Announcements
Albert Valdman Fund Created
August 2008. The Department is pleased to announce the creation of the Albert Valdman Graduate Student Research and Travel Fund in honor of Rudy Professor Emeritus Albert Valdman, to foster graduate student development as Professor Valdman has throughout his career. The fund will be used to pay research and travel expenses for graduate students in the French linguistics MA and PhD programs. “As his colleagues and former students,” says Associate Professor Julie Auger, “we feel strongly that we would not be where we are in our lives today, both personally and professionally, without the benefit of Professor Valdman’s teaching and mentoring.” Valdman, still very active in research on Haitian Creole and Louisiana French, retired from the faculty of the Department of French and Italian and the Department of Linguistics in 2004, but still serves as Director of the Creole Institute. If you would like to support this fund in his name, please click the GIVE NOW button.
