News

Line Mikkelsen wins Prytanean Prize: Department news - April 30, 2009
Line Mikkelsen wins Prytanean Award
Dan Slobin named AAAS fellow: Department news - April 23, 2009
Lev Michael receives grant for linguistic mapping project (BeLMaP): Research news - January 31, 2009
Lev Michael was recently awarded a $20,000 grant for a collaborative pilot project to develop tools to facilitate linguists' efforts to detect spatial patterns in linguistic data.
Richard Rhodes elected president of SSILA: Department news - January 29, 2009
Academic positions for recent Berkeley PhDs: Department news - January 1, 2009
Academic positions obtained by 2008 PhDs
Larry Hyman's linguistic field methods class featured in Science: Department news - November 1, 2008
Larry Hyman's Linguistic Field Methods course featured in the SF Chronicle: Department news - October 6, 2008
Breath of Life 2008 a great success: Department news - July 1, 2008
2009 Breath of Life workshop a great success
Andrew Garrett and Dan Slobin named LSA Fellows: Department news - July 1, 2008
Berkeley linguists named LSA fellows
Line Mikkelsen wins a Distinguished Teaching Award in the Division of Social Sciences: Department news - May 21, 2008
Gary Holland publishes "The Tale of Zalpa": Department news - April 14, 2008
Keith Johnson publishes new book: Quantitative Methods in Linguistics (2008): Department news - March 11, 2008
Alice Gaby is featured in a "Scientific American" podcast: Department news - March 9, 2008
George Lakoff wins 'Giulio Preti Prize for science and philosophy': Department news - November 1, 2007
Prof. George Lakoff has been awarded the first edition of 'Giulio Preti Prize for science and philosophy' from Pianet Galileo, a program of the Consiglio Regionale della Toscana.
Andrew Garrett wins the 2007 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award: Department news - April 25, 2007
Larry Hyman is elected an Honorary Fellow by the Linguistic Society of America: Department news - January 7, 2007
Leanne Hinton wins the 2006 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award for her work on language revitalization: Department news - November 6, 2006
John Ohala wins the 2006 International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Medal for Scientic Achievement: Department news - September 21, 2006