Congratulations to Katie Franich who successfully defended her dissertation proposal on April 8th, 2015: “The Interaction of Accent, Rhythmic Structure, and Tone in Medʉmba”.

Congratulations to Mike Pham for presenting and defending his dissertation proposal on June 8, entitled “Morphogenesis: decomposing form and meaning”.

Congratulations to Hilary McMahan on her excellent defendse of her QP on “The Kalaallisut demonstrative system: A comparative-historical account within Yupik-Inuit”!

Congratulations to Robert Lewis, for his excellent defense of his first qualifying paper “On Potawatomi word order”!

Congratulations to Jacob Phillips for successfully defending his first QP “Noun incorporation in Sora”!