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Lap-Ching Keung wins Katz Award at CUNY

April 20, 2017

​Lap-Ching Keung was just awarded the Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award at the 2017 CUNY Conference at MIT. The award “recognizes the paper or poster presented at the Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing that best exhibits the qualities of intellectual rigor, creativity, and independence of thought exemplified in Professor Katz’s life and work.”

Lap received the award for his paper, co-authored with Adrian Staub, “Closest conjunct agreement in English: A comparison with number attraction,” presented at the 2016 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the University of Florida. The paper presents evidence from both production studies and eyetracking during reading that agreement with a conjoined subject (e.g., The dog and the cat…) is not reliably plural when the second conjunct is singular.

Congratulations Lap!!

Professor Nilanjana Dasgupta Wins Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award

April 18, 2017

​Nilanjana Dasgupta, professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and director of CNS faculty equity and inclusion, has won the 2016 Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Dasgupta was recognized for her “groundbreaking research” that examines unconscious or implicit bias, with specific focus on the plasticity of implicit bias, for example, “the ways in which variations in social contexts cast imprints on the mind to influence the self-concept, attitudes, beliefs and behavior toward others.”

PBS graduate students Fiona Ge and Sarah Winokur receive 2016 Fall Travel Awards from the Center for Research on Families

April 14, 2017

Two CNS graduate students, Fiona Ge, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Sarah Winokur, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, have received 2016 Fall Travel Awards from the Center for Research on Families. Ge’s research broadly focuses on psychosocial factors that contribute to well-functioning romantic relationship processes. She will attend the 18th Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in San Antonio, CA with the help of her travel award. Winokur studies the neurobiology underlying parental behavior across the postpartum period. She will use the award to travel to The Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego, California. CRF News Release

Joonkoo Park receives CAREER award to explore how our brains process numbers and magnitude

April 14, 2017

Assistant Professor and Honors Faculty Joonkoo Park, Psychological and Brain Sciences, received a five-year, $751,000 NSF faculty early career development (CAREER) to address basic research questions about how our brains process numbers and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking. He recently co-authored a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reports where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed. Science magazine, NewsMedical.net, Science Daily, News Office release

Professor Emeritus Jerrold Meyer proposes less invasive diagnostic test for Cushing’s Syndrome

April 14, 2017

Neuroscientist Jerrold Meyer, Psychological and Brain Sciences, is co-author of a recent paper in Endocrine: International Journal of Basic and Clinical Endocrinology that describes a promising new noninvasive method – measuring levels of the hormone cortisol in hair samples – of testing for Cushing’s syndrome, a disorder of excessive cortisol secretion. Meyer, whose lab conducted all cortisol measurements used in the study, collaborated with endocrinologists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Though other researchers have explored using cortisol in hair samples to study patients with Cushing’s syndrome, the authors believe theirs is the first study to correlate serum and urinary cortisol levels with the hair assay to validate it as a new diagnostic tool. News Office release

Agnes Lacreuse selected as section member at the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health

April 12, 2017

Congratulations to Agnes Lacreuse PhD who has been selected for a 4-year term as a member of the Neuroendocrinology, Neuroimmunology, Rhythms and Sleep Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health! She will be contributing to the national biomedical research effort through grant application reviews, recommendations and status surveys of field research. This honorable position is representative of Dr. Lacreuse’s accomplishments in her field of study.   

Jeff Starns selected as CRF Family Research Scholar

March 1, 2017

Jeff Starns, associate professor in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, has been selected as a 2017-18 Center for Research on Families (CRF) Family Research Scholar.  Jeff will develop a grant proposal on Bayesian reasoning as a life skill.  Congratulations Jeff!

Christina Metevier selected for CNS Outstanding Advisor Award

February 24, 2017

We are excited to announce that Professor Christina Metevier has been selected as this year’s recipient of the CNS Outstanding Advisor Award for her exceptional contributions to undergraduate advising in PBS.  Students who have worked with Professor Metevier in the advising office and the classroom know firsthand that this recognition is very well-deserved given her endless enthusiasm, knowledge, and dedication to student success.  Congratulations Christina!

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