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2022

  • Brenda McKenna and Dr. Cora McKenna were selected for the Excellence in Community Linguistics Award by the LSA for their outstanding contributions towards the documentation and revitalization of their language, Nambé Tewa
  • Professors Melvatha Chee, Naomi Shin and Jill Morford established the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab and initiated the #CelebrateBilingualismNM! Campaign 

2021

  • Associate Professor Rosa Vallejos named the 2021-2023 Presidential Teaching Fellow
  • Professor Sherman Wilcox promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor

2020

  • Lecturer III Dawn Nordquist and Associate Professor Naomi Shin were selected for A&S Teaching Excellence Awards, and graduate students Motomi Kajitani and Josefina Bittar were awarded the Susan Deese Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistants.
  • The Navajo Language Program responded to the pandemic by offering virtual Diné Culture Nights that proved to be wildly popular.

2019

2018

2017

2016

  • Record year for student funding: 1 Mellon, 3 Bilinskis and 3 LAII Fellowships awarded to Linguistics graduate students.
  • Professor Emerita Joan Bybee elected Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society

2015

2014

2013

  • 11/25/2013: Adjunct Professor Ian Maddieson has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.