By Felina Martinez, Advance at UNMNovember 11, 2020
Women in STEM researchers from The University of New Mexico's Linguistics department have recently created the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab (LLA LLA), a new research lab focused on child minority language acquisition at The University of New...
University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics Naomi Shin has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.
“This award is a tremendous honor to me. I care so deeply about teaching...
University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway and Health Sciences Center Chancellor Dr. Paul Roth recently announced the promotion of seven UNM faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor.
The rank...
University of New Mexico alumna Jacqueline Hirsh Greene is supposed to go to Germany soon. But as so many in the UNM community have experienced, plans were upended by the pandemic shutdown.
Hirsh Greene graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts...
It was somewhere around the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and the San Francisco music scene was thriving when a new art form evolved. To promote concerts by not-yet-legendary musicians like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis...
Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology (Ethnology) at The University of New Mexico, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. Jacobsen holds a Ph.D. in Cultural...
Shelece Easterday, who received her Ph.D. in linguistics from The University of New Mexico in 2017, has received this year’s Joseph Greenberg Award from the Association for Linguistic Typology for the best piece of typological research embodied in a...
A new study indicates the prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have now grown to 1 in 40, a jump from the rate of 1 in 65 published just two years ago. Indeed, ASD is now the fastest growing neurodevelopmental disorder in the U.S.
Social...
The UNM campus and local theater community is mourning the loss of colleague and friend Alan Hudson, linguistics professor emeritus.
A native of Ireland, Hudson completed his Ph.D. at Yeshiva University on language attitudes and came to UNM in 1974....
The Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies (LLSS) and the Department of Linguistics are mourning the loss of colleague and friend Veronka (Vera) John-Steiner, a presidential professor emerita who passed away on Dec. 6, 2017.
All...