Keren Rice's Final Day of Teaching!

The Fall semester has officially come to an end, leaving us all excited for the Winter Break! This year is especially bittersweet as it marks the final semester with Faculty member Keren Rice before she settles into retirement! 

Following her final lecture (unsurprisingly, an upper-year phonology course) she was surprised by students and faculty members with a mini-celebration to commemorate all her hard work throughout her career! 

Rice made major contributions to the fields of Indigenous language studies, phonology and morphology, as well as having left long-lasting marks on many of her students! As excited as we are for her to begin her next chapter, she will be greatly missed in the classroom! 

Rice with her students!

Faculty members who joined the party! 

 

First-ever winners of the Dean's Research Excellence Awards!

This year, the Faculty of Arts and Science established the Dean's Research Excellence Awards to recognize faculty members whose research achievements have been cited as especially noteworthy!

Given that brief description, it is no surprise to see that Naomi Nagy (Faculty) is one of the five recipients! As this award is aimed to help researches compete successfully in national award competitions, winners will receive $10, 000 to further their professional development. 

The five recipients of this year's Dean's Research Excellence Award: (clockwise from top left) Wil Cunningham (Psychology), Megan Frederickson (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Randall Hansen (Political Science, Munk School) Naomi Nagy (Linguistics) and Kaley Walker (Physics) 

Nagy’s Heritage Language Variation and Change Project positions her at the front and centre of her generation of scholars. With students and colleagues in several countries, she has been documenting studies of variation in 10 heritage languages spoken in Toronto. Nagy has also been engaged in a longitudinal study of an endangered, unwritten, Franco-Provençal language called Faetar.

Huge congratulations goes out to Naomi Nagy! We are excited to see more of her amazing work!