Congratulations to three of our linguistics majors, who received Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grants for 2009-10: Alexandra Furukawa, Anna Greenwood, and Shannon Mooney. Anna Greenwood got a grant for her project on the structure of Italian syllables. She will be going to Italy to collect data for her honors thesis in phonology, directed by Maria Gouskova. Alexandra Furukawa will be working on an honors thesis on (in)formality in the speech of teachers at New York City schools. Her thesis is directed by Greg Guy. Dr. Guy is also directing Shannon Mooney's research on the sociophonetics of /r/ in Glasgow English.