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Linguistics professor wins Laval Award

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Professor Gerald McMenamin was named the recipient of the 2001-2002 Claude C. Laval Jr. Award for Innovative Technology and Research for his proposal, "American Writing Project."

A professor in the department of linguistics, McMenamin won the $5,000 award his proposal to provide baseline information for any forensic linguist attempting to determine the relative significance of particular markers of writing style.

McMenamin, a recognized scholar in stylistics and an internationally known forensic linguist, has been sought in highly critical cases at the national and international levels. The Laval Award project also will expand collaboration and partnership with the Bullard High School Humanities project.

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