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Ronak Shah Receives an Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior Award
Congratulations to graduating senior Ronak Shah, who was awarded an Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior Award. These awards, established by Elvis J. Stahr, 12th president of Indiana University, are based on scholarship, leadership, personality and service.
Dr. Robert Nosofsky wins the 2012 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Nosofsky, winner of the 2012 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists for "his singular achievement in developing and testing exemplar models of cognition, with particular focus on the critical importance of psychological similarity and attention."
Dr. Jerome Busemeyer Named a Provost Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Jerome Busemeyer who has been named a Provost Professor.
Kate Sanders Wins Provost’s Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
Kate Sanders, with support from Professor Peter Todd, was selected as a recipient of a 2012 Provost’s Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Congratulations, Kate!  
Professor Michael Jones Wins Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Congratulations to Professor Michael Jones, winner of a prestigious Outstanding Junior Faculty Award!
Professors Colin Allen and Katy Börner Win Grant to Explore 'Big Data'
A team of researchers, including principal investigators Professors Colin Allen and Katy Börner, have won a grant to "demonstrate how large-scale data repositories with millions of books can change the nature of research for the humanities and social sciences. Their 'Digging by Debating' project combines the power of 'scientometrics' with the interpretative strategies of the humanities to tackle the particularly challenging issue of understanding the boundary between science and philosophy." Read more in the IU press release.
Visiting Undergraduate Research Applications Available
The IU Cognitive Science Program invites upper-level undergraduate students not enrolled at IU Bloomington and students who are graduating from colleges other than IU Bloomington to apply to the Cognitive Science Visiting Undergraduate Program.
Professor Katy Börner Receives Fellow Distinction from AAAS
Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Professor Katy Börner, has been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science "[f]or pioneering work on network science infrastructure development, the scientific analysis, modeling, and visualization of science itself, and curatorship of the international 'Places & Spaces: Mapping Science' exhibit." See the IU news release. Congratulations Professor Börner!

Cognitive Scientists in the News
Professor Olaf Sporns and the Human Connectome Project
Read about Professor Olaf Sporns and the Human Connectome Project in the Guardian article Quest for the connectome: scientists investigate ways of mapping the brain.
Professor Colin Allen in the NY Times Opinionator
"Many think the idea of ethically sensitive machines is a kind of techno-utopian joke. But we are already moving in that direction." Intrigued? Read Professor Colin Allen piece on "The Future of Moral Machines" in the NY Times Opinionator.
Professors Bollen and Sporns in the News
An article mentioning Professor Johan Bollen and an article mentioning Professor Olaf Sporns appear in the "The World in 2012", a special issue of The Economist.
Alejandra Rossi's DogCam
DogCam, a device designed by researchers including I.U. cognitive science graduate student Alejandra Rossi, is featured in the December 9th issue of Science magazine. Rossi plans to use DogCam to understand the visual dynamics of dog-human social interactions. Read more and see a picture here.
Study: A rich club in the human brain
Read the IU news release about Olaf Sporns' recent work on 'Rich Clubs' within the human brain.

Festschrift Honors Professor Richard M. Shiffrin

Rich Shiffrin
Founder of the I.U. Cognitive Science Program, Richard M. Shiffrin, was honored recently at a symposium to recognize his many and varied contributions. For over 40 years, the Luther Dana Waterman Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences has been a key figure in the field of Cognitive Science, making fundamental contributions in diverse areas of attention, perception, and memory. At this Festschrift symposium in his honor, colleagues and collaborators paid tribute to his celebrated career and highlighted the substantial contributions that he has made.

IGERT Doctoral Training Program

The Indiana University Cognitive Science Program is home to the NSF IGERT doctoral training program in the dynamics of brain-body-environment systems in behavior and cognition. Trainees receive extensive support and funding for their doctoral studies at IU.


News from Recently Graduated Undergraduates

Alex Nay is currently working in Dr. Ken Mackie's lab on IU's campus assisting with research using mice models. More

Nicole Beckage is in the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science at UC-Irvine ... More

Ravi Bhatt, Jim Brink, Stephen Hockema, Jun Luo: Aji

Tarun Gangwani writes that the IU cognitive science program let him discover ... More

Kelly Gordon graduated in 2010 and spent the last year in an accelerated ... More

Jaimie Murdock writes that since graduating in December 2010, he has accepted ... More

Brian Slattery writes that after he graduated in 2010, he started working on a Ph.D. in ... More


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