Professor Jim Rogers (Earlham College) will be a visiting scholar in the department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science for the 2012-2013 academic year. Professor Rémi Eyraud (Aix-Marseilles University) will also be visiting the department to participate in the computational linguistics meetings during the 2012-2013 academic year.

Professor Fred Adams returned from being a visiting Lecturer on Information and Action in Complex Systems as part of the Faculty of Philosophy and Science at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) at Campus de Marilia in Brazil.

Dr. Benjamin Bruening will become chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science effective September 1, 2012. Dr. Bruening is looking forward to leading the department and its array of programs to new levels of achievement. These programs include the nascent but growing undergraduate programs in cognitive science (including the popular speech pathology track) and in linguistics, in addition to important MA programs and a nationally recognized linguistics PhD program.