We have received a short note from Dr. Alexandru Nicolae, current Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT, who let us know about his participation in a linguistic symposium on Romance languages held at Stony Brook University (March 31- April 3). Dr. Nicolae presented the paper titled  „Interpolation in Old Romanian and Istro-Romanian” (co-author: Adina Dragomirescu). More details are available on the conference website: