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Undergrad Abby Neer wins Fulbright Scholarship

Congrats, Abby Neer! She has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and is heading to South Korea to teach English. Abby will...

Welcome Visiting Scholar Dr. Jun Nagao

Please welcome visiting scholar Jun Nagao to the Department! Jun writes:

"I am an Associate Professor at Gifu Shotoku Gakuen...

John R. Starr Wins Beinecke Scholarship

Undergraduate student John R. Starr has been awarded a Beinecke...

Pitt Linguistics at American Association of Applied LInguistics Conference!

Pitt LING past and present was heavily represented at the recent American Association for Applied Linguistics conference in Atlanta.  Dr...

Tenure-track position for Holman Tse, PhD!

Congratulations to Holman Tse, who will begin a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in...

New Dietrich School of A&S "Flash Classes"

The Teaching Center's Academic Digital Media unit has been collaborating with faculty from the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences on...

Congratulations to Dr. Li-Fang Lai who starts a post-doc at Penn State!

Li-Fang Lai, who recently earned her PhD, has started a Postdoctoral...

Faculty present on ESL topics at conferences

While students are on Spring Break this week, ELI Director Dr. Alan Juffs and ELI Associate Director Dr. Dawn E. McCormick have been...

Farrah Neumann receives Dissertation Grant from Language Learning

Ph.D. candidate Farrah Neumann has received a Dissertation Grant...

LING Minor Zac Enick wins PittHonors THINK Fellowship Project to study speech patterns of Pittsburgh's early Italian immigrants

Tech meets talk:  Programming unveils an interesting quirk in the speech patterns of Pittsburgh's early Italian immigrants...

Japanese Students at the ELI Celebrate Seijin Shiki -- Coming of Age

Twenty-four students from Yasuda Women's University studying English at the English Language Institute were among the 34 Japanese...