Peabody graduate student Gregory Park wins 2010 Mensa Award
Nov. 23, 2010—Peabody graduate student Gregory Park won a 2010 Mensa Award for Excellence in Research for work published in Psychological Science
PhD grad Jonathan Wai wins 2010 Mensa Award
Nov. 22, 2010—Recent Peabody Ph.D grad Jonathan Wai won a 2010 Mensa Award for Excellence in Research for work published in the Journal of Educational Psychology on the role of spatial ability in the development of gifted children and adults.
Neurons cast votes to guide decision-making
Oct. 11, 2010—A new paper published in Psychological Review by Purcell, Heitz, Cohen, Schall, Logan, and Palmeri is highlighted in a Vanderbilt news story: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2010/10/neurons-cast-votes-to-guide-decision-making/
Professor of Quantitative Methods in Psychology and Human Development
Sep. 23, 2010—Professor of Quantitative Methods in Psychology and Human DevelopmentVanderbilt University's Peabody College's Department of Psychology and Human Development, invites applications for a tenured full professor position in quantitative methods.
Developmental Neuroscience: Assistant Professor
Sep. 23, 2010—Developmental Psychology/Developmental Neuroscience Tenure-Track Position Vanderbilt University's Peabody College's Department of Psychology and Human Development invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Developmental Psychology.
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...