Professor Sophie Hao awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship
BU Ling’s very own Professor Sophie Hao was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship! The Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting truly interdisciplinary work and either hold or have the potential to hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU. Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in […]
Andre Batchelder-Schwab awarded Lewis and Clark field scholarship
Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding to continue his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! To learn more about the scholarships, see https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research
Jackson Kellogg awarded a GRAF
Very exciting news, PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence […]
Grant: Najoung Kim
Congrats to Najoung Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science! Open Philanthropy recommended a grant over two years to support a project evaluating the abilities of large language models (LLMs) led by Professor Najoung Kim and Professor Sebastian Schuster. To learn more, check out this article from BU!