The Bilingualism Research Lab, BRL, was founded this summer here at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Professors Luis Lopez Carretero and Kay Gonzalez Vilbazo.  Current student members of the lab are doctoral students Brad Hoot, Shane Ebert, and Laura Bartlett.  Current masters students who are part of the lab are Mirta Lee, Sarah Downey-Gimenez, and Jeanne Heil.

The BRL works in theoretical bilingual research, with a particular interest in code-switching phenomena.