{"id":9827,"date":"2017-04-24T06:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T10:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9827"},"modified":"2017-04-23T20:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:30:48","slug":"and-the-2017-shass-levitan-award-goes-to-donca-steriade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/04\/24\/and-the-2017-shass-levitan-award-goes-to-donca-steriade\/","title":{"rendered":"And the 2017 SHASS Levitan Award goes to&#8230; Donca Steriade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/steriade\/\">Donca Steriade<\/a> is among the recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/shass.mit.edu\/news\/news-2017-shass-levitan-teaching-awards-announced\">2017 James A. and Ruth Levitan Teaching Awards in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the 2017 award recipients, Dean Nobles remarked, \u0093This prize honors those instructors in our School who have demonstrated outstanding success in teaching our undergraduate and graduate students. These great educators, who are nominated by students themselves, have made a difference in the lives of our remarkable students.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>That Donca should receive an award for fantastic educators should come as no surprise to those of us lucky enough to have taken one of her classes. David Pesetsky notes, \u0093The most important point is indeed the fact that Donca&#8217;s students themselves nominated her for this award \u0097 honoring one of our most distinguished colleagues and most devoted teachers.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Donca!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own Donca Steriade is among the recipients of the 2017 James A. and Ruth Levitan Teaching Awards in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Announcing the 2017 award recipients, Dean Nobles remarked, \u0093This prize honors those instructors in our School who have demonstrated outstanding success in teaching our undergraduate and graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9827","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\/9827","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9857,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions\/9857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}