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The British Academy is a fellowship of around 1,400 leading national and international academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, the British Academy elects to its Fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication. Others based overseas can also be elected as Corresponding Fellows, and, in addition, the Academy can elect Honorary Fellows.

The Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award, new to this year, is given for exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career. The purpose is to raise the visibility of our science and of our very best mid-career scientists within the field, within the awardees’ institutions, in the press, and in the larger community.

For more information, please visit http://www.pnas.org/content/115/15/3735

Professor Martin Seligman received a Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa from the University of Buckingham. It is his seventh honorary doctorate. For more information, please visit https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/latest-news/buckingham-honours-professor-m…

This award is granted to a faculty member whose teaching is intellectually demanding, who inspires excellence in research, and who demonstrates a strong and consistent commitment to graduate student mentorship.

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 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. 

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

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.