We would like to congratulate a distinguished member of the BU GRS Linguistics Department, Ph.D. Student Jackson Kellogg. Kellog has just won the first prize for the Best Student Abstract Award at the 2024 Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. This is the primary national conference for the Linguistics field, organized by their
main professional organization. Kellogg works in the Linguistic subfield of Phonology and has won this prestigious award for his project A focus-controlled acoustic analysis of phrase- and word-level prosody in Amharic.
Our Linguistics program works hard to bring their students to excellence. In fact, at the 2023 Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, another one of our Ph.D. students, Brady Dailey, won first prize in the same award—Best Student Abstract Award— also in the Linguistics subfield of Phonology. Dailey won this award for his project Metrical Structure in Northern Pomo.