| Announcements
Welcome to Ben and Jen Storm who will be moving from UCLA to
UIC for Fall 2008. Ben will join the Cognitive Division as a new tenure-track
faculty member. His interests are in memory and attention. More info
about Ben can be found at his current website: http://storm.bol.ucla.edu/
Congratulations to Real Canty and Pat Cushen who will present
their work at the 2008 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
in Washington DC late this summer.
Congratulations to Jason Braasch and Jordan Lippman who will
be presenting their work at ICLS this summer in the Netherlands.
In addition, Jordan was accepted to attend the Doctoral Consortium Preconference
Workshop.
Congratulations to Jason Braasch, Joanna Bovee, Frances Daniel, and
Jordan Lippman who will be presenting their work at the Annual Meeting
of the Society for Text & Discourse in Memphis this summer.
Congratulations to Jason Braasch, Greg Colflesh, Patrick Cushen,
and Travis Ricks who are representing UIC at the 2008 Meeting
of the Association for Psychological Science in late May.
Congratulations to Joanna Bovee, Patrick Cushen, Frances Daniel
and Scott Hinze who represented us well with their presentations
at the 2008 Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association
in May.
Congratulations to Greg Colflesh who was awarded the 2008
Piorkowski Award
for his collegiality and scholarship. The Piorkowski
Award is given annually to a student in Behavioral Neuroscience or Cognition
who displays creativity, strength of character, and a love of people.
Congratulations to undergraduates Frances Amurao, Allison Jaeger,
Amy Newey and Kevin Noone who presented their Directed Research projects
at the 2008 Undergraduate Student Research Forum. This is
a great accomplishment for these students and their grad student mentors:
Frances Daniel, Jordan Lippman and Travis Ricks. In addition,
Frances A. won first and Allison won second in the social sciences competition!
Congratulations to undergraduates Frances K. Amurao (Advisor,
Dr. Jim Pellegrino) and Tom Vadakara (Advisor, Dr. Gary Raney) who
received Nancy Hirschberg Memorial Grants for Undergraduate Research
this Spring.
Congratulations to Jason Braasch who presented at AERA this
Spring.
Congratulations to Leah Rubin and her co-authors Katie Witkiewitz,
Justin St. Andre and Steve Reilly who have received the 2007 Journal
of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education Editor's Choice Award for their
paper "Methods for handling missing data in the behavioral neurosciences"
which was judged the the best article to appear in the journal in the non-laboratory
submission category.
Congratulations to Greg Colflesh who was awarded a 2007-8 APA
Dissertation Award and a Provost's Award to support his
dissertation work on alcohol and attentional control.
Congratulations to Leah Rubin, who was awarded a F31 Ruth L.
Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institute
of Mental Health (NIMH) for her project entitled, “Effects of Estrogen
on Cognition in Schizophrenia.” This NIH grant will support Leah’s
predoctoral training and dissertation project for the next two years.
Congratulations to Joanna Bovee, Greg Colflesh, Frances Daniel, Ben
Jee and Travis Ricks who presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society in Long Beach, California.
Congratulations to UIC PhD Alumni Mike Bunting who is the recipient
of the 2006 Young Investigator Award for the best paper authored
by a young investigator last year in Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition. The winning paper is based on
his dissertation from UIC.
Faculty Notes
Congratulations to Jennifer Wiley who has been awarded an Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship which are granted to highly qualified
foreign scientists and scholars for a long-term research stay in Germany.
Dr. Wiley will continue her research on Collaborative Problem Solving in
Germany next year, with visits to Max Planck in Berlin and Ludwig Maximillian
University in Munich.
Congratulations to Susan Goldman and Jim Pellegrino who have
been recognized as LAS Distinguished Professors by the University.
Congratulations to Jim Pellegrino who has been elected to the
National
Academy of Education. The academy consists of a maximum of 200
U.S. members and up to 25 foreign associates who are elected on the basis
of outstanding scholarship or contributions to education.
Congratulations to Stellan Ohlsson was awarded with a 2006-7
Silver Circle Teaching Award and the Graduate Mentoring Prize in
2007-8.
Recently Funded Grants:
Goldman (with Lawless, Education), IES, Assessing Readers Struggling
to Comprehend Multiple Sources of Information (Aug 05)
Griffin & Wiley (with Thiede, Boise State), IES, Improving Metacomprehension
and Self-Regulated Learning From Scientific Texts
(Aug 07)
Pellegrino & Goldman, NSF, Evaluation of the Cognitive, Psychometric,
and Instructional Affordances of Curriculum-Embedded Assessments: A Comprehensive
Validity-Based Approach (Jan 08)
Pellegrino, NSF, From Research to Practice: Redesigning AP Science Courses
to Advance Science Literacy and Support Learning with Understanding (July
06)
Wiley (with Moher, Computer Science), NSF, Supporting whole-class science
investigations with spatial simulations (Jan 08)
Wiley (with Jon Kassel, Clinical), IHRP Seed Grants, Effects of Alcohol
on Attention (Aug 07)
Conference Locations, Dates and Deadlines:
AERA,
San Diego, CA April 13-14, 2009
DEADLINE Aug 1, 2008
APS,
Chicago, May 22-25, 2008
DEADLINE Jan 31, 2008
Cognitive Science,
Washington DC, July 23-6, 2008
DEADLINE Feb 1, 2008
CSCL/ICLS,
Utrecht, Netherlands, 2008
DEADLINE
MPA,
Chicago, April 30 - May 2, 2009
DEADLINE Nov 1, 2008
Psychonomics, Chicago,
IL November 13-16, 2008
DEADLINE, June 2008
Society for Text
& Discourse, Memphis, July 11-15, 2008
DEADLINE Feb 1, 2008
Current Graduate Requirements and Policies:
Current Course Requirements, 2005
and after
Current Prelim Process Policy Statement 12/1/03
Current PhD Process Policy Statement 12/1/03
last updated may 13, 2008 jw |
