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Stuart Langton, acting director of the Lincoln Fil...

1981

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Named dean of the College of Pure and Applied Sciences was Dr. Joseph Salamone, who has served as acting dean since 1978. Dean Salamone received the BS degree from Hofstra University in 1961 and the PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. A specialist in polymer chemistry, Salamone was recently elected in a world-wide balloting to be chairman of the Polymer Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Morris Halle, a scholar in linguistics, particularly in the areas of phonology, metrics, historical linguistics and the Slavic languages, has been appointed Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The title, which can be held by only 12 active faculty members at one time, is reserved for scholars of special distinction. Institute Professors are nominated by their colleagues and selected by a special faculty committee. Prof. Halle, who has been Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages since 1976, joined the MIT faculty in 1951 and has been in charge of the linguistics program since it began in the 1950s. In 1976-77 he was head of the newly formed Department of Linguistics and philosophy during its first year of operation.

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• Subject: Halle, Morris / Hartshorn, Charles E Jr / Langton, Stuart / Shannon, William V / Wright, James