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Photo gallery from the Winter Storm 2015 two-week language science workshop.

Photos from Language Science Day 2014

Maria Polinsky

We are delighted to welcome Maria (Masha) Polinsky to the language science community at Maryland.

It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Long, who died on February 21st. Mike was a Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland for the past 16 years.

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 language science with psychoanalysts and children’s book authors. At the end of April, Colin Phillips did just that as part of a prestigious roundtable on 'The Mind of a Child' at the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation in New York.

Photos from the Neuro, Cognitive, and Language Science tent at Maryland Day, April 25, 2015.

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