11 February 2011

USC linguists hiking Mt. Baldy

Some pictures from gorgeous Mt. Baldy, where a group of brave USC linguists went last weekend!




Climbing...


Posing...


Hiking...

10 February 2011

When a linguist visited from SUNY

Pictures from the party at Barbara and Mythili's place, when John Bailyn visited us from SUNY!




Barbara Tomaszewicz, Barry Schein, Agnieszka Lazorczyk, John Bailyn, and Roumyana Pancheva




Arunima Choudhury, Mary Byram-Washburn, Saurov Syed, and Priyanka Biswas

Hajime Hoji, Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson



Christina Hagedorn, Mythili Menon, Emily Fedele, and Brian Hsu

Katy McKinney-Bock and John Bailyn


Dan Bock, Christina Hagedorn, Emily Fedele, Brian Hsu, Sarah Ouwayda, Roumyana Pancheva, Saurov Syed (and with her back to the camera: Mary Byram)

06 February 2011

New baby!

Congratulations to Roger and Iris on the birth of their son Archard Liao born on January 24, 2011!
That is one smart looking baby!






29 January 2011

Department hike!

Some highlights from the San Gabriel hiking trip organized by Andrew:

Christina, Mary, Sofiana, Mythili, Emili, Brian, Syed, Priyanka, Janet, Suman, and Andrew


Climbing


04 November 2010

October/November News!

Travel News:

~ Sarah Ouwayda, Mary Byram, Barbara Tomaszewicz, and Mythili Menon drove up to Stanford for the California University Semantics and Pragmatics meeting. They took the scenic route back. Here are some pictures (more to come):



~ Rachel Walker went to Cambridge to give an invited talk at the colloquium series at MIT and Harvard - here are some pictures she took while there:



Roumi went to Arizona to give an invited talk at the departmental colloquium, the cacti speak for themselves!





Elsi gave a colloquium talk at UCLA, but she has no pictures to prove that she has been to Los Angeles!

John Bailyn of Stony Brook University visited the department during the week of November 15th-19th! Here's him at USC! He gave a talk in Syntax+ about Ellipsis in Russian, and a party was thrown in his honor in South Pass!


Conference News:

Twelve USC Linguists are presenting at the LSA! Xiao He, Ed Holsinger, Melissa Frazier, Elsi Kaiser, Audrey Li, Katy McKinney-Bock, Ellen O’Connor Mohun, Daylen Riggs, Michael Shepherd, Sam Tilsen, Erika Varis Doggett, and Hector Velasquez