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Logan, Palmeri, Schall awarded Chancellor’s Award for Research
Sep. 1, 2009—At the Fall Faculty Assembly, Gordon Logan, Tom Palmeri, and Jeff Schall were awarded a Chancellor's Award for Research for the theoretical and empirical work summarized in their wonderful 2007 Psychological Review paper. Their research has combined be...
Wong wins SfN Cortical Scholar award
Aug. 28, 2009—Peiyan Wong received the Cortical Scholar award from the Cajal Club for her PhD research. She receives $1000 plus travel expenses to the Society for Neuroscience meeting where she will accept the award at the Cajal Club Meeting.
Gauthier promoted to Professor; W. Smith recognized as emeritus
May. 15, 2009—Isabel Gauthier has officially been promoted to the rank of full Professor, an honor that reflects her influential body of work in visual object recognition. Bill Smith has also been recognized as an emeritus professor of psychology for his decades of ...
David Lyon wins the Randolph Blake Early Career Award
Feb. 19, 2009—David Lyon is this year's winner of the Randolph Blake Early Career Award. This award recognizes exemplary alumni of the program in Psychological Sciences in the early stages of their career.
Team of Laura Novick and Kefyn Catley awarded IES grant
Dec. 29, 2008—The team of Laura Novick, PhD (Department of Psychology and Human Development) and Kefyn Catley were awarded an IES grant to (a) study college and high school students' understanding of tree diagrams that depict evolutionary relationships among taxa (p...
Shelly Ball receives dissertation enhancement grant
Dec. 29, 2008—Congratulations to Shelly Ball (Psychology and Human Development) who received a dissertation enhancement grant.
Kaas wins A&S Graduate Mentoring Award
Dec. 10, 2008—At the meeting of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences on December 10, Jon Kaas won the prestigious College of Arts and Science Graduate Mentoring Award. Congratulations to Jon for this recognition of his decades of excellence in graduate me...
Tong, Blake, McNamara honored for their work
Aug. 27, 2008—At the fall faculty assembly on August 26, three of our faculty were honored for their research and service to VanderbiltFrank Tong won a Chancellor's Award for his ground-breaking research on neural decoding. Randolph Blake won the Jefferson Award for...
Olatunji wins Early Career Award
Aug. 12, 2008—In recognition of his outstanding research in the area of anxiety disorders, Bunmi Olatunji is the 2008 recipient of the Early Career Award from the Anxiety Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. Way to go, Bunmi!
Richard McCarty named provost at Vanderbilt
May. 6, 2008—Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has led the largest school at Vanderbilt University for the past seven years, will be presented to the Vanderbilt Board of Trust next week for confirmation as the university's chief academic officer.