Welcome! GLAM is open to all MA and PhD students in Linguistics at the University of Minnesota. GLAM works to increase communication between the faculty/administration and graduate students. We organize professional development workshops, host an annual graduate student conference (MNSWOL) and provide outreach opportunities. Links for U of M linguistics students GLAM Discussion Board U of M Linguistics Program Student Survival Guide: Helpful info for new graduate students "Staying on Course" Guide: Useful for navigating all aspects of grad school Council of Graduate Students Graduate and Professional Student Association Graduate School workshops Office for Conflict Resolution Linguistic Society of America LinguistList Meet some GLAM students  Eden is in her fifth year in the linguistics program. She is interested in acoustic phonetics (especially nasalization), phonological acquisition, and sociolinguistics. Contact her at: <kaise113 at umn.edu>. And, in case you were wondering, there are no palm trees in Minnesota (at least not normally).  Paula is in her third year in the linguistics program. Her interests are morphology, with a focus on lexical productivity, statistical modeling of natural language, computational linguistics, and Romance linguistics (especially French). For 2008-2009, she is the Social Committee Chair (and yes, there are actual responsibilities associated with this position :) ). Her website is: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ches0045/  Kaitlin is a sixth year linguistics graduate student. Her interests include pragmatics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. You can reach her at <john2921 at umn dot edu>  Ellen is GLAM's secretary for the 2008-2009 academic year. Ellen is a PhD student interested in phonology and pragmatics, especially theory of mind issues, and is currently teaching Ling 3001. |