Conor Smithson wins Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery AwardConor Smithson wins!

Mar 062025
 

Congratulations to Conor Smithson for winning the  Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Award! This premier award from the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship.

Conor won it based on his outstanding publication in Annual Review of Psychology. Annual Review in Psychology holds the #1 ranking in both “Psychology (Science)” and “Psychology, Multidisciplinary (Social Science)” categories, with a 2023 impact factor of 23.6. Notably, this article is an expansion of the written portion of his Qualifying exam (MAP).

Smithson, C., Gauthier, I. (2026). Is domain-general object recognition ability a novel construct? Annual Review of Psychology, invited review.

Melina Mueller receives VSS travel grant!

Mar 062025
 

National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist Travel Grant in the amount of $500 to help support the costs of attending the 2025 Vision Sciences Society Meeting, to present her poster “The Effect of Color Filters on Food Recognition depends on Food Neophobia and Food Disgust”.