Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate Receives Graduate Research Award

This past week, Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant Jean Costa-Silva received a Graduate Research Award from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board. The $900 award will go towards costs associated with his research project, “Acquisition of Motion Descriptions by Portuguese and English Foreign Language Learners.”

As a Graduate Research Award recipient, Jean will participate in the UGA Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition in the spring. 3MT is sponsored by the UGA Graduate School:

3MT^® is a professional and highly engaging international research communication competition. Better known by the acronym 3MT^®, the competition requires contestants to explain their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance in three minutes or less using only a single static presentation slide.

The competition supports students' capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.   

The winner of the competition will receive $1,000 and represent UGA at the regional 3MT^® competition. 

Congratulations to Jean for the well-deserved recognition!