New Breadth Project in the BiLD Lab

Emily is a second-year graduate student in the Hispanic Linguistics program in the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Department.
She earned her bachelor’s degrees in Spanish (BA) and French and Francophone Studies with a Concentration in Linguistics (BA).
For her Breadth Project in the BiLD Lab, she is interested in studying how ERP methods can be used to study accent perception and whether accent perception is correlated with their social attitudes.

Welcome Ingrid Chuang to the BiLD Lab!

Welcome our newest graduate student, Ingrid Chuang!

Ingrid is a first year graduate student in the BiLD Lab.

She is from Taiwan and is studying Cognitive Psychology. She received her BA and MA from National Taiwan University. Her research interests include bilingualism, language processing, and ERP methodologies. 

Dr. Van Hell – Distinguished Professor Recognition

Congratulations to Dr. Janet van Hell for being named Distinguished Professor by Penn State!

Penn State’s announcement:

“The distinguished professor title recognizes outstanding academic contribution to the University. This special academic title is bestowed upon a limited number of professors who are leaders in their fields of research or creative activity and who have demonstrated significant leadership with respect to teaching, research or creative activity, and service.

Van Hell studies the neural and cognitive processes underlying language learning, in particular second language learning and bi/multilingualism. She is a prominent scholar in the field — van Hell has received more than 30 grants during her time at Penn State and most of her work is collaborative and multidisciplinary. She also is known as a dedicated mentor and teacher”.

NSF Research Traineeship – LinDiv

Fall 2022

Congrats to Cristal Giorio for being accepted to the NSF Research Traineeship program “Linguistic diversity across the lifespan: Transforming training to advance human-technology interaction” (LinDiv). This two-year certificate program comes with one year of funding.

For more about the NRT LinDiv program check out this website.