Congratulations Alex!
Apr. 2, 2015—Dr. Alex Maier has been awarded a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career Starter Grant. Congratulations to Alex for this richly deserved award!
Congratulations to NSF Graduate Fellowship Recipients and Honorable Mentions
Mar. 31, 2015—Congratulations to the graduate students in Psychological Science who received NSF Graduate Fellowships or were recognized by NSF with Honorable Mention! NSF Fellowships recipients: Israel Flores, Mason Garrison, Sofia Jimenez; NSF Honorable Mention: M...
Congratulations Bunmi!
Mar. 31, 2015—Bunmi Olatunji was one of fifteen VU faculty to be selected as a Chancellor Faculty Fellow, in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments in research/scholarship
David Lubinski’s research makes The Boston Globe’s Top Ten articles of 2014!
Jan. 19, 2015—Coverage of David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, and Harrison Kell's research on the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth has gone viral! Study results from 2013 were featured in The Boston Globe and this article received so many online hits it landed i...
Congratulations Jeff!
Dec. 19, 2014—Professor Jeffrey Schall has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Association fellows are elected by their peers for advancing science or its applications. Schall, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neurosc...
Congratulations to Ben and Anat!
Nov. 26, 2014—Dr. Benjamin-Tamber Rosenau and Anat Fintzi, post-doctoral fellow and graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. René Marois, respectively, have won the best poster award at the 2014 Object Perception, visual Attention, and visual Memory (OPAM) annual c...
Dr. Kei Fukuda wins the APA Division 3 award for best Psychonomic Society poster!
Nov. 24, 2014—We would like to congratulate Dr. Kei Fukuda, postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Geoff Woodman’s lab, for winning the American Psychological Association’s Division 3 award for best Psychonomic Society poster at the annual meeting in Long Beach, Californi...
Congratulations Kris!
Oct. 27, 2014—Kris Preacher won the Tanaka Award for Best Article of 2013 in the journal Multivariate Behavioral Research. This award was given by the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology for the article: Preacher, K.J., Zhang, G., Kim, C., & Mels, G....
Welcome Anita Disney!
Oct. 2, 2014—The Department of Psychological Sciences would like to welcome our newest faculty member. here is a news piece on her work. Click here.
Congratulations, Pooja!
Sep. 30, 2014—Pooja Balaram, a graduate student in Jon Kaas' lab, has won the 2014 Krieg Cortical Scholar Prize awarded by the Cajal Club Foundation to a junior neuroscientist who has conducted exemplary research on the cerebral cortex and/or its connections.