Staff Talk:
The next Staff Talk will be a Town Meeting, convened by Ken Pugh and scheduled for Thursday, May 1, 2008. Additional information is forthcoming.

News

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the NEW ENGLAND SEQUENCING AND TIMING (NEST) was held on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at Haskins.

Patrick W. Nye passed away on March 7, 2008.

Douglas Honorof, a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories, linguist and dialect coach, and lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, Editor at Large for the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared on WNYC, New York Public Radio, on The Leonard Lopate Show. In this episode, called Please Explain: Dialects (January 19, 2007), Doug and Jesse answered questions about why languages have different dialects. 

Reading Study:
Dr. Leonard Katz is conducting a Reading Study. Go here for more information.

Other News and Events:

We have started to archive research posters and presentations created by members of the Haskins community.

The informal Haskins Reading Seminar is on hiatus.

Gallery @ Haskins
Facing Modernity: Photos and Posters from the collection of Philip Rubin. January 7 to March 31, 2008. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am–4 pm.

The Seventeenth Annual NEST Meeting was held at Haskins Laboratories on March 17, 2007.

Website Changes:

A new History section has been added.

An Oral History of Haskins Laboratories has been added to the History section.

A News Archive section has been added.

The Keystone Reporting System has been released and can be found in the Employee Intranet section of the site.

Board News:
Bruce F. Carmichael, Associate Provost for Science & Technology at Yale University, has joined the Haskins Board of Directors as the new Yale ex officio member.

April 6, 2006. Links between production and perception in speech to be studied in NIH grant (A-93, Douglas H. Whalen, PI).

Teacher Quality Grant:
Mastering Reading Instruction.
U.S. Department of Education; Susan Brady, PI.
This project will investigate effective strategies for improving the preparation of classroom teachers to teach reading in the first grade.

Adolescent Reading Program:
Behavioral and Neural Effects
NIH/NICHD, Hollis Scarborough, PI.
This project will examine the effectiveness of several research driven methods for improving the reading abilities of struggling adolescent readers.

New Funding Opportunities:
Be sure to check the Grants page to find out about funding opportunities and grants-related information. The NSF has announced the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation program. The Letter of Intent window is Oct. 30 - Nov. 30, 2007.

People:

Julia Irwin's audio-visual research was featured in the October 2007 issue of Acoustics Today.

Philip Rubin was named as a Fellow of Trumbull College at Yale University on Sep. 20, 2007.

Douglas Whalen, Vice President for Research, is presently on loan to the National Science Foundation where he is a program officer for the Linguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Documenting Endangered Languages programs.