Our Spring 2019 Colloquium Series will feature Drs. Amalia Gnanadesikan (UMD), Tom Griffiths (Princeton), Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois), Kathryn Davidson (Harvard), Ellen Lau (UMD), Melvyn Goodale (Western University), and Thomas Serre (Brown). Talk titles and abstracts will be posted to our event page at least 1 week in advance of each presentation.

Dr. Barbara Landau was recently named a Gilman Scholar, a distinction that honors and celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university.

We welcome Dr. Michel Bonner as our newest assistant professor. Until recently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at UPenn. Mick will start January 1st. Welcome to the team, Mick!

The JHU News-Letter featured Prof. Tal Linzen in this week’s Lab Spotlight. Check it out!

PhD student Jane Lutken received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award to pursue her research project on “Cross-Linguistic Investigations of Syntactic Creativity Errors in Children’s Wh-questions” in Germany next year. Brava, Jane!

Join us in welcoming six new graduate students joining our department this fall. They come from a variety of backgrounds and from all corners of the globe. We can’t wait to start working with them! Click the above link for their profiles.

Rebecca Lin is the lead author on an article entitled “Visualized Emotion Ontology: a model for representing visual cues of emotions,” which was recently published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making! Rebecca is a cognitive science major entering her junior year.

Drs. Michael Bonner and Leyla Isik will join our department on January 1 and July 1, 2019, respectively. They are recruiting PhD students to begin working in their labs in Fall 2019. Applications will be accepted Sept. 2018 through Dec 15, 2018. Click on the link above for details.

Assistant research scientist Dr. Jeremy Purcell accepted a position as a Faculty Specialist at the UMd Neuroimaging Center, starting in August. Congrats, Jeremy!

Join us in welcoming Prof. Géraldine Legendre in her new role as Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science!