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May 13, 2013
Congratulations to Dayuma Vargas Lascano who recently won a Graduate Student Teaching Award and Jeff Schimel who won an Undergraduate Teaching Award.
May 08, 2013
Congratulations to Michelle Chan, who was awarded the Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship and also to Tara Whitten, who was awarded a Killam Scholarship!
Apr 17, 2013
Congratulations to Michelle Chan who was recently awarded the Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize!
Apr 17, 2013
David Webber was recently interviewed on Alberta Primetime, discussing his research on the effects of social validation and invalidation on the distress of killing. The paper published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin was co-authored by Jeff Schimel, Andy Martens, Joseph Hayes, and Erik H. Faucher. They have also recently received attention in Expressnews, the Gateway and Rawstory.
Mar 25, 2013
Congratulations to Brian Dupuis, who won an NSERC PGSD3 Doctoral Award, and Sarah Elke, who won an NSERC CGSM Masters Award.
Mar 20, 2013
Congratulations to Gail Moroschan on the successful defence of her dissertation, "Auditory and Visual Phonological Processing During Reading and Listening". Nice work Dr. Moroschan!
Mar 19, 2013
Norman Brown studies real-world cognition. Broadly speaking, research in this area is concerned with understanding how we learn about the world we live in, what we learn about it, and how we use this knowledge. (more)Mar 11, 2013
Darren Proppe, a PhD from Chris Sturdy's lab was recently interviewed by the BBC about some of his PhD research on Traffic noise driving songbirds to the limit in cities.
Mar 11, 2013
The Faculty of Arts recently posted articles featuring Peter Dixon "This book changed my life" and Vanessa Peynenburg "Eventually I knew that I was at a point where I was going to die from my illness".
Mar 01, 2013
Congratulations to Chris Sturdy on winning the Faculty of Science Graduate Mentoring award for 2013!
Feb 19, 2013
Congratulations to Jeff Schimel for winning a Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching award as well as Dayuma Vargas Lascano for winning a Graduate Student Teaching award.
Feb 14, 2013
The Edmonton Journal featured an article titled "Negative billboards distract drivers" using Michelle Chan’s research.Feb 14, 2013
Congratulations to Dayuma Vargas Lascano who has been awarded a 2013 Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award!
Feb 13, 2013
A Faculty of Science Doctoral Dissertation Award has been awarded to Dr. Marisa Hoeschele! Well done, Dr. Hoeschele.
Jan 20, 2013
Congratulations to Kris McKeown who recently defended his PhD in fine form.
Jan 17, 2013
Scientific American has a blog post titled "When I was your age… Or, what is it with kids these days?" featuring the work of Connie Svob and Norman Brown.
Jan 13, 2013
Lou Omerzu marks 40 years of service in the Department of Psychology (more).