2013: The first LSA Linguistic Institute at UM in 40 years, co-directed by Professors Andries Coetzee & Robin Queen.
2011-2013: Marlyse Baptista was President of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
2011: 54 Linguistics concentrators received the B.A., a record number for our department.
2011: Professor Pam Beddor became the John C. Catford Collegiate Professor of Linguistics.
2011, 2012: The Linguistics Department received a Faculty Allies Diversity Grant (renewed in 2012) from the Rackham Graduate School.
2011: The Linguistics Department received a 2011 Departmental Award for Contributions to the Undergraduate Initiative from UM's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
2011: Assistant Professor Andries Coetzee received the first-ever Linguistic Society of America Early Career Award.
2010: Professor Sam Epstein received an Arthur F. Thurnau professorship in recognition of his many contributions to undergraduate education at the University of Michigan.
2010-2013: Professor Sally Thomason was chair of the Linguistics Department.
2010: Associate Professor Robin Queen received an Arthur F. Thurnau professorship in recognition of her many contributions to undergraduate education at the University of Michigan.
2009: Professor Sally Thomason served as President of the Linguistic Society of America.
2009: Professor Samuel D. Epstein received the Rackham Graduate School's John H. D'Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities.
2008: Catherine Fortin (Ph.D. 2007, syntax) received a Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2008 (8 awards were given, selected from a total of 780 dissertations submitted in 2007).
2007: Chandan Narayan (Ph.D. 2006, phonetics) received a Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2007 (ca. 8 awards were given, selected from a total of ca. 750 dissertations submitted in 2006).
2006: Nicholas Pharris (Ph.D. 2006, descriptive linguistics) was selected as the winner of the 2006 Mary Haas Award by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
2006: The Department moved to the fourth floor of Lorch Hall, where we have gorgeous views from floor-to-ceiling office windows but a few too many floods from various sources.
2004: The Department moved from Frieze to the brand new Undergraduate Science Building; soon afterward, the Frieze Building was demolished.
2004-2010: Professor Pam Beddor was chair of the Linguistics Department.
2002: Professor Patrice Speeter (Pam) Beddor received the Rackham Graduate School's John H. D'Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities.
2001: Professor Sarah G. (Sally) Thomason became the William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics.
2000-2004: Professor Lesley Milroy, the Hans Kurath Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, was chair of the Linguistics Department.
2000: THE LINGUISTICS PROGRAM AGAIN BECAME THE LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT; the first chair of the newly restored department was Marilyn Shatz.
2000: Professor Lesley Milroy became the Hans Kurath Collegiate Professor of Linguistics.