Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Eva Rothenberg

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Julie Wechsler

Award for Excellence in the Study of Spanish and Linguistics
• Madeline Knight

Leadership and Service in Linguistics
• Elizabeth Purnell

Honors in Linguistics

• Shawna Dempsey - High Honors in Linguistics, 
  "Ain't Ain't a Word: Stigma against Southern Speech in the Classroom."
• Keara Harris - High Honors in Linguistics,
  "Visualizing Merge as a Three-Dimensional Constructed Language."
• Rammi Quah - High Honors in Linguistics,
  "The Syntax of Palestinian Arabic Modal Verbs."
• Eva Rothenberg - Highest Honors in Linguistics,
  "In These Unprecedented Times: A Genre Analysis of American University Reopening Statements during the COVID-19 Pandemic."
• Haohan Shi - High Honors in Psychology and Linguistics,
  "What Transformers Might Know About the Physical World: T5 and the Origins of Knowledge."
• Qifan Wang - Highest Honors in Psychology and Linguistics,
  "The Hairscapes of Chinese International Students."
• Julie Wechsler - Highest Honors in Psychology and Linguistics,
  "Motivations of Student Medical Interpreters: Personal, Professional, or Altruistic."

Honors in Other Areas (Second Majors, Joint majors and Ling minors)

• Lydia Feng - Highest Honors in Mathematics and Computer Science (LING Major) "WISeN: Widely Interpretable Semantic Network for Richer Meaning Representation."
• Sarah Garner - High Honors in Film and Media (LING Minor) "Cinematic Possessions: Colonialism, Horror, and Documentary."
• Nathaniel Goldblum - Highest Honors in Religion and Anthropology (LING Minor) "Sacred Nature: Perceptions of Nature in the Writings and Works of the Hudson River School and the Northern Song Dynasty Landscape Painters."
• Alisha Mody - Highest Honors in Italian Studies (LING Minor)
  
• Elizabeth Purnell - Highest Honors in English (LING Major) "Juxtaposition, Perception, and Virginity: How Othello, The White Devil, and The Wonder of Women Construct Fairness Through Womanhood."
• Daphne Weiss - Highest Honors Nueroscience and Behavioral Biology (LING Minor) "Speaking Big and Small: Integrating Prosodic Size and Meaning in Spoken Language."

Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

• Kalyani Allums
• Madeline Knight
• Emily Silber
  
• Yuxin (Jessica) Ji
  
• Rachel (Nikki) Horton

Inducted into Psi Chi

• Jessica Kwong
• Julie Wechsler

100 Senior Honorary

• Daniel Ramirez
• Marvin Richards III

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Sophia Minnillo

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Daisy Mohiuddin

Award for Excellence in the Study of Spanish and Linguistics
• Seaira Lett

Leadership and Service in Linguistics
• LaTonya Turner

Students Completing Honors

• Seaira Lett, "Syntax and morphology of San Sebastián Coatán Chuj, a Mayan language of Guatemala."
• Sophia Minnillo, "Digital Shifts in Language Learning: Analysis of CALL in Beginner, College-Level French SLA."
• Riley Swab, "How Orthography Impacts Visuo-Spatial Working Memory: A Correlational Study of Chinese and English."

Inducted into Phi Sigma Iota 2020

• Jeniah Thomas
• Ericka Canon
• LaTonya Turner

National Awards

• Sara Cunningham, Fulbright ETA, Germany
• Sophia Minnillo, Shephard Scholarship
• LaTonya Turner, Fulbright ETA, South Korea

 

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Anna Bintinger

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Namrata Verghese

Award for Excellence in the Study of Spanish and Linguistics
• Mitzi Sandoval

Leadership and Service in Linguistics
• Doris Zhou

Students Completing Honors

• Anna Bintinger, "Children’s Acquisition of Negative Concord and Negative Polarity Items in English"  (Marjorie Pak, Director).

Inducted into Phi Sigma Iota 2019

Anna Bintinger	Cassie Newland
Michelle DeJarnett	Elinor Phipps
Beth Dempsey	Elizabeth Purnell
Michaela Digilio	Rammi Quah
Leigh Guthrie	Daniel Ramirez
Katherine Hunter	Melody Schimmel
Suji Kim	Nicole Steiner
Lauren Lastres	Michelle Tippens
Benjamin Meiner

Inducted into Psi Chi 2019

Benjamin Fertig	Tahmina Mohiuddin
So Ye Han	Nicole Steiner
Amy Hunter	Julie Wechsler
Jessica Kwong

 

Photos from the Poster Session / Awards Banquet

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Deandre Miles

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Marissa Russell

Award for Excellence in the Study of Spanish and Linguistics
• Zach Denton

Leadership and Service in Linguistics
• Connor O'Connell

Outstanding Promise for 2nd year student
• Jordan Anschutz

Outstanding Promise for 1st year student
• Shawna Dempsey

Students Completing Honors

• Hang Jiang, " Automatic Personality Prediction with Attention-based Neural Networks"  (Jinho Choi, Director).

Inducted into PSI 2018

Mercedes Anderson	Grace O'Duffy
Cecilia Carroll	Arbour Guthrie
Zach Denton	Shuting Huang
Rachel Greenberg	Wenhui Zhao

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Emma Reidy

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Taylor Block

Leadership and Service in Linguistics
• Michael Zhong

Outstanding Promise for 2nd year student
• Anna Bintinger

Outstanding Promise for 1st year student
• Cecillia Carrol

Students Completing Honors

• Migyeong Jang, "Exploring Near-Nativeness in Second-Language English Speakers"  (Marjorie Pak, Director).
• Mackenzie Levy, "The Past, Present and Potential of Hinglish in India" (Hossein Samei, Director).
• Margo Menkes, "Self-Generation of Novel Information through Integration of Cross-Language Episodes" - Joint Psychology & Linguistics Major, Psychology Honors.
• Emma Reidy, "An Investigation of the Linguistic Properties of Emoji" - High Honors (Marjorie Pak, Director).
• Michael Zhong, "A Study into Emoji Use in the Multi-Party Chat" (Yu Li & Hiram Maxim, Directors).

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Cody Stephens

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Cameron Coppala

Outstanding Promise for 2nd year student
• Andy Dong

Outstanding Promise for 1st year student
• Doris Zhou

Students Completing Honors

• Cameron Coppala, "Making heads or tails of idiom processing: Semantic transparency, syntactic flexibility, and the lexical representation of idioms." (Marjorie Pak, Director).

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Austin Blodgett

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Christopher Naber

Outstanding Promise for 2nd year student
• Belinda Chung

Outstanding Promise for 1st year student
• Nury Perez-Martinez

Students Completing Honors

• Danielle Berkowsky, "Compensating for the Lack of a Gender-Neutral Pronoun in English: What Makes a Method Successful (with Evidence from Chinese)
  and What Should We Do?"
• Kristina Juergensmeyer, "Equestions in Mediation: How Mediators Change their Language to Facilitate the Process of Mediation."
• Christoper Naber, "Account and acquisition of Hiatus Resolution: /r/-Linking and /r/-Intrusion."
• Aneyn O'Grady, "Embodied Fictions: Narratives of the Face."
• Shivani Patel, "Prosody and the Development of Conversational Interactions in Infants at Risk of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)."
• Sarahmarie Specht-Bird, "I Can't Even Because Language: Investigating Attitudes Towards Internet Phrases in Speech."
• Tiffany Vu, "The Syntactic Constraints of the Japanese Particle 'NE'."

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Kristin Denlinger
• Ian Kirby

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Arielle Friehling

Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Program in Linguistics
• Cass Lanford

Outstanding Promise for 2nd year student
• Peter Witzig

Outstanding Promise for 1st year student
• Marla Rojas

Students Completing Honors

• Kristin Denlinger, "The Role of syntax in Word Conversion: Users and Limits to a Corpus-Based Approach to Converted Denominal Verbs." (director: Dr. Phillip Wolff).
• Arielle Friehling. "Emergence and Development of Phonological awareness in 2.5-and 3.5-Year-Old Children."  (director: Dr. Laura Namy).
• Ian Kirby, "'Any' as a Negative Polarity Item: From Old English to Early Modern English." (director: Dr. Majorie Pak).
• Connor Leydecker, "The Language of Prayer: A Qualitative Linguistic Analysis of Prayer Form & Function." (director: Benjamin Hary).
• Alexandra Lopez, "Bitch, You're Such a Slut!: How College Women use Bitch and Slut for Relationship and Identity Work."  (director: Dr. Susan Tamasi).
• Laura Manor, "Dictionary Dissection: A Computational Approach to Recovering Primitive Concepts." (director: Dr. Phillip Wolff).

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Kimberly Edmunds
• Lauren Henrickson

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Valentin Lazar

Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Program in Linguistics
• Alexander Riddle

Outstanding Promise for 2nd year student
• Christopher Naber

Outstanding Promise for 1st year student
• Cameron Coppala

Students Completing Honors

• Kimberly Edmunds, "Chinese ESL Learners' Overuse of the Definite Article: A Corpus Study."  (director: Dr. Marjorie Pak)
• Sarah Leiter, "Christianese: A sociolinguistic analysis of the evangelical Christian dialect of American English."  (director: Dr. Benjamin Hary)
• Michelle Linch, "The Role of Sound Symbolism on Product•Label Pairings."  (director: Dr. Lynne Nygaard )

Awarded the Bobby Jones Scholarship for a year of study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland
• Lauren Henrickson

Awarded the 2013 Academy of American Poets Prize
• Alexander Riddle

Honorable Mention (Social Sciences), 2013 College Research Symposium
• Michelle Linch, "The Role of Sound Symbolism on Product - Label Pairings."
Director: Dr. Lynne Nygaard 

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Wes Smith

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Katherine Dzubinski

Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Program in Linguistics
• Margaret Swerlick

Students Completing Honors
• Kelsey Jamerson, "Revisiting Possession in English."  (director: Dr. Phil Wolff)
• Wes Smith, "Gestural Origins of Language as an Evolutionary Explanation for the Digital and Analogic Properties of Human Communication." (director: Dr. Bradd Shore)

College Symposium Best Presentation Award in Social Sciences
• Kelsey Jamerson, "Revisiting Possession in English."

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Joshua Keller

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Robert Smith

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Christianna Beachley
• Jennifer Clegg
• Samuel Ritter

Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Program in Linguistics
• Alec Fox

Students Completing Honors
• Marina Santiago, Linguistics,  (Director: Dr. Tamasi)
• Robert Smith, Linguistics, (Director: Dr. Pak)
• Jennifer Clegg, "Preschool in the South Pacific: Establishing a Quantitative Method for Corss-Cultural Comparison", Psychology and Linguistics, (Director: Dr. Rochat)
• Samuel Ritter, "Causation and the Somatosensory System", Psychology and Linguistics, (Director: Dr. Wolff)

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Nihar Mathur

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Kaitlyn Bankieris

Students Completing Honors
• Tonia Davis, Linguistics, With Highest Honors (Director: Dr. Phil Wolff)
• Nihar Mathur, Linguistics, With Highest Honors (Director: Dr. Lynne Nygaard)
• Meredith West, Psychology and Linguistics, With Highest Honors (Director: Dr. Phil Wolff)

SIRE Research Best Presentation Award (Humanities)
• John Culnan, "The REALM Test in Health Communication"
Mentor: Dr. Susan Tamasi, Linguistics

College Symposium Best Presentation Award (Social Sciences)
• Nihar Mathur, "Phonetic Correlates of Sound Symbolism"
Mentor: Dr. Lynne Nygaard, Psychology

Honorable Mention:
• Kaitlyn Bankieris, "Sound Symbolism and the Perception of Shape and Implied Motion"
Mentor: Dr. Lynne Nygaard, Psychology
• Tonia Davis, "Who really turned out the light? Defining metonymic licensing from an empirical standpoint"
Mentor: Dr. Phillip Wolff, Psychology

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Presley Pizzo
• Hilary Prichard
• Alessia Waller

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Rebecca Ojo

Fall 2007 / Spring 2008

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Julia Johnson

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Emily Malina

Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics
• Julia Johnson

Award for Excellence in the Study of Psychology and Linguistics
• Emily Malina