Suzie Dukic seeks MS
Tom James wins Randolph Blake Award
Isabel Gauthier wins Troland Research Award
Suzie Dukic seeks MS
Suzie Dukic, coordinator for the Perceptual Expertise Network since 2003, will begin a Masters of Science in Professional Counseling at Lipscomb University in August 2008. Congratulations Suzie!
Tom James wins Randolph Blake Early Career Award
We are please to announce Tom James (PEN alum) as the 2008 winner of the Randolph Blake Early Career Award.
The program in Psychological Sciences established this award to recognize exemplary alumni of our program in the early stages of their career. The nominee must have been an honors student, a graduate student, or a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology or the Department of Psychology and Human Development. Nominees must be within the first five years of appointment in their first faculty position. The winner was decided by a committee of faculty from both departments.
Tom James was a postdoctoral fellow with Isabel Gauthier from 2001-2004. He is currently on the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor. Tom's research has used a combination of functional brain imaging and behavioral experiments to tackle a number of basic problems in visual cognition, such as visual priming, multimodal and semantic interactions on vision, and classical issues of viewpoint selectivity. Tom has published 22 peer-reviewed articles, most of them first-authored, in top journals such as Neuron, Psychological Science, and Neuropsychologia.
Isabel Gauthier wins National Academy of Sciences Award
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced that Isabel Gauthier is a recipient of the Troland Research Award for 2008. The NAS describes the Troland Research Award as: "Two awards, each given to young investigators (age 40 or younger) to recognize unusual achievement and further empirical research in psychology regarding the relationships of consciousness and the physical world.