Celebrations
Alum Adam Chong moves to University of Oxford
Alum Adam Chong was recently promoted to Reader at the Queen Mary University London, Department of Linguistics. On September 1, 2025, he will be moving to University of Oxford as Associate Professor in […]
Alum Travis Major and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant
Alum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant for the project “The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation”. Congratulations Harold and Travis!
Boram Kim publishes in Glossa
Congratulations to 4th-year PhD candidate Boram Kim for having her paper “Not every finite CP is a phase” recently published in Glossa!
Congratulations to Dr. Daria Bahtina on Receiving the 2026 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Daria Bahtina on receiving the 2026 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in Undergraduate Mentorship! This well-deserved honor is UCLA’s highest recognition for teaching excellence. The […]
Congratulations to Dr. Silvestri for the UC-AFT Council on Professional Development Award
Congratulations to Dr. Giusi Silvestri for receiving a UC-AFT Council on Professional Development award for the project, “Syntax and semantics of expletive negation in Romance languages.”
Congratulations to Meg Cychosz!
Congratulations to Meg Cychosz, who has received an NIH KL2 sub-award (PI Mitchell Wong, UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute) ! Project title: Leveraging automatic speech recognition and neuro-imaging to develop […]
Congratulations to Ph.D. Alum Canaan Breiss on New Faculty Role at the University of Chicago
Our 2022 Ph.D alumus Canaan Breiss has accepted an offer as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Canaan!
Congratulations to Professor Harold Torrence!
Congratulations to Professor Harold Torrence on receiving a grant through the Faculty Forward Initiative from the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion! The funding will support the project Supporting URM […]
Congratulations to Professor Victoria Mateu on Receiving Inaugural UCLA Global Research Grant
The UCLA Department of Linguistics proudly congratulates Professor Victoria Mateu on being selected as a recipient in the inaugural cohort of UCLA’s Global Teaching and Research Grants. Through this award, […]
Dhanya Charan awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research & Creativity for her honors thesis in Linguistics
Dhanya Charan, a third-year Cognitive Science and Linguistics & Psychology double major at UCLA, was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity for her honors thesis in […]
Graduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute
Graduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of […]
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks workshop
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and […]