{"id":3105,"date":"2011-10-12T05:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T09:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2011-10-11T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:35:24","slug":"irene-heim-elected-2012-lsa-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/10\/12\/irene-heim-elected-2012-lsa-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Irene Heim elected 2012 LSA Fellow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Pesetsky writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/heim\/index.html\"><b>Irene Heim<\/b><\/a> has been elected a 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsadc.org\/info\/lsa-fellows.cfm\">Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America<\/a>. Each year since 2006, the LSA honors several of its members for &#8220;distinguished contributions to the discipline&#8221;.  Irene is the third current MIT faculty member to be honored in this fashion, following in the footsteps of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/halle\/index.html\">Morris Halle<\/a> (2006) and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/chomsky\/index.html\">Noam Chomsky<\/a> (2007).  Four former faculty are also fellows, and about a third of the current fellows (21 of 75) are alumni of our PhD program.<\/p>\n<p>The induction ceremony will take place at the LSA meeting in Portand on Friday,<br clear='none'\/>\nJanuary 6, 2012, as part of the Business Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great honor for Irene, richly deserved.  I&#8217;m sure you join me in<br clear='none'\/>\nexpressing our warmest congratulations!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pesetsky writes: &#8220;Irene Heim has been elected a 2012 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. Each year since 2006, the LSA honors several of its members for &#8220;distinguished contributions to the discipline&#8221;. Irene is the third current MIT faculty member to be honored in this fashion, following in the footsteps of Morris Halle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}