by Colin | May 25, 2015 | news, team |
Congratulations to Shota Momma and Ming Xiang on winning grants from the National Science Foundation. Both awards will support research on key problems in language processing, highlighted by properties of East Asian languages. Shota, currently a 4th year PhD student, ...
by Colin | Apr 5, 2015 | news, projects, soapbox, team, training |
We recently received a $3M training grant from the National Science Foundation (again!). We’re thrilled, surprised, and a bit daunted. And we’re also getting lots of questions. What makes for a strong funding proposal? And what does it take to build a successful...
by Colin | Sep 15, 2014 | events, news, soapbox, team |
I’ve been to many events called “workshops”. The name rarely fits, and looking back over the years, they generally don’t leave much of a mark. A couple of weeks ago I took part in a workshop that really deserved the name, and it was simply fantastic. It also had the...
by Colin | Aug 5, 2014 | news, team |
Excellent news for Akira Omaki (2010 PhD) – the National Science Foundation is supporting his research on the development of language processing mechanisms in children, to the tune of $390,000. The project is on “Development and adaptation of active...
by Colin | Jul 20, 2014 | news, team |
Congrats to Dr Dan Parker and Dr Sol Lago, who have finished their PhDs and are moving onwards and upwards. Dan’s dissertation is The Cognitive Basis for Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Structure. He’ll be moving one state away and a couple of hundred...
by Colin | Jun 12, 2014 | news, team |
Congrats to Allyson Ettinger on winning a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides 3 years of research support, in the form of stipend, tuition, and access to other resources, and is worth around $130,000 for 2014-2017. Allyson’s...
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