Laura Walsh-Dickey (PhD 1997) visited the Linguistics Department on Monday April 23 to talk to our PhD students about linguistics in industry – the slides from her talk can be found here: https://websites.umass.edu/linguist/files/2019/04/Linguistics-in-Industry-Laura-Dickey.pdf. Laura is a software development manager at Amazon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauradickey)  with a wide range of experience in applications of linguistics to industry. We are very proud of her achievements, and grateful to her for this contribution to the education of our current graduate students.