Michael Obiri-Yeboah awarded Firebird Fellowship

Congratulations to Michael Obiri-Yeboah who was awarded a ~ $10,000 Firebird Foundation Fellowship to document the oral and cultural literature of the Boso Gua-speaking community in Ghana over the next two years. The Firebird Foundation supports the documentation of the oral literature and traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous people, helping to preserve endangered languages.

Congratulations to Priyanka Biswas!

Congrats to Priyanka Biswas, who is joining Apple as a Computational Linguist. She will be working to expand Siri’s functionality internationally.

Priyanka has lectured for the Department for the past two years, teaching a variety of courses (Languages and Cultures of America, Syntax, and Computational Linguistics). We are sad to see her go, but pleased to see where she’s going!