{"id":3674,"date":"2008-04-03T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/honourable-mentions\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:49:19","slug":"honourable-mentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/honourable-mentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Honourable mentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1963 the Australian National University has annually awarded the <i>University Medal<\/i> as its most prestigious undergraduate academic prize. At each conferring of degrees ceremony the University&#8217;s most outstanding first class honours students are recognised with the award. An <i>Honour Board<\/i> displaying the names of all University Medal winning students was launched in February 2008 and is now on display in the Great Hall, University House, Canberra. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/info.anu.edu.au\/mac\/Alumni\/Events\/Past\/_uni_medal_honour_board.asp\">Virtual Honour Board<\/a> on the ANU website.<br \/>\nBetween 1974 and the present 17 Linguistics students have been awarded the medal, and quite a few names that will be familiar to readers of this blog are among them. They include a number of students who went on to do PhDs and further research describing and\/or documenting endangered languages:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n1974    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/staff\/staff30592.php\">Peter Austin<\/a><br \/>\n1974    <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/oceanic_linguistics\/v044\/44.1lynch02.pdf \">Terry Crowley<\/a> [.pdf]<br \/>\n1978    <a href=\"http:\/\/crlao.ehess.fr\/document.php?id=112\">Hilary Chappell<\/a><br \/>\n1979    <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Durie\">Mark Durie<\/a><br \/>\n1980    <a href=\"http:\/\/aerg.canberra.edu.au\/php\/showstudent.php?usercode=tunbridge\">Dorothy Tunbridge<\/a><br \/>\n1981    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/linguistics\/nash\/wilkins.html\">David Wilkins<\/a><br \/>\n1989    <a href=\"http:\/\/nlp.stanford.edu\/~manning\/\">Christopher Manning<\/a><br \/>\n1992    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au\/staff\/homepage.asp?Name=Tim.Curnow\">Timothy Curnow<\/a><br \/>\n1992    Rochelle Gray<br \/>\n1994    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isrl.uiuc.edu\/~amag\/langev\/author\/mdunn.html\">Michael Dunn<\/a><br \/>\n1995    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llc.manchester.ac.uk\/subjects\/lel\/staff\/beth-evans\/\">Bethwyn Evans<\/a><br \/>\n1997    Lynette Heywood<br \/>\n1997    Sarah Virtue<br \/>\n1998    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruf.rice.edu\/~bowern\/\">Claire Bowern<\/a><br \/>\n2000    Brigid Maher<br \/>\n2003    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/lifematters\/galleries\/2008\/2165771\/image.htm\">Anna Brotherson<\/a><br \/>\n2005    Kurt Vall<br \/>\nInterestingly, 6 (35%) of these scholars are among <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/01\/australias-linguistic-exports\/\">Australia&#8217;s Linguistic Exports<\/a>, one (Wilkins) was exported and then reimported, while one (Crowley) was exported and passed away overseas. Seems like ANU has been quite a &#8216;breeding ground&#8217; for exportable linguists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1963 the Australian National University has annually awarded the University Medal as its most prestigious undergraduate academic prize. At each conferring of degrees ceremony the University&#8217;s most outstanding first class honours students are recognised with the award. An Honour Board displaying the names of all University Medal winning students was launched in February 2008 &#8230; <a title=\"Honourable mentions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/honourable-mentions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Honourable mentions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}