Department of Psychology
college of arts and sciences
research news
The Psychology Department welcomes Dr. Hao Wu to the department. Dr Wu, who specializes in the evaluation of statistical models in psychology, will join the quantitative area of the department as an Assistant Professor in September 2012.
Assistant Professor Liane Young joins the editorial board of Psychological Science in January, 2012.
Professor Ellen Winner was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Liane Young has been awarded a three-year grant from the Dana Foundation to study the cognitive and neural basis of atypical social and moral cognition in high functioning autism. She was also selected as a Dana Neuroscience Scholar, which provides her with additional funding for this project.
Assistant Professor Sara Cordes received an NSF CAREER award entitled "CAREER: Understanding and Facilitating Numerical Discriminations in Infancy," which will support her research from 2011 to 2016.
Events
FEBRUARY 20
Frances Champagne
(Columbia University) Colloquium.
McGuinn 334,
3:30 pm
MARCH 19
Doug Medin
(Northwestern University) Colloquium.
McGuinn 334,
3:30 pm
MAY 4
Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference
McGuinn 521,
3:00 pm
Research in focus
Sara Cordes, assistant professor of psychology and principal investigator of the Infant and Child Cognition Lab, discusses some of the more than 20 research studies currently being conducted in the lab.