Congratulations to our brilliant and accomplished alum Colin Philips (PhD 1996) on his election (announced last week) as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — for “outstanding contributions to psycholinguistics, advocacy for Linguistics and Language Science, superior mentorship and teaching, and a vision of what linguistic education should be”. Colin is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he also heads the Language Science Center. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!!
There are (now) 55 AAAS fellows in the Linguistics and Language Science section of that organization — of whom 18, about 1/3 of the total number, are MIT alums or faculty!