The Department of Linguistics will be hosting two virtual workshops to introduce participants to the basics of how to access and work with text corpora available on the UGA Corpus Server. Contact Dr. Chad Howe (chowe@uga.edu) to set up an account prior to the workshop and to get the link for the Zoom meeting.

Want to learn more about corpus linguistics? The Linguistics Department will be holding a pair of virtual workshops to introduce participants to basic corpus tools available to everyone at UGA.

Friday, September 17th, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Introduction to the UGA Corpus Server and the Open Corpus Workbench

(note time change!) Thursday, September 30th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Using R to work with the UGA Corpus Server (with the package PolmineR)

The University of Georgia Graduate School hosted the 10th annual Three Minute Thesis competition in a virtual ceremony on April 8. 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.

This year’s grand prize winner was Judith M. Reyes Ballista, a doctoral student in the Department of Infectious Diseases, for her presentation titled “The Grinch of the Cells.”