Rebecca Anne Barnes

EDUCATION:
● Bachelor of Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
○ Fields of study (majors): Linguistics (within the Letters, Arts, and Sciences
department), Spanish, and French
○ Projected Graduation Date: May, 2019
○ Cumulative GPA: 3.88
■ Dean’s List: 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018
○ Schreyer Honors College, Paterno Fellows Program, College of the Liberal Arts
■ Senior Honors Thesis Title: Lengua Palenquera and Spanish: What keeps
them apart?
● Research Abroad:
○ Summer 2016: University of Granada, Granada, Spain
■ PIRE fellowship (Partners for International Research and Education and
the Centers for Language Science) (May and June 2016)
○ Summer 2017: University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
■ PIRE II fellowship (June and July 2017)
○ Summer 2018: Continuation of linguistics research in Palenque, Colombia
■ Erickson Discovery Grant (funded by the Schreyer Honors College) (June
and July 2018)
● Grants and Awards:
○ Partners for International Research and Education (PIRE) (Summer of 2016)
○ The Mr. and Mrs. Paterno Award for academic merit (Fall 2016)
○ Richard Zimler Undergraduate research Award in Portuguese (Spring of 2017)
○ Partners for International Research and Education II (PIRE II) (Summer of 2017)
○ Star Member Award of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (Fall 2017)
○ Schreyer travel grant I to present at ESU (Spring 2018)
○ Schreyer travel grant II to present at CLAUSE̥ (Spring 2018)
○ Erickson Discovery Grant (Summer of 2018)
○ The Kroll Undergraduate Research Award (Summer of 2018)
○ Student Engagement Network (SEN) award for undergraduate research (Summer
2018)
○ The Mr. and Mrs. Berry award for undergraduate research (Summer 2018)
● Conferences:
○ Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition in Linguistics (PSUxling3) 2016
○ Centers for Language Science (CLS) undergraduate conference 2016
○ PSUxling4 2017
○ Student Engagement EXPO 2017
○ CLS undergraduate conference 2017
○ 2nd Annual Modern Languages Student Conference at East Stroudsburg
University (ESU) 2018
○ The 2nd Canadian Linguistics Annual Symposium (CLAUSE̥) at Mcgill
University 2018