• Oxford English Dictionary print edition is not dead — yet
  USA Today, 30 August 2010
• Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
  The New York Times, 26 August 2010
• Wanted: Ebonics Translator for Federal DEA Job, featuring linguist John Baugh, the chair of the LSA's Public Relations committee
  ABC, 23 August 2010
• LSA members have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution discrediting the Teachers' English Fluency Initiative recently implemented by the Arizona Department of Education. Read the press release. (PDF)
  18 August 2010
• LSA endorses federal legislation on language learning. (PDF)
  18 August 2010
• Silent communication: Sign-talkers share vanishing language
  The Billings Gazette, 10 August 2010
• In Alaska, a Frenchman Fights to Revive the Eyak's Dead Tongue
  The Wall Street Journal, 10 August 2010

Katy Carlson (Morehead State University) received a Distinguished Faculty Award at the University’s Fall Convocation on August 18, 2010. Read more...

Steven Abney and Terry Szymanski (University of Michigan) have been awarded a Google Digital Humanities Research Award for their project Automatic Identification and Extraction of Structured Linguistic Passages in Texts. Read more...

Dr. David J. Silva, (University of Texas at Arlington) has been selected as one of the inaugural recipients of the UT System Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. Read more...

Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Quebec at Montreal. Read more...

Philip Baldi, Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Penn State University, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden. Read more...

Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) has been elected the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for 2010. Read more...

Line Mikkelsen (University of California, Berkley) has been awarded Berkley's 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award. Read more...

Joshua Katz (Princeton University) has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2010. Read more...