{"id":8020,"date":"2016-02-16T06:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T02:29:47","slug":"canada-research-chair-for-jessica-coon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/02\/16\/canada-research-chair-for-jessica-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Research Chair for Jessica Coon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news \u0097 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jessica.lingspace.org\/\">Jessica Coon<\/a><\/strong> (PhD 2010), Associate Professor of Linguistics at McGill, <a href=\"http:\/\/publications.mcgill.ca\/reporter\/2016\/02\/25-canada-research-chairs-for-mcgill\/\"> has been awarded<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca\/chairholders-titulaires\/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=3419\">Canada Research Chair<\/a>! Canada Research Chairs were created &#8220;to attract and retain some of the world\u0092s most accomplished and promising minds. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.&#8221; Congratulations Jessica!!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. In receiving this honor, Jessica joins another of our PhD alums at McGill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/wagner\"><strong>Michael Wagner<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 2005), another Canada Research Chair holder of whom we are proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news \u0097 Jessica Coon (PhD 2010), Associate Professor of Linguistics at McGill, has been awarded a Canada Research Chair! Canada Research Chairs were created &#8220;to attract and retain some of the world\u0092s most accomplished and promising minds. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social [&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-8020","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\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}