About
The Basics
Membership
All UMD faculty, staff, and students involved in research, teaching, or study related to language science are eligible to become members of the Language Science Center. Join now!
Community Guidlines
This is a community where everyone has something to learn from everyone else, both faculty and students.It is important to keep our guidelines in mind when interacting with other students and faculty, especially those from different backgrounds.
Space and Resources
We’re happy to offer MLSC rooms to our community. Rooms can be reserved for meetings, talks, research studies, defenses, poster sessions, and other events. We occasionally have spare office space for visiting scholars.
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.