The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington would like to announce the availability of five assistantships for new students admitted for study in our PhD program starting in Fall 2010. These graduate teaching assistantships will have a 9 month stipend of $15,300 and cover tuition for 9 hours of coursework a semester (9 hours is a full-time load).

Our Department has an established doctoral program, with strengths in language documentation, formal linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics), corpus linguistics, and second language acquisition (especially experimental approaches to SLA). Faculty strengths also include Asian, Austronesian, and Native American languages. We are hiring two new faculty this year, one in language documentation and syntax and another in second language acquisition. Facilities include a new Speech Sounds Lab with a soundproof booth and a portable ultrasound. The graduate students in our Department also organize an annual student conference that includes the Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics, which awards a cash prize to the top presentations at the conference. (more…)

Two Marie Curie PhD Scholarships in Semantic Annotation of Corpora and Multimodal Communication at the University of Copenhagen Application deadline March 15, 2010

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Language Technology, under the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications for two PhD scholarships in semantic annotation of corpora and multimodal communication starting September 1, 2010 for a period of up to three years. The positions involve participation in the EU project CLARA – Common Language Resources and their Applications, which is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving funding from European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (more…)

The Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Denmark, is offering a PhD scholarship granted under the auspices of the Centre for Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University (CALPIU) by the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication.

The centre invites applicants to propose projects dealing with student-student or student-administration (e.g. supervision) communicative interaction within international study programmes.

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A 2-year postdoctoral position in experimental biophysics will be available from May 1 2009 in connection with the project Aquaporin membranes for water filtration.

The project is supported by a grant from the Danish National High-technology Foundation. The project involves collaboration with other academic groups and two companies.

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