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We wrote to our soon-to-be and very recent undergraduate alumni (fall 2024, spring and summer 2025) for updates on their plans after graduation. Here are the stories they shared with us:

• Luis Bejarano-Beltran (BA 2025) will be converting to a full-time Brand Marketing Coordinator for Chase Center Concerts and Events, under the Golden State Warriors.
• Ajay Bhargava (BA 2025) will be starting a job as an engineer at Applied Intuition, working on software for autonomous vehicles.
• Habiba Geweifal (BA 2025) will be starting her MS in Speech-Language Pathology at San Jose State University in Fall 2025.
• Lindsay Hatch (BA 2025) will be taking a year off and then applying to graduate school to continue research.
• Madison Fanucchi (BA 2025) will be attending San Jose State University to earn her Master's of Library and Information Science with a concentration on Archival Studies.

Congratulations, everybody!

Former Berkeley linguistics graduate student Amy Tan, also the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and many other books, has donated her papers to UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library. News articles about this gift are in Berkeleyside and the New York Times. (Photo below from the Bancroft Library: Amy Tan in the Rock Bottom Remainders.)

Erik Hans Maier (Linguistics PhD '22) has started a new staff position here at Berkeley as the Undergraduate Research and Curricular Program Analyst for the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships in the College of Letters & Science Undergraduate Division.

UC Berkeley alumnus Charles Chang (PhD 2010) will be joining the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) as Professor of Linguistics, starting September 202

Becky Jarvis, Tzintia Montaño Ramírez, and Zachary O'Hagan are in Berlin this week giving presentations and posters at Language Documentation and Archiving at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (pictured here with organizing committee member Kelsey Neely, PhD 2019; Amalia Skilton, PhD 2019; and Bernat Bardagil, postdoc 2018-2020).

A new volume of papers on language documention edited by Berkeley linguistics faculty members Peter Jenks and Lev Michael includes a paper by

Two (former) Berkeley affiliates presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics at Heidelberg University. Johanna Nichols presented on "Reconstructing prehistoric sociolinguistics from modern grammatical evidence" and Anna Berge (PhD 1997, now a professor at the University of

We wrote to our soon-to-be and very recent undergraduate alumni (fall 2022, spring and summer 2023) for updates on their plans after graduation. Here are the stories they shared with us:

• Aishwarya Jayadeep (BA 2023) will be starting an MS in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley this fall.
• Chelsea Tang (BA 2022) will be starting her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT this fall.
• Calvin Quick (BA 2023) will be starting the Linguistics PhD program at the University of Toronto in September 2023.
• Cid Bryan (BA 2022) is currently working as a substitute teacher and is getting ready to apply to graduate programs in the near future.
• Dara Gaeuman (BA 2022) will be starting the master's program for clinical Speech-Language Pathology at Northwestern University in September 2023.
• Cecilia Elena Bachmann (BA 2023) will begin working as the Emerging Adult Workforce and Education Coordinator for the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles. She also has plans to apply to graduate school for the fall of 2024.
• Noah Boihem (Linguistics BA, Computer Science BA 2023) will be attending Nuclear Power School to become a Submarine Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy starting in October 2023. He will be assisting in research at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab until then.
• Corina Chen (BA 2022) will be starting her M.Ed. at Stanford in June 2023 and is looking forward to becoming an English secondary school teacher in the SF Bay Area.
• Gunjan Anand (BA 2023) will be starting her PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in the fall.

Congratulations, everybody!

Congratulations to Andrew Cheng (PhD 2020) who has accepted a tenure track offer from the University of Hawai'i to start in August 2023! Andrew also has a new paper out in the Journal of Linguistic Geography titled "A comparative study of English vowel shift and vowel space area among Korean Americans in three dialect regions."

Congratulations to Nik Rolle (PhD 2018), mom Amy, and big brother Jude on the birth of Grace Elisabeth Deverell on October 7.

We wrote to our soon-to-be and recent undergraduate alumni (from 2022 and 2021) for updates on their plans after graduation. Here are the stories they shared with us:

• Nicholas Ngai (BA 2022) will be starting his master's degree in computer science at UC Berkeley.
• Dara Gaeuman (BA, fall 2022) will be applying to grad school for Speech Language Pathology programs.
• Cynthia Zhong (BA 2022) will be starting her Ph.D. in linguistics at MIT this fall.
• Anjali Kantharuban (BA 2022) will be beginning an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge in October 2022. Afterwards, she will do her PhD in Language and Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, studying ways to make natural language computer systems functional on a wider variety of languages and dialects.
• Irene Yi (BA 2021) will be starting in the Linguistics PhD program at Stanford in the fall.
• Ivori White (BA 2022) will be moving to Japan in August to teach English. Before she moves she will be practicing her Japanese and napping her days away.
• Charles Zhang (BA 2021) started a job working on quantum computers in September 2021 and will pursue a further degree in comparative linguistics.
• Margaret Asperheim (BA 2022) will be starting an MA at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in August.
• Noah Usman (BA, fall 2021) has started a job as an Insights Associate at Pakistani-American investment firm i2i Ventures, the sister company of startup accelerator Invest2Innovate.
• Jesus Duarte (BA 2022) will be starting his PhD in Hispanic Linguistics at UCLA in the fall.
• Carmela Blazado (BA 2021) will begin the Master’s Program for Speech-Language Pathology at University of the Pacific in August 2022.
• Anna Shim (BA 2022) will be starting at UC Berkeley's BE3 graduate program in education starting June 2022.
• Tegan Lakshmanan (BA 2022) will be starting her PhD in Math at UC Berkeley in the fall.
• Grant Brooks Goodman (BA 2022) will be working at SiriusXM/Pandora as a software engineer in August 2022.
• Cooper Bedin (BA 2022) will be beginning a PhD program in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in September.
• Kevin Yu (BA 2021) will be starting his PhD in linguistics at the University of Florida in fall 2022.

Congratulations, everybody!

Congrats to Julia Nee (PhD 2021), along with coauthors Genevieve Smith, Alicia Sheares, and Ishita Rustagi, on the publication of a new article titled "Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools" in Big Data and Society! There's a blog post summary of the article here.

Calques is happy to pass along the following update from Keith Johnson and Sharon Inkelas:

Congratulations to Meg Cychosz (PhD 2020) who has just accepted a tenure-track appointment in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA!

Congratulations to Fey Parrill (BA 2000 with linguistics dept. honors; co-founder of the Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group), who has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University!

Congratulations to Alice Shen (PhD 2020), who has accepted a position as a computational linguist at Grammarly!

Congrats to Zachary O'Hagan, who became an associated member of the Instituto Riva-Agüero in Lima, part of the research group Amazonía indígena contemporánea: Relaciones interétnicas, lenguas e historia with anthropologists Emanuele Fabiano and Joshua Homan.

Alejandro Granados Vargas (BA 2013) was admitted into the PhD program in Education, with an emphasis on Human Development in Context, at UC Irvine. His research area will be in bilingual language development in language impaired children. Congratulations, Alejandro!