The National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington DC has announced the winners of its most recent cycle of grants, in which it awarded $39.3 million to 245 Humanities Projects nationwide. One...

A three-year, $231,649 research grant from the National Science Foundation will support a study by linguistics professor Alice Harris to analyze the processing and production differences among clitics, in different positions, and to test whether differences are the same cross-linguistically.

The UMass Amherst Department of English will revive a long running symposium devoted to the study of the teaching of writing, founded and endowed in 1999 by Professor Peter Elbow.