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Faculty members at the School of Modern Languages recently hosted the 17th North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition. It is the second time Georgia Tech has served as a university site for the competition. Hongchen Wu and Kyoko Masuda led the School's efforts under a grant from the Atlanta Global Studies Center for their project, "Introducing Linguistics to Atlanta High School Students."

Paige Miller, Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, discussed the "dark academia" aesthetic on the  Lost in the Stacks show on Georgia Tech student radio station WREK.

Hongchen Wu, assistant professor of Chinese, gave a virtual poster presentation on Jan. 8 to the Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting on her first-authored research, "Prosodic Disambiguation of Wh-Indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese."

"Sustainable Collaboration: A Co-taught, Client-based Course Sequence Integrating Computer Science and Technical Communication." was the lead article in the December issue of Programmatic Perspectives, the journal of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Co-written by former Writing and Communication Program (WCP) Director Rebecca E. Burnett, current Director Andy Frazee, and former Brittain Fellows Amanda K. Girard, Liz Hutter, Halcyon M. Lawrence, and Olga Menagarishivili, the article discusses the course sequence in depth and serves as a history of the now 10-year-old collaboration with the College of Computing.