Terps in DC for Language Advocacy Day
February 15, 2017
Linguistics
February 16-17, many students and faculty are in D.C. for
Language Advocacy Day, an annual event organized by the
Joint National Committee on Language. Among them are linguistics students
Jeffrey Green and
Anton Malko, linguistics faculty
Ellen Lau and
Bill Idsardi, as well as
Shevaun Lewis,
Yi Ting Huang,
Eric Pelzl,
Sudha Rao, Lucy Claire Erickson,
Lijuan Shi,
Yoonjee Hong,
Catherine MarĂa Pulupa, and
Angela Harmon. They will be meeting with representatives from congress and various Executive Branch agencies to discuss how language science relates to the national interest.