HESP has partnered with the Jewish Social Services Agency to provide hearing aids to local holocaust survivors.
Jan Edwards (UW-Madison) will be joining UMD’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and the Language Science Center starting in Fall 2016.
On September 25th, the 6th annual Language Science Day (LSD) drew a crowd of almost 200 people - plus a couple of une
Join us in congratulating our 2015 language science PhD graduates on their excellent job placements around the world.
A team of faculty in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education (CHSE) has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education Leadership Preparation grant.
A question-answering system designed by researchers from UMD and the University of Colorado holds its own against a top human team.
PULSAR is one year old, and the first students to graduate are heading for new and exciting endeavors in language science.
Alia Lancaster (SLA, CASL) participated in a 3-day workshop organized by AAAS focusing on science policy and communication.
Maryland language scientists are used to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration - but rarely sit down to discuss
Congratulations to Jeff MacSwan, who was recently named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association!
How do listeners use their two ears to better understand speech in noisy environments, or to locate the source of a s
The National Science Foundation has announced that the University of Maryland’s Language Science Center (LSC) will receive a $3M grant for innovative research and graduate training.
Local high school students competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad at UMD on January 29.
Why do language science outreach? Outreach enthusiasts from several universities share advice, tips, and tricks for do-it-yourself-ers at LSA 2015.
