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ICU Graduate Student Has Been Awarded the Yuki Kuroda Fellowship

Update: May 31, 2023

ICU Graduate student, Rina Furusawa (Education and Psychology Program, Area of Language Education), has been awarded the Yuki Kuroda Fellowship on May 5, 2023.

This fellowship is offered by Linguistic Society of America (LSA), in memory of a renowned Japanese linguistics scholar, (Sige-) Yuki Kuroda. This fellowship is given to participants from Japan who wish to participate in Linguistic Summer Institute. Attending this institute is almost a rite of passage for most linguists in the US and Asia. This is the first time ICU students have been awarded this fellowship.

Furusawa majored in linguistics at the ICU College of Liberal Arts and studied theoretical linguistics. Her senior thesis explored the prosody and semantics of the Japanese modal "janai". She continues her study in linguistics at ICU Graduate School Master's Course. At the summer institute in July this year at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Furusawa expects to take courses and interact with world-renowned linguists at the institute to expand her ideas for a master's thesis.

Student comments

For my 2 years in master's course, I thought it would be stimulating to expand my knowledge by interacting with professors and students from all over the world. So, I applied for the fellowship.

It is really an honor to receive this fellowship. I appreciate that Dr. Seunghun Lee, other professors, and my friends helped me to describe what I wanted to convey in the application. Without their support, I could not have even completed it. I am delighted to be able to attend the institute and look forward to learning new things.