Department faculty, staff and students joined the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana November 20 to teach young girls how to be "brain scientists." Psychological and Brain Science was featured on this year's patch for Brownie Math & Science Day. Special thanks to all of our volunteers for making this event a success.
News from the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
Monday, November 29, 2010
A new generation of women in science
Department faculty, staff and students joined the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana November 20 to teach young girls how to be "brain scientists." Psychological and Brain Science was featured on this year's patch for Brownie Math & Science Day. Special thanks to all of our volunteers for making this event a success.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Olaf Sporns to be featured on Big Ten Program
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
How handwriting trains the brain
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Strangers influence our dating preferences
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Graduate student summer research awards
- Lile Jia: Gordon Kato Summer Fellowship
- Katie Van Loo: Steinmetz Summer Research Award
- Trista Chan: Richard D. Young Summer Research Award
- Isaac Peterson: Richard D. Young Summer Research Award
- Francisco Parada: McFall Summer Research Award
- Michael Endres: Heller Summer Research Award
Monday, May 10, 2010
Congratulations, class of 2010!
- Natsuki Atagi: Cheryl Burnham Buhler Award, Excellence in Honors Thesis Research Award. Natsuki was also chosen as one of the first undergraduate speakers at the 2010 commencement ceremony.
- Sabrina Yufang Sun: J.R. Kantor Prize in Psychology
- Jennifer Long: James Dinsmoor Excellence in Research Award
- Nicole Beckage: Excellence in Research Award
- Gabriela Rodriguez: Excellence in Research Award
- Roxana Ortez: Excellence in Research Award
- Ryan Stadnik: Excellence in Research Award and Robert Weiskopf Award
- Ross VanDerKlok: Excellence in Research Award
- Sarah Myers: Robert Weiskopf Award
- Kaitlin King: Psi Chi Scholarship
- Lukasz Cerbin: Tracy C. Owens, M.D., and Anna L. Sproull Owens Memorial Scholarship, Fernandus & Elizabeth J. Payne Scholarship
- Christian Frye: Sally Kissinger Wilt Merit Scholarship
- Laura Strodtman: Jeanice Bartling Lewis Memorial Scholarship
Friday, March 5, 2010
Building a vision of brain networks
Thursday, February 4, 2010
LexisNexis internship info session rescheduled
Dr. Rich Miller is part of the LexisNexis Applied Research Group, which includes expertise in computational linguistics, information retrieval and software development. His role in the group is monitoring technology areas encompassing analytics and visualization, rich media, personalization, mobile computing, user experience design and human-computer interaction. Miller has a degree in experimental psychology from Miami University.
In a special session for psychology and neuroscience majors, Miller will discuss internship opportunities at LexisNexis. Undergraduate and graduate students with experience in computer programming and research interests in natural language programming, text analytics should attend to hear more about this opportunity.
LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of business information solutions to in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, and government practices, law enforcement, accounting, and compliance assessment. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis helps customers in more than 100 countries and has 13,000 employees.
Dr. David Pfenninger will introduce Dr. Miller and provide his own insights about internship opportunities. Pfenninger serves on advisory councils for both the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Department of Informatics and Computing. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from our department in 1983.
A clinical psychologist, Pfenninger also has founded two companies: Performance Assessment Network (www.panpowered.com), the largest Web-based testing company in the United States, and BubbleUp (www.bubbleup.com), a technology leader in the entertainment industry that makes extensive use of social networking techniques. In his roles as corporate CEO, entrepreneur and board of directors' member, Pfenninger has utilized internships as a solid way to get fresh thinking and talent into his firms.
To ensure you will have a spot in this session, please e-mail Jenny at porterjl@indiana.edu by 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 9.