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Timothy Montler, Distin-
guished Research Professor
in the Department of English,
received a $317,502 Docu-
menting Endangered Lan-
guages grant through a joint
program of the National
Science Foundation and the
National Endowment for the
Humanities to create a Klallam
dictionary and electronic text
archive. Klallam is the native
language of the Klallam tribes
in northwest Washington and
southern Vancouver Island.
Montler's work, which
includes the development of
tools to teach Klallam, will
ensure the survival of the lan-
guage, which was rapidly
disappearing 15 years ago
because few tribal members
grew up speaking it. Montler
began working with Klallam in
1992 and already has created
computer games for schools in
Port Angeles, Wash., near the
Lower Elwha Klallam reserva-
tion, to teach the language.
After he developed teaching
materials, Port Angeles High
School began offering Klallamlanguage classes for foreign
language credit, and several
elementary schools also teach
Klallam.
Montler says the dictionary
must be created while there are
still native-speaking elders to
help with the project. Accord-
ing to the NEH, experts esti-
mate that more than half of
the about 7,000 currently used
human languages will stop
being spoken in this century.
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The UNT-Chile Field
Station at the UNESCO Cape
Horn Biosphere Reserve pro-
vides students with the oppor-
tunity to study biocultural
history, natural history, biology
and field philosophy, and pro-
vides an outstanding location
for researchers to test philo-
sophic claims with real-world
challenges. The information and
insights brought back to the
classroom for analysis from the
field will help determine howTimothy Montler is pictured with
four generations of Klallam
language teachers and learners.
He is creating a Klallam dictionary
and electronic text archive to helpl
preserve the native language.
to develop the Cape Horn
region in a sustainable fashion.
The mission of the station
is to incorporate a broad range
of perspectives, including those
of the members of the indige-
nous Yaghan tribe, members of
the Chilean government and
military, citizens of Chile,
non-governmental organizations
such as UNESCO, an interna-
tional team of science and
humanities researchers, and
tourism managers. The UNT-
Chile Program at Cape Horn
is supported by a $15 million
grant from the Chilean NSF
(CONICYT).
Ricardo Rozzi, assistant
professor of philosophy
and religion studies, is the
director of the Chile program.
Also involved in the interdisci-plinary research are Robert
Frodeman, associate professor
and chair of the Department
of Philosophy and Religion
Studies; J. Britt Holbrook,
philosophy and religion studies
research assistant professor;
and James Kennedy, professor
of biological sciences.
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for ways to make global teams
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located in different countries.
The National Science Foun-
dation awarded a $499,252
grant to Kathleen Swigger,
professor of computer science
and engineering, to study the
performance of student teams
working on a large software
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Horn is an international network
for interdisciplinary environmental
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