The Psychology Department is teaming with the other natural science departments to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in dynamical systems; this is the first in a planned cluster of hires
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor appointment in evolution, broadly interpreted. We are interested in exceptional scientists and mathematicians who have well-developed research programs employing mathematical or computational techniques to study the evolution of dynamical processes far from equilibrium in the context of any of the following: biology, chemistry, or materials from the molecular to the systems scale, language, geology, psychology, or the environment.
Robert Seyfarth has been elected to the 2012 class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Robert's field studies of nonhuman primates, specifically a troop of baboons in Botswana, have illuminated how primate relationships may reflect the evolutionary origins of social relationships, intelligence and language in humans. He will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 6, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making has announced that Jon Baron has been awarded the 2011 John Castellan Service Award
The John Castellan SJDM Service Award is named after the first Newsletter Editor of the society. It is given following special recommendation of the Executive Board and it honors individuals who have given significant service to the society. Click here for past awardees.
Psychology Department and Law School to offer joint JD/PhD beginning Fall 2012
JD/PhD Department of Psychology
Marc Coutanche awarded an International Student Research Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Marc Coutanche has been awarded an inaugural International Student Research Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For more information about this award, please click here.
John Trueswell and Lila Gleitman describe their research in the June 2011 edition of SAS Frontiers
In the June 2011 edition of SAS Frontiers, John Trueswell and Lila Gleitman describe their research using adults to mimic the language-learning process in infants in "Lending an Ear" by Blake Cole:
Christian Webb to receive the Leonard Krasner Dissertation Award
Christian Webb will receive the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy's Leonard Krasner Dissertation Award at the ABCT'S annual convention this year in Toronto.
Dr. Dianne Chambless to receive the Klaus-Grawe Award
The Klaus-Grawe-Award for the Advancement of Innovative Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy for 2011 will be awarded to Dr. Dianne Chambless on June 2, 2011. At the ceremony she will give a lecture on the topic of "Evidence Based Psychotherapy – boon or bane?".
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Dr. Angela Duckworth Named "Rising Star"
Dr. Angela Duckworth was named a "Rising Star" by the Association of Psychological Science.
For more information, read here.