About

Mission And Values

The mission of the Language Science Center is to advance an interdisciplinary science of language to address large-scale, complex problems in fundamental science and society.

What we do:

• Raise the profile of language as a critical research area - locally, nationally and internationally.
• Build connections between researchers, disciplines and institutions.
• Enable language scientists to address important questions in new ways.
• Improve awareness and public understanding of language issues and the need for language-related policy decisions to be scientifically informed.
• Increase the visibility of individuals’ and departments’ contributions to language science and to the University of Maryland.

UMD's Language Science Community

Language science is a broad field that cuts across many different areas of study and traditional academic departments. It integrates social and biological sciences with computer science and engineering, with strong roots in humanities, education, and clinical fields. 

The University of Maryland is home to over 200 language scientists in 22 different departments and centers. There is strength in numbers, but more important than our size is the level of connection and integration across disciplines and perspectives, in the form of collaborative research projects, co-mentoring of students, and co-teaching of interdisciplinary classes. The lively community provides the foundation for all else that we do.