Student Achievements

UT Arlington Department of Linguistics & TESOL students are regularly honored for their achievements. We'll tell you here about the honors we know of. (This page is organized by academic year.)

2011-2012

Honor Society Inductees

Yujeong Choi and Forest Ivey were inducted into UT Arlington's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in fall 2011.

2010-2011

Department and College Awards

The following awards were presented at the spring 2011 annual awards ceremony of the Department of Linguistics & TESOL:

• Sean Cooper: Irwin Feigenbaum Award (presented to an outstanding TESOL student)
• Sean Cooper, Felicia Wallace, Lori McLain Pierce, and Sharon Peters: Service Learning (presented to students who have distinguished themselves by combining their linguistics education with service to the community)
• Vitaly Voinov and Joshua Jensen: 10-11 Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics (UTASCILT 18)

University Scholars

Heather Beal (PhD Ling), Sean Cooper (MA TESOL), Nathan Eversole (MA Ling), Michelle Maupin (MA Ling), Sharon Peters (MA TESOL), Kristopher Wright (MA TESOL), and Roberta 'Bobbi' Ansiaux (MA TESOL) were named UT Arlington University Scholars (nominated by our department) on the basis of academic excellence.

Grants, Funding, and other Awards

Joshua Jensen was awarded a two-year NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to support his research of serial verb constructions and clause structure in the Jarai language.

Three of our graduate students received funding for travel or research from the College of Liberal Arts: Vitaly Voinov, Dean’s Excellence Research Travel Award; Matt Benton, Dean’s Excellence Award for Graduate Research/Creative Activity; Sok-hun Kim, Dean’s Excellence Award for Graduate Research/Creative Activity.

Joshua Jensen was awarded the Linguistic Society of America's new Student Abstract Award, which goes to the student who submitted the best abstract for a paper or poster presentation at the 2011 LSA Annual Meeting in January.

Honor Society Inductees

Roberta L. Ansiaux, Sean G. Cooper and Nathaniel James Eversole were inducted into UT Arlington's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in fall 2010.

2009-2010

Department and College Awards

The following awards were presented at the spring 2010 annual awards ceremony of the Department of Linguistics & TESOL:

• Heejung Pyo: Irwin Feigenbaum Award (presented to an outstanding TESOL student)
• Stacie Ross-Mirahmatov, Norah Kim, Sharon Peters, and Lori McLain Pierce: Service Learning (presented to students who have distinguished themselves by combining their linguistics education with service to the community)
• Yujeong Choi: 2nd Place, 09-10 Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics (UTASCILT 17)
• Joshua Jensen and Ashley Lober McKeever: Donald A. Burquest Award for Excellence in Teaching Linguistics (presented to outstanding graduate teaching assistant in department)

Additionally, Michelle Sylor received an award of excellence for best beginning Arabic student from the Department of Modern Languages.

University Scholars

Stephen George, Sok-hun Kim, Ashley Lober McKeever, Lynnelle Rhinier, and Kenneth Zuercher were named UT Arlington University Scholars (nominated by our department) on the basis of academic excellence.

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Ashley Lober McKeever (Linguistics Ph.D. program) was named to Who's Who for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Honor Society Inductees

Heather Beal and Ken Zuercher (Ph.D. Linguistics) were inducted into UT Arlington's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in fall 2009.

Heather Beal was also inducted into the UT Arlington chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society.

Travel and Research Awards

Yujeong Choi, Joshua Jensen, and Ashley Lober McKeever were all awarded funds for research or research travel for this year.

2008-2009

Department and College Awards

The following awards were presented at the spring 2009 annual awards ceremony of the Department of Linguistics & TESOL:

• Presley McFadden: Feigenbaum Award (presented to an outstanding TESOL student)
• Brittain Hard and Stacie Ross-Mirahmatov: Service Learning (presented to undergraduate linguistics minors who have distinguished themselves by combining their linguistics education with service to the community)
• Matt Benton and Lynnelle Rhinier: Honorable Mention, 08-09 Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics (UTASCILT 16)

University Scholars

Dalal Almubayei, Yujeong Choi, Joshua Jensen, and Neal Liang were named UT Arlington University Scholars (nominated by our department) on the basis of academic excellence.

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Joshua Jensen and Deborah King (Linguistics Ph.D. program) and Keith Huddleston (undergraduate linguistics minor) were named to Who's Who for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inductees

Chris Aufdembrink and Reem Soliman (M.A. TESOL) were inducted into UT Arlington's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in fall 2008.

Travel and Research Awards

Joshua Jensen, Deborah King, Ashley Lober, and Catharine Welch were all awarded funds for research or research travel for this year.

2007-2008

University Scholars

Matthew Benton, Elizabeth Dockendorf, Robert Eaton, Deborah King, and Catharine Welch were honored as "University Scholars" at the President's Convocation for Academic Excellence (The University of Texas at Arlington) in the 2008 spring semester.

Department and College Awards

The following awards were presented at the spring 2008 annual awards ceremony of the Department of Linguistics & TESOL:

• Reem Soliman: Feigenbaum Award (presented to an outstanding TESOL student)
• Neal Liang: GTA/Lecturer of the Year (awarded by the Modern Languages Department)
• Brett Benham: Third Place Winner, 07-08 Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics (won for poster presentation at UTASCILT 15)

2006-2007

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inductees

Courtney Gillett and Jane Pappenhagen were inducted into UT Arlington's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in 2007.

University Scholars

The following Linguistics students were honored as "University Scholars" at the President's Convocation for Academic Excellence (The University of Texas at Arlington) in the 2007 spring semester:

• Pamela S. Arlund
• Traci Patricia Weast

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Cecile Padayodi from the Linguistics Ph.D. program was awarded a place among the 2006-2007 Who's Who recipients.