The Vives Network of Universities awards the gold medal to Gemma Rigau
Gemma Rigau, honorary lecturer in the Department of Catalan Studies at the UAB, will receive the Gold Medal of the Vives Network of Universities at a ceremony to be held on 10 July at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The award recognises "the professional career and commitment to science, culture and society" of Rigau, who will be distinguished along with writer Josep Vallverdú and sociologist Rafael Castelló. The ceremony will take place at 12 noon in the ETSECCPB auditorium of the C2 building of the North Campus (Carrer de Jordi Girona, 1-3, Barcelona).
The gold medals are awarded by the General Council of the Vives Network of Universities, made up of the 22 rectors of the member universities, which brings together the higher education institutions of the Catalan-speaking territories. At the award ceremony, which will be attended by the rector of the UAB, Javier Lafuente, honorary lecturer of the Department of Catalan Studies at the UAB, Joan Mascaró, will deliver a laudatio of Rigau.
Rigau earned her PhD in Romance philology from the University of Barcelona. At the UAB, she has been professor of Catalan Studies, vice-director and director of the Department of Catalan Studies and coordinator of the Theoretical Linguistics Group, a consolidated research group. During her long academic career, she has made important contributions to theoretical linguistics, ranging from discourse linguistics to sentence syntax and lexical structure of Catalan and Romance languages.
She is member of the Philological Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies since 2002. She has received, among other distinctions, the Pompeu Fabra Award from the Institute for Catalan Studies, the Manuel Sanchis Guarner Award for Language Unity from the Jaume I Foundation, the Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit, and the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Government of Catalonia.
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