{"id":17394,"date":"2025-09-08T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17394"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:15:39","slug":"alum-news-wu-to-geneva-and-yuan-tenured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/09\/08\/alum-news-wu-to-geneva-and-yuan-tenured\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum news: Wu to Geneva, and Yuan tenured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two pieces of great news about our recent alums\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dfwu.github.io\"><strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 2022) and <a href=\"https:\/\/yuan.humspace.ucla.edu\"><strong>Michelle Yuan<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 2018).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just received the great news that <a href=\"https:\/\/dfwu.github.io\"><strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong><\/a> has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unige.ch\/lettres\/linguistique\/en\/welcome\">University of Geneva<\/a> (en fran\u00e7ais: &#8220;professeure assistante avec pr\u00e9titularisation conditionnelle&#8221;). A specialist in syntax and semantics, and especially their interaction with prosody, Danfeng has been a &#8220;Fellow by Examination&#8221; for the past three years at Magdalen College, Oxford, since completing her degree here at MIT. \u00a0Congratulations, Danfeng!! Congratulations, Geneva!!<\/p>\n<p>And we have also learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/yuan.humspace.ucla.edu\"> <strong>Michelle Yuan<\/strong><\/a> has been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at UCLA. \u00a0Congratulations, Michelle, and congratulations, UCLA!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pieces of great news about our recent alums\u00a0Danfeng Wu (PhD 2022) and Michelle Yuan (PhD 2018). We&#8217;ve just received the great news that Danfeng Wu has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Geneva (en fran\u00e7ais: &#8220;professeure assistante avec pr\u00e9titularisation conditionnelle&#8221;). A specialist in syntax and semantics, and especially their interaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17395,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}