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The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

May 08, 2025 Linguistics

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

July 01, 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

June 30, 2024 Linguistics

New Chair

Jeff Lidz takes the helm.

May 21, 2023 Linguistics

Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post

Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.

February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.

February 16, 2022 Linguistics

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

Dissertation improvement grants on comprehension illusions and the acquisition of question marking.

November 15, 2021 Linguistics

Researcher Studies What’s Behind Baby Talk

A new study by linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz shows children grasp syntax earlier than you might think.

October 08, 2021 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

NSF Grant Funds Research at Planet Word Museum

$440K award will put scholars on D.C. site, support new course for students to learn to conduct studies in real-world settings.

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Linguists at Planet Word Summer School

August 01, 2022 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

Grads and faculty help undergrads adapt a Cloze study to the museum context.

Dissertation of former visitor Iria de Dios Flores awarded by Spanish Linguistic Society

July 29, 2022 Linguistics

Iria's work on grammatical illusions distinguished as the best in Spain for 2021.

Masha and Maša teaching at CreteLing

July 09, 2022 Linguistics

A summer course on verb initial languages.

Marylanders teaching at 5th virtual New York - Petersburg Institute

June 22, 2022 Linguistics

Summer school happening online with seven Terrapin faculty.

Craig wins Lasnik Award

June 16, 2022 Linguistics

In recognition of his excellent teaching.

Polina at the 4th Syntax of Uralic Languages

June 13, 2022 Linguistics

On quantificational interpretations of -n forms in Hill Mari.

Interactive Museum Strives to Boost the Love of Words

June 10, 2022 Linguistics, English

The Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to bring language to life, recently opened a new exhibit focused on wordplay.

Adam Liter working at Glassdoor

June 04, 2022 Linguistics

Working as a Machine Learning Scientist for employee review website.

Alex Chabot talking in Portugal

June 02, 2022 Linguistics

On allophony and epenthesis in Brazilian Portuguese.

Hanna to Illinois

June 01, 2022 Linguistics

Visiting Assistant Professor position in psycholinguistics at Urbana-Champaign.