PsychologyThis award is given to assistant professors who show unusual promise as teachers/scholars.
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April 4, 2016
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April 4, 2016
The Lindback Award is the highest teaching honor that the University bestows upon our faculty. The Lindback dossier contains letters from faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students who speak to the Dan's commitment to distinguished teaching across a wide range of settings, from direction and mentorship of graduate students to his special talent with the largest class in the College, PSYC001. Dan is just the third Lindback Award recipient in Psychology since the award was established in 1961.
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April 4, 2016
The primary criteria for the Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring are a record of successful doctoral student mentoring and placement, success in collaborating on doctoral committees and graduate groups, and distinguished research. It was a pleasure to read the many letters of support speaking to Dianne’s accomplishments on all of these points.
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March 3, 2016
Penn's David Dinges Receives Pioneer Award for Research Contributions to Space Biomedical Community from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.
For more information, please visit http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2016/02/dinges/
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November 4, 2015
Dr. Daniel Rizzuto, who is a Project Director at Penn's Computational Memory Lab (http://memory.psych.upenn.edu/Main_Page), is the recipient of Neurotech Reports’ 2015 Neurotechnology Researcher of the Year Award.
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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.
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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...
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June 25, 2015
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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...
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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...