Shiffrin awarded for excellence

Professor Richard Shiffrin recently won the 2009 Henry R. Besch, Jr. Promotion of Excellence Award from the Indiana University Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors. The award recognizes outstanding service at Indiana University.

One of Shiffrin's many service contributions to IU includes being the founding co-director of the Alliance. Additional local services include being founding director of the Cognitive Science Program and charing the committee to form a School of Informatics (now called Informatics and Computing) at Indiana University.