{"id":2785,"date":"2011-05-30T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2011-07-14T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:07:19","slug":"banting-fellowship-for-jessica-coon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/05\/30\/banting-fellowship-for-jessica-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"Banting Fellowship for Jessica Coon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~jcoon\/site\/Home.html\"><strong>Jessica Coon<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 2010), who we earlier announced has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at McGill University, has also been <strong>awarded a <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca\/home-accueil-eng.html\"><strong>Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship<\/strong><\/a>, which will allow her to begin her career at McGill with two years devoted mainly to research.\u00a0\u00a0 Described informally by a colleague as &#8220;the Nobel prize of post-docs&#8221;, the goal of the Banting fellowship program is &#8220;to attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally, to develop their leadership potential and to position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow&#8221;. \u00a0As a Banting Fellow, Jessica will be collaborating with McGill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.mcgill.ca\/linguistics\/faculty\/travis\/home.htm\"><strong>Lisa Travis<\/strong><\/a> (MIT PhD 1984) on an investigation of an array of surprising syntactic parallels between Mayan and Austronesian languages. Congratulations Jessica!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Coon (PhD 2010), who we earlier announced has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at McGill University, has also been awarded a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship, which will allow her to begin her career at McGill with two years devoted mainly to research.\u00a0\u00a0 Described informally by a colleague as &#8220;the Nobel prize of post-docs&#8221;, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","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\/2785","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}