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On June 1, 2011, the University of Haifa conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa, upon Professor Mary Main, at the opening of the 39th meeting of the Board of Governors. Professor Avi Sagi-Schwartz, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, accepted the degree on behalf of Professor Main, who was unable to be present at the ceremony. The honor was bestowed on Professor Main as a "world renowned scholar of child development" and "in recognition of her academic excellence and breakthrough achievements in research that provide us with a better understanding of the development of every individual and their attachment with their parents from childhood; for her conceptual and non-consensus pioneering and her exceptional intellectual aptitude; her persistence and investment in academic collaborations that cross national boundaries--which are critical to academic knowlege; and for her contribution to new generations of scholars in the academic world." This is Main's third honorary doctorate. [Read more]
Josh Eng, a graduate student in the Social/Personality Program, has been awarded a prestigious UC Berkeley Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2011-12. [Read more]
Psychology student Polly Chen has been awarded the 2011 American Cultures Student Research Prize.
Tania Lombrozo has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award, entitled "Understanding the Role of Explanation in Cognition." [Read more]
Thomas Griffiths is a recipient of the Association for Psychological Science's 2011 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. [Read more]
Tania Lombrozo is the recipient of a 2011 Humanities Research Fellowship.
Allison Harvey has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Örebro University in Sweden. [Read more]
Sonia Bishop has received, along with eleven other investigators, a prestigious NIMH Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS). The award will provide funding for her research investigating neurocognitive mechanisms of trait vulnerability to human anxiety. [Read more]
Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Keppel, a scholar of human memory, former Department Chair, and beloved teacher, has died at 75. [Read more]
Charlan Nemeth was interviewed on the Canadian Broadcasting System public radio program "Spark," an audio blog about technology and culture [Read more]. Professor Nemeth's work is also discussed in a recent issue of Ode magazine [Read the article].
Allison Harvey was featured on the "Childhood Matters" radio program in a discussion about how sleep and healthy eating impact attention, memory, concentration and emotional resiliency [Read more]
Graduate student Paul Piff's research with Michael Kraus and Professor Dacher Keltner concerning the influence of social class on compassion and generosity was highlighted recently in The New York Times, The Economist, and on National Public Radio.
Tania Lombrozo has received the 2010 Stanton Prize, awarded by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Dacher Keltner is the recipient of the Social Psychology Network's 2010 Action Teaching Award for his entry of the Greater Good Science Center website.
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Emeritus Professor Donald A. Riley received the 2010 Comparative Cognition Society Research Award for outstanding contributions to the study of cognitive processes in animals.
Professor Jack Gallant's research is discussed in a
recent issue of Popular Science. [Read more]
Assistant Professor
Thomas Griffiths is the recipient of a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Assistant Professor Tania Lombrozo has received a
Mary C. Potter Award, awarded by Women in Cognitive Science.
Psychology graduate student Lisa Talbot received a 2010 Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Dissertation Grant Award, which recognizes excellence in dissertation research.
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Assistant Professor Tom Griffiths has won the Young Investigator Award of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, an elective honorary society founded by E.B. Titchener in 1904. The award also includes election to the Society.
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