Congratulations to Mingzhe Zheng, who on November 21, 2017 successfully defended his doctoral dissertation You have to learn to adapt: A sociolinguistic study of the "Asian City" of southeast Michigan. Dr Zheng is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese at Earlham College, Indiana.
Monica Nesbitt, PhD candidate in Linguistics, was shortlisted for a travel award to the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting in Salt Lake City, January 2018. Awards are granted by the LSA's Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL). In a recent news announcement, the committee named five student recipients of the awards. Monica received an "honorable mention" for what the committee called her "high caliber application". Congratulations, Monica, and good luck with your application next year!