<font><font face="georgia,serif">UA Researcher Part of Global Language Preservation Initiative<br><br>By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications, June 29, 2012<br>USA<br><br>UA researcher Susan D. Penfield is serving on the advisory committee to the Endangered Languages Project, a global linguistic diversity initiative seeded by Google.<br>
<br>Seeded by Google.org, the Endangered Languages Project has been launched for people around the world who are interested in learning about and working to preserve near-extinct languages – and a University of Arizona researcher is among those advising the initiative.<br>
<br>Susan D. Penfield, research coordinator for the UA's Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy, or CERCLL, has been serving as a member of Google's invitation-only Alliance Advisory Committee.<br>
<br>Penfield and other members of the advisory committee have "provided guidance, helping shape the site and ensure that it addresses the interests and needs of language communities," Google noted on its official blog, announcing the project launch on June 20.<br>
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