Student Academic Achievements in the JPN Program

1. Jennifer Shen (Class of 2022), double majors: Chemistry and Japanese; now Pharmacy school student at UNC Chapel Hill

Publication:https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5228

2. Soren Christensen (Class of 2022), double majors: Neuroscience and Japanese; now Duke Medical School student

Publication:https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5227

3. Abby List (Class of 2022), double majors: Computer Science and Statistics, minor: Japanese; now a software engineer at Microsoft

Publication: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jjl-2024-2005/html

4. Leah Okamura (Class of 2023), double majors: Computer Science and Japanese; now a software engineer at CrowdStrike

Conference presentation: Scope of negation and conjunction in heritage Japanese. Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Denver, Colorado. (1/8/2023)

5. Layla Arty (Class of 2024), double majors: Biology and Japanese

Conference presentation: Acquisition of the English Plural Form by Native Japanese Speakers. Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2023), Gakushuin University. (10/14/2023)

News on AMES: https://asianmideast.duke.edu/news/japanese-major-presents-research-project-international-conference-japan

6. Jose Chavez (Class of 2025), double majors: Chemistry and Japanese

Conference presentation: Reexamining the interpretation of English definite plurals by L1 Spanish speakers: persistent transfer effects from Spanish. Paper presented at the 2025 Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Boca Raton, Florida. (4/12/2025)

News on AMES: https://asianmideast.duke.edu/news/japanese-major-student-presented-research-project-2025-southeastern-conference-linguistics