Christal Brewster, 2-time UNT alumna plus Learning Technologies Certificate holder, credits her MA English as a Second Language for her communication, writing, and teaching skills as well as knowledge of adult learning theory, and her Certificate in Learning Technologies for her technical and design skills.

UNT College of Music Ali Montazeri (Co-Arranger) and UNT Linguistics professor Sadaf Munshi (Linguistic and Academic Advisor) are recognized for their contribution on music album, "The Voices and Bridges", which is on the Recording Academy / GRAMMYs ballot in two categories:

1- Best Global Music Album, The Voices and Bridges

2- Best Global Music Performance, "Jete Nahi Dibo" (a trilingual composition in Kashmiri, Bengali and Farsi)

Learn more: https://thevoicesandbridges.com

Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean of Research and Development in the College of Information, Dr. Chelliah is the recipient of the highly competitive Fulbright-Nehru fellowship, which enables the most outstanding students, academics and professionals in India and the U.S. to study, research and teach in a host country. She will travel to India in the spring to follow up with her research groups and build on her remote work, while coordinating language archiving curriculum and lecturing around the country for four months.

The CoRSALV Symposium took place on October 1, 2021 with the theme of Developing Infrastructure for CoRSAL V: Increasing Engagement with CoRSAL through Social Media. A Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund (PI Chelliah) provided planning funds for the Computational Resource for South Asian languages (CoRSAL), a data resource with standard and portable data formats that could be used by many constituents.  Since the first meeting at UNT November 2017, CoRSAL has gained both community and institutional partners.

Taraka Rama featured in an international journal. 

Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor, Taraka Kasicheyanula’s publication on new methodologies on reconstructing the history of the World's languages was released in the journal PLOS ONE. The journal is an internationally known publication with no paywall. The articles accepted in the journal are frequently accessed and then cited by others, allowing for the information and influential analysis to reach a wide readership across the sciences. 

Information Science Ph.D. student, Sahar Behpour, has had her paper titled “Automatic trend detection: Time-biased document clustering” published in the Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, an international and interdisciplinary journal in the field of artificial intelligence. The paper is about a novel method for automatic trend detection. Sahar is also a recipient of the 2021 UNT Graduate Student Research Award. Currently, she is working as an intern for the QMSC company, as well as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Information Science.

Dr. Shobhana Chelliah to take fall sabbatical as she’s named a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow. The Fulbright-Nehru fellowship will require her full attention despite a brief delay in travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Chelliah currently serves at the Associate Dean of Research and Development, while being an active faculty member in the Linguistics department. This fellowship, considered highly competitive and only two are given each year.  

Linguists from across Zoom gathered to raise scholarship funds and answer the question, “What is a squib?” 

“What is a squib, what is a Squibber scholarship? Well squibs are mysteries. We linguists when we find something that we don’t understand we poke at it and it pokes at us and sometimes we work on it sometimes for a year, or ten years, sometimes we never get anywhere with it because it’s so hard,” says John ‘Haj’ Ross is a linguist poet, author, artist and Professor at the University of North Texas, Department of Linguistics.

The College of Information celebrates Dr. Alexis Palmer of the Linguistics department on her CAREER award. Palmer is one of three researchers from the University of North Texas, who were awarded more than $1.5 million total in grant money through the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).

This January, Associate Dean of Research and Advancement and Linguistics Professor, Shobhana Chelliah received notice of her award for the University Distinguished Research Professor award. Chelliah’s research on language documentation and endangered South Asian Languages began years ago. It became her mission to support the international education of UNT students through interacting with  speaker communities and institutions back in India and supporting language documentation there.