October 21, 2015
Xuexin Wei, co-advised by Prof. Vijay Balasubramanian and Prof. Alan Stocker of Psychology, has won the Louis B. Flexner Award for Outstanding Thesis Work in the Neurosciences. Students in any graduate group at Penn who did their Ph.D. on a neuroscience related topic in any lab across the University are eligible for the Flexner Award, sponsored by the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences.
Xuesin is currently a postdoc fellow for Prof. Stocker.
October 21, 2015
Michael Platt's graduate student, Seth Madlon-Kay's work on monkey island was featured on Spectrum. For more information, please go to https://spectrumnews.org/news/on-monkey-island-some-animals-carry-autism...
June 25, 2015
May 1, 2015
The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,250 and the total number of foreign associates to 452. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States
Related information available at http://www.nasonline.org...
May 1, 2015
Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching: The Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching for Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences seeks to recognize teaching that is intellectually rigorous and exceptionally coherent and that leads to an informed understanding of a discipline. Recipients of the Ira Abrams Memorial Award are expected to embody high standards of integrity and fairness, to have a strong commitment to learning, and to be open to new ideas. As the School of Arts and Sciences' highest teaching honor, the Abrams Award recognizes faculty who have...
May 1, 2015
The opening of the call for nominations for these awards reads, “ 'Distinguished teaching' is teaching that is intellectually demanding, unusually coherent, and permanent in its effect. The distinguished teacher has the capability of changing the way in which students view the subject they are studying. The distinguished teacher provides the basis for students to look with critical and informed perception at the fundamentals of a discipline, and s/he relates that discipline to other disciplines and to the worldview of the student. The distinguished teacher is accessible to students and...
February 3, 2015
Penn Medicine’s department of ophthalmology has been awarded a $115,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases. In addition, David Brainard, the RRL Professor of Psychology and director of the Vision Research Center and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded a $300,000 Research to Prevent Blindness Stein Innovation Award.
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November 13, 2014
Anna's life began to unravel in 2005 when her husband of 30 years announced that he had fallen in love with another woman. “It had never even occurred to me that my marriage could ever end,” recalls Anna, a retired lawyer then living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “It was pretty shocking.”
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October 1, 2014
The TANG Prize for Achievements in Psychology honors a living internationally-recognized scholar in Psychology or a closely-related field who have shown creativity, and rigor in their approach and whose record of achievement has left an indelible mark on the field. The TANG Foundation is a private institution established by Dr. Fay Tang in 2006, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The objective of the TANG foundation is to raise awareness of the importance of psychological health in the world. The fundamental aim of the TANG Award for Achievements in Psychology is to carry on the family...
September 29, 2014
This award recognizes significant early career contributions to understanding the neural basis of decision making or the impact of this knowledge on formal understanding of decision behavior.
More information is available on the the society's website, www.neuroeconomics.org
Psychology