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  • Michael Arcaro has been selected as an awardee for the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution in the areas of perception and motor performance. This award honors early career scientists who have advanced the psychology discipline with extraordinary scholarly accomplishments. For more information, please visit: https://www.apa.org

  • The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) has awarded Sudeep know the 2023 Early Career Impact Award. FABBS promotes human potential and well-being by advancing the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior; promoting scientific research and training in these fields; educating the public about the contributions of research to the health and well-being of individuals and society; fostering communication among scientists; and recognizing scientists who have made significant contributions to building knowledge.

  • Anna Schapiro has just been chosen to be given the 2023 Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s Young Investigator Award. The purpose of the Young Investigator Award is to recognize outstanding contributions by scientists early in their career. Two awardees are named by the Awards Committee, and are honored at the CNS Annual meeting.

  • The Society of Experimental Psychologists has awarded membership to Sudeep Bhatia. The SEP was founded by Titchener in 1904, receiving its current name in 1929. It was created as a way for research psychologists to convene to discuss methods and new discoveries.

  • The Society of Experimental Psychologists has awarded membership to David Brainard. The SEP was founded by Titchener in 1904, receiving its current name in 1929. It was created as a way for research psychologists to convene to discuss methods and new discoveries.  

  • The Research Corporation For Science Advancement has named Anna Schapiro a 2022 Scialog Fellow for Molecular Basis of Cognition! Scialog Fellows are early career scientists identified as rising stars in the area of the initiative’s theme.


    Scialog, short for Science + Dialog, is a unique framework for convening scientists with the goal of rapidly generating novel, high-risk basic science research ideas, catalyzing new collaborations among researchers, strengthening networks of early career scientists, and empowering private foundations and other funders to work together...

  • Allyson Mackey has been selected as an awardee for the IMBES Early Career Award! This award is designed to recognize early career scholars who have made significant, original research contributions to the field of Mind, Brain, and Education. For more information, please visit https://imbes.org/

  • The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy has named Becky Waller a recipiant of the 2022 Jevon S. Newman Early Career Contribution Award. The Early Career Contribution Award is given every two years to two recipients, and was created to recognize exceptional young scholars who have shown considerable promise and productivity in the formative years of their career and who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of psychopathy.  

  • Amber L. Alhadeff named the grand prize winner of The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.

    The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology acknowledges the increasingly active and important role of neurobiology in advancing our understanding of the functioning of the brain and the nervous system -- a quest that seems destined for dramatic expansion in the coming decades. This international prize, established in 2002, encourages the work of promising young neurobiologists by providing support in the early stages of their careers.

    It is awarded...

  •  Zach Cohen and Johannes Eichstaedt among list of most recent members to be named APS Rising Stars in February of 2022.

    The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Drawing its name from an Observer editorial series that featured exemplars of the exciting work being done by the field’s newest researchers, this designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already...