcements

Congratulations, Dr. Heather Bliss!

November 6, 2014
Announcements

Flexible Learning & Large Classes

October 30, 2014
Announcements

BBC "On Language Location" Radio Series

October 18, 2014
Announcements

FNLG Courses

September 5, 2014
Announcements

Congrats: SSHRC Talent Award Finalist Heather Bliss

September 3, 2014
Announcements

Undergrad Research Positions

August 20, 2014
Announcements

UBC Working Papers in Linguistics

July 12, 2014
Announcements

Courses Outside Linguistics

May 21, 2014
Announcements

Congratulations, graduates!

May 16, 2014
Announcements

Full List Of Alumni Dissertations & Theses

May 14, 2014
Announcements

Congrats to our student leaders!

March 26, 2014
Announcements

Linguistics In The News!

February 26, 2014
Announcements

SULA 8

February 26, 2014
Announcements

UBC Linguistics Initiative Helps Preserve Endangered Languages

February 26, 2014
Announcements

Congrats To Our Grads!

February 26, 2014
Announcements

About Department

May 29, 2013