Isabel’s 100th paper just got accepted! (thanks guys!)
McGugin, R.W., Van Gulick, A.E., Tamber-Rosenau, B.J., Ross, D.A. & Gauthier, I. (in press). Expertise effects in face selective areas are robust to clutter and diverted attention but not to competition. Cerebral Cortex.
David and Kao both made it to the 25th wave of invaders in 8 minutes!
In collaboration with Andy Tomarken, Isabel and Jenn have received funding from NIH to study Individual differences in face and object recognition
– William Yue successfully defended his honors thesis
– Ana Beth successfully defended her thesis proposal
– Katie had a great first year meeting
– Kao made a fuss about being nervous and gave a great talk without even blinking
– Katie saw her undergraduate work published (yay, first paper!)
– Jackie saw her undergraduate work appear in print (hmm, we are not superstitious but still)
– Ana Beth made a wonderful honey cake for Isabel’s birthday
– APA approved a proposal that makes Jenn the new editor of “APA PeePs” (or at least that’s what I am calling her)
– Magen and Isabel are about to crush David in a looooong chess game
– Kao and David wrote their first grant proposal on Isabel’s dry-erase board
– Rankin figured out yet again how to make BV do the impossible
Thanks to Magen and her helpful workshop organizers, Pen 26 was a great success!
Jonathan Folstein, who did his post doc at Vandy with Isabel and Tom Palmeri, just accepted an assistant professor position at Florida State University!
Wonderful news: Kao Chua gets awarded a NSF graduate fellowship for his research on holistic processing!
Hurray, we’re real proud of you Kao, as we are of Katie Ryan, who got an honorable mention for her own proposal.
We are excited about the arrival of William Applegarth McGugin Jr.!!