Connor Mason, a first-year linguistics student and professorial assistant for the MI Diaries project, received a first-place award at MSU's 2026 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Fair (UURAF) in the Linguistics, Languages, and Speech category! Connor's project, advised by professors Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner, used data from the MI Diaries corpus to investigate the term 'lowkey', its grammatical role, and how its usage is changing over time. Read the full article here.