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  • Mija Van Der Wege

    January 17, 2005
    Mija Van Der Wege, Psychology, received a Wallin Fellowship to develop a mathematical model that can be applied to the spread of words, apply the model to previously collected corpus data, and plan and conduct a series of controlled experiments to try to isolate factors that affect various parameters of the models

  • Julie Neiworth

    January 17, 2005
    Julie Neiworth, Psychology, received a Wallin Fellowship to support a half-time summer research assistant to help complete a project previously funded by NIH.

  • Neil Lutsky

    January 4, 2005

    Professor of Psychology, recently published a lead essay, "The Shifting Currents of Scholarship and Teaching in the Ecologies of Academic Careers", in the e-book Preparing the New Psychology Professoriate (Buskist, Beins, & Hevern, Eds.). In December Lutsky also participated in the American Psychological Association's Task Force on "Internationalizing the Discipline." This is part of a multi-discipline initiative organized by the American Council on Education (ACE) and funded by the Carnegie Foundation.

  • Kathleen Galotti

    December 7, 2004
    Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Studies, presented a poster at the 2004 Psychonomic Society Meeting in Minneapolis in November, entitled , " Real-Life Decisions: Parents Choosing Educational Options". Her co-authors were four Carleton alums, each of whom has spent a year working as a research project manager, supervising the 8-10 undergraduate research assistants who helped gather and analyze data. The alums are: Hope Altenbaumer '99, Heather Wilde Geerts '00, Allison Rupp '03, and Julie Woulfe '04. The research has been funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation over the past four years, and has involved interviews with over 250 Northfield parents.

  • Mija Van Der Wege

    November 22, 2004
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented a poster entitled "The Effects of Audience Awareness and Interactivity on Referential Communication Tasks" at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. The poster was co-authored by psychology alumnus Brandon Tearse '04.

  • Julie Neiworth

    November 8, 2004
    Professor of Psychology, co-authored a presentation with neuroscience major Amy Gleichman ('05), psychology alum Anne Olinick ('04), and psychology major Kristen Lamp ('05), entitled "Hierarchical Processing of Stimuli by Adults, 5-Year Olds, and Monkeys", for the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. The presentation will be made by all the students and Julie on Nov 18th, 2004.

  • Mija Van Der Wege

    August 30, 2004
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, recently chaired a session on Conversation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, and presented a poster entitled "Learning to be fluently disfluent" at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
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