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PIES at AMP 2026

Published: October 5, 2026

At this year’s Annual Meeting on Phonology, we will have presentations from two current and former PIES graduate students. Ryan Sandell, former graduate of PIES and associate professor in the…

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Tom Francis and Muhammad Rehan present at Connected Past

Published: September 26, 2026

Tom Francis (PhD Candidate, Department of Classics) and Muhammad Rehan recently presented a paper titled “Modeling Alphabet Diffusion and Community Interactions in Ancient Italy with Spatiotemporal Point Processes” at the…

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Anahita, Valentina, Alex, and Paolo on Humanities website

Published: June 29, 2026

Congratulations to Anahita, Valentina, Alex, and Paolo, whose recent accomplishments are now being celebrated on the Humanities website, thanks to Sean Brenner: https://humanities.ucla.edu/news/indo-european-studies-scholars-fellowships-teaching/

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Muhammad Rehan receives Keck grant

Published: June 4, 2026

Muhammad Rehan has received a Keck grant to work with Kie Zuraw in Linguistics on building a R package called MUSE. The package will be designed to ingest and analyze…

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Valentina Lunardi wins a three-year postdoc at Ghent

Published: May 25, 2026

Congratulations to PIES PhD candidate Valentina Lunardi for winning a three-year postdoctoral Fellowship funded by Belgium’s Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)! Hosted by Ghent University’s Linguistics Department, Valentina will be using…

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