Assistant Professor Liane Young has been awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, joining Sara Cordes, who is also a Sloan Fellow. More on the Sloan award, which was also won this year by three other faculty at BC (in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics). As the Boston College announcement states, "It is unprecedented for a university of our size, without a medical or engineering school, to receive four Sloan Research Fellowships in one year," said Provost and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza. "This recognition is a testament to the caliber of researchers Boston College has hired in recent years." With four awards, BC led Massachusetts colleges and universities, which were awarded a total of 14 Sloan Research Fellowships, followed by Boston University (3), Harvard (3), MIT (3) and UMass Amherst (1).

Professor Ellen Winner was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Assistant Professor 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.