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Jennifer Richler and Peiyan Wong, 2010 winners of the Jum Nunnally Dissertation Award.
Sep. 21, 2010—Congratulations to Jennifer Richler and Peiyan Wong, 2010 winners of the Jum Nunnally Dissertation Award. The Jum Nunnally Dissertation Award recognizes a recent outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Department of Psychology.
Neuroscience: Assistant Professor
Aug. 26, 2010—The Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, invites applications for a tenure-track position in neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level. To receive full consideration, applications should arrive by November 1.
Palmeri and collaborators win grants for a GPU computing cluster at Vanderbilt
Aug. 3, 2010—Thomas Palmeri is part of a team recently awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the Vanderbilt IDEAS program to build and support a graphics processing unit (GPU) computing cluster to perform calculations on important scientific and e...
Katy Thakkar and Braden Purcell Honored with Department of Psychology Scientific Development Awards
Jun. 17, 2010—These are brand new awards that will be given annually to a select group of students in the graduate program in Psychological Sciences in the Department of Psychology. The awards provide a $5000 fund that can be used to defray the direct expenses of th...
Laura Novick appointed to the National Research Council’s consensus study on discipline based education research
May. 25, 2010—This study will represent a comprehensive examination of learning and teaching in physics, the biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry at the undergraduate level. From the National Academies web site: "The National Research Council (NRC) functi...
Roe promoted to full professor
May. 14, 2010—At the most recent meeting of the Board of Trust, Anna Roe was officially promoted to the rank of professor. Congratulations Anna on a job well done!
Keneisha Sinclair Awarded the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
Apr. 14, 2010—Congratulations to Keneisha Sinclair who has been selected as an awardee in the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship 2010 predoctoral competition. This fellowship is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of...
Emily Grossman wins 2010 Randolph Blake Early Career Award
Feb. 19, 2010—Congratulations to Emily Grossman on winning the 2010 Randolph Blake Early Career Award. This award recognizes exemplary alumni of the Graduate Program in Psychological Sciences at Vanderbilt in the early stages of their career. Emmy received her PhD i...
Tong wins Troland award
Jan. 21, 2010—The National Academy of Science has just announced that Frank Tong is one of the winners of this year's Troland Research Award. Two Trolands are given per year to scientists under the age of 40 for ground-breaking contributions to psychology and/or neu...
Stephenie Harrison wins Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Award
Jan. 12, 2010—Congratulations to Stephenie Harrison on being the 2010 winner of the Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Award for her research project entitled "Orientation specificity and independence in perceptual expertise." The Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Award wa...