Department News
May 10, 2012
Chris Madan won a Doctoral Scholarship from the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. Marisa Hoeschele was granted an Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship. Jiawen Chen, Danielle Lubyk, and Jamal Saleh were awarded Government of Alberta Graduate Student Scholarships. Congratulations.
Apr 30, 2012
Congratulations to David Webber who successfully passed his Oral Candidacy exam recently.
Apr 27, 2012
Congratulations to Kerrie Johnston who has been selected to receive the Arts Outstanding Administrative Award!
Apr 26, 2012
Congratulations to these award winning students. Michele Moscicki received a Dissertation Fellowship, Carley Piatt received a Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award, Danielle Lubyk was granted a Profiling Alberta's Graduate Students Award and Connie Svob received a Faculty of Arts International Travel Award.
Apr 12, 2012
Jeff Schimel recently won a Faculty of Arts Research Award! Congratulations to Jeff for his excellent and important program of research.
Apr 04, 2012
Chris Madan and Michelle Yeung won NSERC PGSDs and the U of A's President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction. Marisa Hoeschele was awarded The University of Alberta's Andrew Stewart Memorial Prize. Shraddha Sapkota was awarded the Daniels/Rabin Parkinson's Society of Alberta Graduate Scholarship.
Apr 03, 2012
Congratulations to Dayuma Lascano who successfully passed her Oral Candidacy exam.
Mar 19, 2012
Congratulations to Lauren Guillette, who recently won a Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Mar 13, 2012
Congratulations to our graduate students for winning awards : Lauren Guillette - City Lumber 75th Anniversary International Graduate Student Award, Jiawen Chen - Armand Bombardier CGS Master's Scholarship, Jamal Saleh - Queen Elizabeth II Master's Scholarship
Mar 11, 2012
Congratulations to Sawa Senzaki, who recently passed her candidacy exam.
Mar 07, 2012
Congratulations to Chris Lepine who successfully defended his dissertation "An expressivist psychology of inhabited spaces" back in December of 2011.
Feb 28, 2012
Congratulations to Cyrus Shaoul for his successful defence of his interesting and provocative dissertation, "The processing of lexical sequences." Great work, Dr. Shaoul!
Feb 16, 2012
Clayton Dickson was recently recognized in the University of Alberta news and in the Journal of Neuroscience for his research on activity in memory related structures.Feb 16, 2012
Connie Varnhagen was recently awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship award for teaching excellence and educational leadership. (more)Feb 16, 2012
Elena Nicoladis recently appeared in the University of Alberta news for her study "Kids Show Cultural Gender Bias". (more)Feb 09, 2012
Kyle Mathewson, a postdoctoral fellow working with Clay Dickson, is also in the new today regarding his research on how the brain works when it is processing and learning. (more)
Feb 07, 2012
Elena Nicoladis has published several articles on gesture and language development in bilingual and monolingual children. Her SSHRC/NSERC funded research challenges views about the symbolic nature of gestures and how bilinguals represent information in language. Her finding that children assume gestures mean actions rather than objects challenges the view that children treat gestures and words as equally symbolic and may explain why they have difficulty interpreting number gestures. (more)Jan 29, 2012
The Undergraduate Research Initiative announces two new funds for undergraduate student research: The Undergraduate Student Researcher Stipen and The Undergraduate Research Support Fund. More information and application forms are found here.
Jan 29, 2012
Chris Sturdy recently appeared in the Edmonton Journal newspaper with the article title "U of A scientists know why the caged bird sings". Check out the Jan 12, 2012
The Internship Forum will be held on Wednesday January 25, 2012 at 5:30-7:00pm in CCIS 1-140.
Jan 01, 2012
The Gay Bisanz Memorial Turkey Drive has once again raised a fabulous sum ($5,525.60) to help those in need and your generous turkey spirit will warm hearts and tummies this season. Thank you one and all for your time, patience, generosity and very kind support.