Students eligible to receive a Humanities Dissertation Release may also apply to be designated a Gil Watz Dissertation Fellow with the Center for Language Acquisition. Watz Fellows receive a $1,000 research budget from the Center to support their dissertation research and make a presentation to the Round Table of the Department of Applied Linguistics. For more information and to apply, see: https://la.psu.edu/current-students/graduate-students/student-resources/funding-opportunities/center-institute-fellows-program

• 2021: Kelly Bayas, Valerie Keppenne, Yulia Khoruzhaya, and Jingyuan Zhuang
• 2020: Katherine Kerschen and Lindsey Chandler
• 2019: Yingying Liu
• 2018: Michael Amory, Junwan Yoon, and Naseh Shahri
• 2017: Miso Kim