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
September 17, 2014
Graduate Group member, Danielle Bassett receives the “genius grant” that goes to people of "extraordinary originality and dedication" - http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/class-2014/
September 4, 2014
Caitlin Clements' recent paper on the use of antidepressants during pregnancy and ADHD and autism in offspring has been cited in the Boston Globe, among other outlets.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/08/26/study-li...
August 21, 2014
I've always been fascinated by the creative process. That's to say, how something unique gets created from scratch. So today I'm in a recording studio in Chester PA, with my homie Kai "Franchise" Harris. He's the CEO of his own hip hop production company, Kpod Entertainment. Franchise notes, “I see people, diamonds in the rough, little bit of pressure, little bit of work, and it pays off, hopefully.”
November 20, 2013
WHAT do you do if, when you get to a subway platform, you see that it is already packed with people? Do you join the throngs to wait for the train, or do you shake your head and seek an alternative way to get where you’re going?
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October 30, 2013
September 25, 2013
The “genius grant” goes to people of "extraordinary originality and dedication" - http://www.macfound.org/fellows/889/
Psychology