{"id":7882,"date":"2015-11-30T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2015-11-29T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:05:57","slug":"john-mccarthy-elected-a-fellow-of-the-aaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/11\/30\/john-mccarthy-elected-a-fellow-of-the-aaas\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCarthy elected a Fellow of the AAAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our alum <a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/john_j_mccarthy\/\"><strong>John J. McCarthy<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 1979), who has been elected a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/2015-aaas-fellows-recognized-contributions-advancing-science\">Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science!<\/a> John is Distinguished University Professor, Vice-Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School at UMass Amherst. He is one of the most eminent researchers in phonology, a pioneer in the development of Optimality Theory and renowned for many contributions to multiple areas of linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>Of the now 40 AAAS Fellows in Linguistics and Language Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/membercentral.aaas.org\/fellows?LastName&Section=Z&Country=All&State=All&name&company\">Section Z<\/a>), 13 are alumni of our PhD program. The roster of Fellows also includes three members of our faculty, David Pesetsky (PhD 1982), emeritus professor Wayne O&#8217;Neil \u0097 and Institute Professor emeritus Noam Chomsky (in the Anthropology Section, since Linguistics did not have a section of its own at the time of his election).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our alum John J. McCarthy (PhD 1979), who has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! John is Distinguished University Professor, Vice-Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School at UMass Amherst. He is one of the most eminent researchers in phonology, a pioneer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}