Mid-semester brings good news as a number of students and faculty have new publications and grants to celebrate:

• Cheng Xiao and Jiang Liu have a newly published paper in Second Language Research: 

              Xiao, C., & Liu, J. (2024). The perception of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese words and sentences. Second Language Research. 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241286748

• Stan Dubinsky and Shana Scucchi are both authors on a paper (along with several colleagues in English) to appear in Language and Public Policy:

             2025 (to appear) Stanley Dubinsky, Michael Gavin, Gareth Rees-White, Shana Scucchi, Harvey Starr. The Language Freedom         Index: A metric for policy evaluation. Language and Public Policy

• Amit Almor is part of a research team awarded a new two-year grant: KREDIT: Knowledge infoRmEd NLU for Deception IdenTification,PI: Amit Sheth, coPI: Amit Almor, Sponsor: DISA, $669,837.00, October 2024 - Sept 2026.
• Jiang Liu was also recognized for his service on the NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant review panel.

Congrats to all!