Presidential Scholarship

The Presidential Scholar Research Assistantship program is a Dartmouth-wide opportunity made available to all Juniors who are in the top 40% of their class after their sophomore fall. The assistantship is two terms in length, and students selected into the program are expected to work 7-12 hours per week on their assistantship. A small stipend is provided and the possibility of academic credit exists.

Members of the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science frequently make assistantships available through this program. Below are some recent offerings and recent scholars:

• "Acoustic investigation of consonant-glide- vowel sequences in two Romance languages" (w/ Prof. Chitoran)
  Scholars: Lauren Loehlein 05 and Nathan Saperia 05
• "Acoustic study of Dholuo consonants" (w/ Prof. Chitoran)
  Rachael Degenshein 04
  Abstract (6K PDF File) - 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
• "Discourse analysis of Oroqen Folklore texts" (w/ Prof. Whaley)
  Scholar: Scott Anderson 05
• "The typology of antipassives" (with Prof. Peterson)
• "A Cross-Linguistic Examination of Quantifier Float" (w/ Prof. Whaley)
• "Cross-linguistic study of stress and vowel height interaction" (w/ Prof. Chitoran)
• "Discourse analysis of medical information on the Internet" (w/ Prof. Glinert)
• "Ethical Issues of the Internet" (w/ Prof. Moor)

Interested students should look for the announcement of the Presidential Scholars Program in campus mail during the winter of their sophomore year.