Dr. Jared Klein interviewed for anniversary of Georgia Guidestone destruction

Dr. Jared Klein Spotlight Cover - Who Blew Up The Guidestones?
July 6th marked four years since the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones, one of Georgia's most mysterious landmarks. Often called the "American Stonehenge," the Guidestones featured inscriptions in multiple languages including Classical Greek and Sanskrit. What many people don't know is that the translations for those two languages were provided by one of our own faculty members, Dr. Jared Klein!
 

UGA LING goes to ASA 190

Austin Jones ASA Photos
Our department was proud to be represented at the Acoustical Society of America's 190th Meeting (ASA 190) in Philadelphia by Austin Jones, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant.
 
Austin presented two collaborative research posters, co-authored with fellow researchers, examining speech technology and linguistic variation in Istro-Venetian, an endangered descendant of Venetian Italian spoken in Croatia.
 

New LING course focused on conversational AI being offered this fall

LING 2150 Flyer
Curious about how AI chatbots actually work and how they shape human communication? Consider taking LING 2150 - Demystifying Conversational AI: Language, Mind and Society, a new course this fall exploring the technologies behind conversational AI and their broader social, linguistic, and cultural impact! The course encourages students to think critically about how AI systems interact with people and how these technologies are becoming increasingly integrated into everyday life.
 

Several Linguistics students present research at 2026 UGA CURO Symposium

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Several students from the Department of Linguistics presented their research at the 2026 Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Symposium held on April 20 and 21. Their projects reflected the wide range of undergraduate research taking place within the department, from language documentation and semantics to sociolinguistics and language identity.

Casen Stiber presented “Plurality in Salvadoran Nawat,” a project examining plural marking in Salvadoran Nawat, an Indigenous language of El Salvador.

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