Congratulations to PhD student Liv Bianchini, who recently won a Gorilla Language & Linguistics Grant! The award will help fund her dissertation research into the social and cognitive processing of interjections.
In August 2025 Gary Holton participated in the annual Eyak Culture Camp in Cordova, Alaska. The event drew over 30 participants from across Alaska and the US to the ancestral lands of the Eyak (dAXunhyuu) people for five days of…
Instructor Zoh Qureshi recently gave a presentation at the Deaf Academic Conference on cultural pedagogy, emphasizing the importance of being open to borrowing signs from other countries as a way to foster excellence in teaching. Held at the University of…
Dr. Sharon Bulalang (PhD., 2020) published her new book, Western Subanon Grammar, in December 2024. It was published as a part of the Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects (Brill), which was established through a collaboration among the National Institute…
Our department was well represented at the Japanese-Korean Linguistics conference at Cornell (June 13-15). Professor William O’Grady was a keynote speaker in the AI session, one of our alumni (Sungdai Cho, Binghamton University) was a conference organizer, and alumni Nozomi…
Carolyn Siegman gave a paper presentation at the conference Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT 2025), which was held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany from June 3-5, 2025. The title of her presentation was "Classifying…
Professor Andrew Cheng and Professor Haʻa Solomon (PhD, 2024) have been mentoring undergraduate research, in a project lauded as the “ideal use of UROP funding”. Read more about it here. One of the mentees is now a graduate student in…
Congratulations to PhD student Orlyn Joyce Esquivel, who is a two-time recipient of an award from the Dr. Teresita V. Ramos Endowment for Philippine Languages, Literature, Culture, and Filipino American Studies, and a new recipient of an award from the…
Professor Emanuel (Manny) Drechsel has become Professor Emeritus, in recognition of his long-standing meritorious contributions to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Professor Drechsel is known for publications that include Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American…
Carl Polley (PhD, 2012) has been awarded a 2025 Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching for his outstanding instruction in linguistics and Chinese language at Kapiʻolani Community College. Congratulations, Professor Polley!