My mother is worried that he is going to get me killed,” an MIT PhD student wrote in an email to police about a professor who ...

We cannot force students to write "original" prose without any external help. But we can teach them to be responsible authors ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) allegedly failed repeatedly to discipline a professor who harassed Jewish and ...

Linguistics allows a language—with all of its richness and complexity—to be studied as a psychological, cultural and historical object, enabling pupils to probe how it is shaped by (and shapes ...

When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. "Nobody cared ...

Emails that stir emotions tend to get more replies than those that focus only on the facts. Even when writing about technical ...

Noam Chomsky is a public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism and social criticism. I stumbled ...

Meghan Marie Agnew has been named to the President’s List at Iowa State University. Agnew, from Tonganoxie, is majoring in linguistics. Students achieving the designation maintained a 4.0 grade-point ...

The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science offers a small number of teaching assistantships, graduate assistantships, and/or research assistantships to Ph.D. students. The awards are granted ...