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Feb. 16, 2024 – Sarah Brown-Schmidt was selected as a Fellow of Cognitive Science Society! It’s a huge honor and very well deserved. Congratulations, Sarah! You can read more about her research here.
Feb. 02, 2024 – Alex Christensen and Eric Wilkey have been named 2024 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Stars. This award recognizes early career scholars whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. Very well deserved. Congratulations!
Aug. 25, 2023 – Kate Humphreys was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research today at the fall faculty assembly. The Chancellor’s Award for Research recognizes excellence in research published in the past several years. Congratulations, Kate!
Nov. 29, 2022 – Meg Saylor for being selected as the 2022 recipient of the Chancellor’s cup! It is given annually for “the greatest contribution outside the classroom to undergraduate student-faculty relationships in the recent past.” The faculty member’s contribution “shall be one of educational importance, relevant to the central purpose of the University.” Such wonderful news! Please find the...
Nov. 03, 2022 – Dr. Laura Novick and graduate student Joanna (Jingyi) Liu published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied highlighting the importance of intentionally and thoughtfully designed figures to explain evolutionary relationships and overcome preconceived misconceptions. This research was featured in Evolution@Vanderbilt! Congratulations!
Oct. 16, 2022 – Dr. David Lubinski earned the 2022 Gifted Child Quarterly Paper of the Year Award! This award was given for an article entitled “Intellectual precocity: What have we learned since Terman?” co-authored by Dean Camilla Benbow. This article documents 8 robust empirical generalizations on what has been learned about intellectual precocity over the past 50 years. Learn more here (article in...
Jul. 25, 2022 – Kathryn Humphreys has been recognized with the 2023 Boyd McCandless Award by the American Psychological Association’s Division 7 (Developmental Psychology). The award “recognizes a young scientist who has made a distinguished theoretical contribution to developmental psychology, has conducted programmatic research of distinction, or has made a distinguished contribution to the dissemination of developmental science.” so well deserved! Congratulations, Kate!
Feb. 20, 2022 – David Lubinski earned the Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2021 from the American Educational Research Association (AERA)! David’s service to the field will be recognized by the AERA Journal Publications Committee at AERA’s 2022 Annual Meeting in San Diego. Please join in congratulating David!