Three ARHU Faculty Win Do Good Innovator Awards
Perla M. Guerrero, Peter Mallios and Shevaun Lewis are among 57 staff and faculty from across campus who received the award.
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Project ProPELL: Rebecca Silverman directs a new $1.25M training grant focused on language, literacy and learning disabilities
June 22, 2015A 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.
Question: Which language scientists designed the first competitive quiz-bowl-playing NLP system?
June 19, 2015A question-answering system designed by researchers from UMD and the University of Colorado holds its own against a top human team.
PULSAR Students Shine
June 18, 2015PULSAR is one year old, and the first students to graduate are heading for new and exciting endeavors in language science.
Language Science, Policy and Advocacy: Alia Lancaster Making our CASE at AAAS
June 17, 2015Alia Lancaster (SLA, CASL) participated in a 3-day workshop organized by AAAS focusing on science policy and communication.
Language science meets 'The Wheels on the Bus' at Helix Center Roundtable
June 16, 2015Maryland language scientists are used to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration - but rarely sit down to discuss language science with psychoanalysts and children’s book authors.
Jeff MacSwan Honored as AERA Fellow
June 03, 2015Congratulations to Jeff MacSwan, who was recently named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association!
Faculty Spotlight: Matt Goupell
April 22, 2015How do listeners use their two ears to better understand speech in noisy environments, or to locate the source of a sound in the space around them?
Moving Beyond Big Data: $3M NSF Grant for Innovative Language Science Training
March 31, 2015The 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.
Future Language Scientists Compete in High School Olympiad
February 05, 2015Local high school students competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad at UMD on January 29.
Outreach Roadshow Hits Portland
January 26, 2015Why do language science outreach? Outreach enthusiasts from several universities share advice, tips, and tricks for do-it-yourself-ers at LSA 2015.