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Michael Kahana named the 2018 recipient of the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society for Experimental Psychologists

March 13, 2018

Mike Kahana was named the 2018 recipient of the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society for Experimental Psychologists, "for his fundamental contributions to the formal modeling of retrieved context information in memory and his remarkable discoveries in the human neuroscience of memory."

The Warren medal recognizes the most significant advances in experimental psychology over the prior five years. Mike joins a group of Warren Medal Awardees that reads like a who’s who list of experimental psychologists, from Skinner, Hull, Hebb,...

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Allyson Mackey and Anna Jenkins were named a 2017 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star

January 2, 2018

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named Dr. Allyson Mackey and Dr. Adrianna Jenkins as a 2017 APS Rising Star. The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.

The full list of rising stars is found here: http://www....

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Martin E.P. Seligman receives APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology

October 17, 2017

Dr. Marty Seligman was awarded American Psychological Association for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology during APA's 2017 Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.

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Thrashed by Hurricane Maria, Monkey Island Tries to Rebuild, Bolstered by Support From Scientific Community

October 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and other international universities are working to save an invaluable scientific resource badly damaged during Hurricane Maria: a population of rhesus macaques living on a remote island, as well as the staff and facilities that support them. For more information, please visit ...

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Coren Apicella has received the 2017 Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution

June 19, 2017

This award recognizes excellent young scientists who have made distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the study of evolution and human behavior. For more information, please visit http://www.hbes.com/

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Dianne Chambless is the 2017 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies

June 16, 2017

Dianne Chambless, Professor & Director of Clinical Training Program was selected as a 2017 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies. The ABCT awards program recognizes and salutes individuals for their contributions to the field of behavioral and cognitive therapy and the institutions that have helped to train many of these very people.

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Robert Seyfarth was elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2017

Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.

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Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock: Schelling Awards

April 19, 2017

Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock have been awarded the 2017 Thomas C. Schelling Award by Harvard University's Kennedy School.

The award recognizes individuals whose "remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy."

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Caitlin Clements has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship

April 5, 2017

Caitlin Clements has been awarded a US Fulbright student grant to conduct research in Sweden. She will work with Dr. Mikael Landen at the Karolinska Institute to study genetic predictors of treatment response in individuals with depression.

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Harvey Grill is a recipient of the Thomas A. Wadden Award for Distinguished Mentorship from the Obesity Society

October 10, 2016

The Thomas A. Wadden Award for Distinguished Mentorship honors a mid-career or senior TOS member for distinguished mentorship of the Society's members who were in their early careers at the time of the mentoring relationship. The award is named for Professor Thomas Wadden, PhD, of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who for more than 30 years has mentored dozens of scientist-practitioners who have pursued successful careers in obesity research and clinical care. The award was created in 2015 with a generous endowment from multiple contributors, comprised...

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