World map of languages. It includes dozens of language families with color-coding to show where the originated.
What’s up with languages at USM? USM’s language offerings have recently expanded. But that’s only part of the story. Read the full What’s Up With Languages at USM page for more information.

Congratulations to our students who made the Spring 2026 Dean’s List!

Spring 2026 Dean’s List students in alphabetical order by last name: Mattea Black, Hannah Byers, Gwendolin Chayer, Gabby Cody, Liam Connor-Schaefer, Julia Elie, Stella Fagan, Cayden Fournier, Abiola Goff, Summer Gray, Ella Hawkins, Madelyn Jamieson, Davis Jones, Aaron Kane, Susan Keiler, Isabel Kimble, Maria Mash, Erin Norbert, Olive Paternoster, Samuel Reasoner, Riley Reitchel, Sofia Ruiz, Kaswera Salima, Kiley Serpa, Lilly Shaw, Emilyn Smith and Amelia Welle. Thank you all for your hard work in our program and university!

MAINE DEAF FILM FESTIVAL
MDFF 2026 – November 6th & 7th

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Linguistics students shadow-sign As You Like It

Linguistics students shadow-sign As You Like It

ASL shadowed productions offer Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences the experience of theater instead of a sole interpreter. Each speaking actor is shadowed by a signing actor.

Prof. Dana McDaniel with a child in a language acquisition study.
Prof. McDaniel with child in a language acquisition study

Prof. McDaniel with child in a language acquisition study

One of Professor McDaniel’s research areas is child language acquisition. She studies children’s syntactic knowledge through language games. This child is describing a scene shown on the computer.