{"id":11099,"date":"2018-05-14T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2018-05-14T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T21:15:37","slug":"pesetsky-steps-down-as-department-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/05\/14\/pesetsky-steps-down-as-department-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesetsky ends term as Department Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five years, David Pesetsky is stepping down as department head this summer. In his honour, a party was held to celebrate his contributions and achievements as head. Delicious food and drinks were followed by a seemingly endless supply of cake.\u00a0Danny Fox and Alex Byrne spoke about David&#8217;s commitment to his work, to students, and to the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180502_163317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11104\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180502_163317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entertainment for the event was a student-led song-and-dance performance featuring (left to right): Danfeng Wu (tap), Milena Sisovics (violin), Verena Hehl (viola), Frank Staniszewski and Mitya Privoznov (piano) and Elise Newman (vocals). To thank him for his service, David received gifts including a book of Russian poetry (one of the first editions of Akhmatova) and some fancy port, which he is unboxing below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180502_164033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11105\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180502_164033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David will be taking a well-deserved sabbatical in the Fall. Thank you for all your hard work as department head, David!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Sze-Wing Tang for the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five years, David Pesetsky is stepping down as department head this summer. In his honour, a party was held to celebrate his contributions and achievements as head. Delicious food and drinks were followed by a seemingly endless supply of cake.\u00a0Danny Fox and Alex Byrne spoke about David&#8217;s commitment to his work, to students, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11141,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}