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Binh Nguyen (2022)

University of Arizona

Think Tank

Binh Nguyen (they/them) is a junior in Linguistics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona. With an interest in the interactions between language and history, Binh has published their English translation of the medieval Vietnamese verse novel Tale of Kiều, and has been researching phonological changes in seventeenth-century Vietnamese. This summer, besides working with the think tank on Russian and Eastern European sociolinguistics, Binh is also a research intern at the Space Telescope Science Institute, looking at cosmological simulations to understand how the Milky Way got its star-studded halo.