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- \n\u0091Song of the human\u0092 by the British composer Pete M. Wyer composed under a commission from Arts Brookfield is premiering in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center in New York City on October 12, with an installation to follow starting on October 15. One source of the idea for this original orchestral and choir piece came from MIT faculty Shigeru Miyagawa<\/a><\/strong>\u0092s Integration Hypothesis. More details about the composition and the event\u00a0here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.artsbrookfield.com\/event\/songofthehuman\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Faculty Michel Degraff<\/strong><\/a> reports: “During two weeks in June (June 13-24), the MIT-Haiti Initiative team was in the town of Limonade, in Northern Haiti. In collaboration with the Campus Henry Christophe, Limonade, of Haiti’s State University (“CHCL-UEH”), we had a 4-day workshop on Krey\u00f2l-based and active-learning of science and mathematics. The workshop was attended by 43 professors in math, physics, chemistry and biology. We also spent a week of intensive consultation with CHCL-UEH faculty and administration, working on improvement of curricula, active-learning materials and interactive pedagogy in science, mathematics and Haitian Creole. One outcome was the creation of a teaching-and-learning center at CHCL-UEH. This work was funded, in part, by CHCL-UEH, the National Science Foundation and by the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.” More information about the collaboration and pictures can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Michel Degraff<\/strong>\u00a0also attended\u00a0the 2016 Meeting of the Society of Caribbean Linguistics<\/a>, held Aug. 1-6, 2016 at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, where he gave a keynote talk, “A Workshop on Language & Liberation: The MIT-Haiti Initiative as case study of ‘Caribbean SPEAKERS to the world,” and took part\u00a0in a panel on “The Linguist as Public Intellectual.”\u00a0Michel adds that he “also had the opportunity\u00a0to discuss with authorities at Jamaica’s Ministry of Education on the importance of Jamaican Creole for improving education outcomes in Jamaica.”\u00a0Pictures of the conference can be found here<\/a>, and interviews given by Michel can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Fifth-year grad student Sam Zukoff<\/a><\/strong> attended the\u00a035th Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, held in Athens, GA June 6-8, where he presented a talk entitled “The phonology of Anatolian reduplication<\/a>” with co-author Anthony D.\u00a0Yates<\/a> (UCLA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Fourth-year grad student Kenyon Branan<\/a><\/strong> and faculty Norvin Richards<\/a><\/strong> presented at The Effects of Constituency on Sentence Phonology<\/a> workshop held at UMass Amherst July 29-31. Kenyon’s poster was entitled “A prosodic approach to intervention,” while Norvin gave an invited talk\u00a0on “Contiguity theory and pied-piping”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Fourth-year grad student Kenyon Branan<\/a><\/strong> and faculty Norvin Richards<\/a><\/strong> presented at The Effects of Constituency on Sentence Phonology<\/a> workshop held at UMass Amherst July 29-31. Kenyon’s poster was entitled “A prosodic approach to intervention,” while Norvin gave an invited talk\u00a0on “Contiguity theory and pied-piping”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- Fifth-year grad student Sam Zukoff<\/a><\/strong> attended the\u00a035th Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, held in Athens, GA June 6-8, where he presented a talk entitled “The phonology of Anatolian reduplication<\/a>” with co-author Anthony D.\u00a0Yates<\/a> (UCLA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Michel Degraff<\/strong>\u00a0also attended\u00a0the 2016 Meeting of the Society of Caribbean Linguistics<\/a>, held Aug. 1-6, 2016 at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, where he gave a keynote talk, “A Workshop on Language & Liberation: The MIT-Haiti Initiative as case study of ‘Caribbean SPEAKERS to the world,” and took part\u00a0in a panel on “The Linguist as Public Intellectual.”\u00a0Michel adds that he “also had the opportunity\u00a0to discuss with authorities at Jamaica’s Ministry of Education on the importance of Jamaican Creole for improving education outcomes in Jamaica.”\u00a0Pictures of the conference can be found here<\/a>, and interviews given by Michel can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Faculty Michel Degraff<\/strong><\/a> reports: “During two weeks in June (June 13-24), the MIT-Haiti Initiative team was in the town of Limonade, in Northern Haiti. In collaboration with the Campus Henry Christophe, Limonade, of Haiti’s State University (“CHCL-UEH”), we had a 4-day workshop on Krey\u00f2l-based and active-learning of science and mathematics. The workshop was attended by 43 professors in math, physics, chemistry and biology. We also spent a week of intensive consultation with CHCL-UEH faculty and administration, working on improvement of curricula, active-learning materials and interactive pedagogy in science, mathematics and Haitian Creole. One outcome was the creation of a teaching-and-learning center at CHCL-UEH. This work was funded, in part, by CHCL-UEH, the National Science Foundation and by the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.” More information about the collaboration and pictures can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n