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Omar Alkhonini, a linguistics doctoral candidate at GMU and a graduate lecturer, is the first recipient of the Outstanding Qualifying Paper Award

Dr. Sylvia Schreiner (Assistant Professor of Linguistics), in collaboration with her colleague Dr. Lane Schwartz at UIUC, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for the study of St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik.

Liz Pratt is the 2018 winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student in Linguistics award. The following is a short Q&A about her time here at Mason.

This spring, Harim Kwon joins us as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. She is broadly interested in the nature of the cognitive representations of human speech sounds and the relationship of these representations to their physical aspects.

Her research is in syntax, morphology, semantics, and language documentation.

This fall, Cynthia Lukyanenko joins us as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, teaching Research Methods and First Language Acquisition.

The mood in EagleBank Arena was lively on May 18 and 19, as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences held its degree celebration ceremonies. Congratulations again to all of our graduates! We are pleased to welcome you to an impressive community of alumni, made only stronger by the class of 2017.

The Arab Exchange Network at Mason brings new and experienced Arabic speakers together for conversation and learning.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the May 2017 degree celebrations will be led by two outstanding alumni: chief historian for the White House Historical Association, Edward Lengel, and Lt. Col. Suzanne Devlin, a former acting chief of police for the Fairfax County Police Department and the current supervisor of safety and security for Loudoun County Public Schools.