Two of our linguistics majors, Amanda Rysling and Ethan Mandel, just received awards from the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund. Amanda got funding for her project "Computational Principles Underlying Poetic Structures," supervised by Ray Dougherty, and Ethan will be collecting data in Okinawa for his work on phonological reconstruction of Proto-Japanese, "The Search for Japanese Roots: A reconstruction of the Amami Ryukyuan Dialect," under the supervision of John Costello. Congratulations!