Join us in congratulating fifth-year PhD student Najoung Kim for receiving an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Linguistics! Najoung’s dissertation, entitled “Compositional Linguistic Generalization in Human and Machine Learning,” will investigate generalization […]
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Two Cognitive Science Majors Receive PURAs
Carol Lu and Shreya Wadhwa are among the selected undergraduates to receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards to support their independent research in the coming year! Carol will be mentored by Dr. Marina Bedny […]
Best Student Paper Award
Kyriaki Neophytou received the Best Student Paper Award for “A tool for automatic scoring of spelling” at the Academy of Aphasia conference. Congrats, Kyriaki!
Graduate Spotlight: Najoung Kim
“This summer, I interned with Deepak Ramachandran and Ellie Pavlick at Google Research on improving Question Answering (QA) systems, and will be continuing to work on this project part-time as […]
Undergraduate Spotlight: Carol Lu
“This summer, I am working with Liane Young at the Boston College Morality Lab studying prosocial behavior and decision-making with postdoctoral fellow Gordon Kraft-Todd. Our project focuses on virtue discounting in the context of economic games. […]”
CogSci Class of 2020 Has Creative Graduation
Click here to see videos and photos from our event!
Summer 2020 PhD: Pang Chaisilprungraung
We congratulate Pang Chaisilprungraung on successfully passing her doctoral defense. Pang is headed next to a postdoc research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Brava, Pang! Her […]
2020 Excellence in Cognitive Science Award
Kiley McKee has received this year’s excellence award! Each spring, our faculty members choose a graduating cognitive science major with the strongest combination of academic excellence and outstanding accomplishments in research. Congratulations, Kiley! […]
Congratulations to the 2020 Doctoral Degree Recipients!
Congratulations Drs. Karen Clothier and Emory Davis. We’re so proud of you. See their advisors, Drs. Barbara Landau and Kyle Rawlins, join faculty across the University in this tribute to our 2020 PhD graduates.
Science of Learning Fellowship
PhD student An Nguyen was awarded a Science of Learning Fellowship for 2020-21 in recognition of her interdisciplinary research and high level of performance in our program. […]