Alumni & Giving

Linguistics Student Fellowship Fund

To provide a base for supporting graduate students. In the shorter term, this fund has enabled via summer fellowships to attend institutes and other training venues pertinent to their research development. In the long run, we hope to have sufficient resources to endow a fellowship for a student, specifically to enable them to complete critical periods of their doctoral research. The current balance is roughly 25% of what is necessary for this purpose.

Linguistics Student Support Fund

To provide support, especially, for undergraduate research, including research grants and short-term fellowships. There is a good base for smaller grants of this type currently, and support for this fund will enable this program to continue and to grow, as more and more undergraduates are finding their way into research projects.

Fred W. Householder Memorial Fund

To provide support for graduate student research expenses. This fund has been providing for a large number of Householder Grants to individual graduate students who are in the process of conducting larger-scale research projects which require financial outlays. Support this fund will enable this very active program to continue. Fred Householder was a long term faculty member in the department who is known for his dedication to graduate student development and research.

Linguistics Student Conference Travel Fund

To provide support grants for linguistics students to attend conferences related to their areas of research. Each year, as many as 10 awards are made to graduate students for this purpose, as conference participation is a crucial element in their developing their awareness of the larger discipline and in networking with eminent scholars in their field of research.

Daniel Dinnsen Excellence in Teaching Fund

To provide support for an annual award for teaching excellence among our graduate students. Each year, a financial award is given to graduate teachers nominated by supervising faculty. Over the past years, student awards have recognized innovations in service learning, and the development of new classes by our graduate students.

Steven B. Chin Scholarship/Fellowship for Linguistics

To support undergraduate scholarships and/or graduate fellowships for students pursuing any degree in the Department of Linguistics within the College of Arts and Sciences. This fund was established in 2022 in memory of Prof. Steven B. Chin, student, scholar and faculty in the speech sciences at Indiana University who, for over 40 years demonstrated his life-long commitment to research, serving, empowering, and advocating for students who share his deep conviction to life-long learning.

Chin Languages Resource Fund

This fund supports efforts in the Indiana Linguistics community to work with and support the Chin communities, many of which are found in Indiana, in documenting, researching, and otherwise supporting their numerous languages.

Linguistics Enrichment Fund

The Linguistics Enrichment Fund is our longest-running fund, supporting a variety of departmental activities, as well as underwriting the other funds in cases where they are drawn down.

The Linguist List Discretionary Fund

The Linguist List is dedicated to disseminating information on languages and linguistics and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in an increasingly digital world. Linguist List is a free resource, run by linguistics faculty and graduate students and supported crucially by the donations of our readership.

Computational Linguistics Enrichment Fund

This fund supports students' conference presentations, access to vital research resources like corpora, and specialized training events. Your partnership and support funds budding computational linguists and fosters a profound impact on the field's progression.

Additional resources

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