Doctoral students Anu Reddy and Youngin Lee presented at the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA) held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (May 2-4, 2024). Youngin's paper was titled "How adults interpret disjunction under negation…
Professor Andrew Cheng (Linguistics) and Professor Haʻalilio Solomon (Kawaihuelani) have been awarded a $10,000 Mentoring Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Work from UROP. The project, "Undergraduate-led Linguistics Researchin Hawaiian Phonetics at the Kūpinaʻi Language Center” will fund research…
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the soft launching of the Kūpinaʻi Language Center (Moore Hall 151), which took place on April 23, 2024. The event was the first installment of the Lauhoe Speaker Series, funded by the…
Henry Osborne presents at MILS Michol Miller and Armando Molina Gomez at MILS Rui Yamawaki presents at MILS Students in the Department of Linguistics co-hosted the 1st Mānoa Interdepartmental Language Symposium (MILS), April 5-7, 2024. MILS was organized by students…
PhD student Louward Zubiri has received the 2024 Student Award for Excellence in Research at the Doctoral Level. This is an annual competition hosted by the UHM Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, and recognizes Louward's many…
Dr. Khairunnisa Dr. Khairunnisa, who also goes by “Nisa,” completed her PhD in the Department of Linguistics in 2022 and has recently joined BRIN, The National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia, as a permanent researcher. BRIN is the sole…
Professor Shelece Easterday has been awarded the 2023-2024 Mānoa Excellence Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching. This award recognizes faculty members who have made significant contributions to teaching and student learning. The award honors an extraordinary level of subject mastery and…
Alumna Michelle Kamigaki-Baron (MA 2020) was featured on Hawaiʻi Public Radio on March 28 2024 for her doctoral research on the benefits of Hawaiʻi Pidgin on learning ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. Michelle is currently a PhD student at the University of British…
Dr. Akiemi Glenn Dr. Akiemi Glenn earned her PhD in the UHM Department of Linguistics in 2012, and has since become a leader in the nonprofit world in Honolulu. She is the Founder and Executive Director of The Pōpolo Project,…
Stephanie Witkowski Stephanie Witkowski, who graduated from the UH Mānoa Department of Linguistics with an MA in 2013, is currently the Executive Director of 7000 Languages, a nonprofit organization that partners with Indigenous communities worldwide to create language learning materials…