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HONORS AND AWARDS
(January December 2005)
Stephen Grossberg:
Stephen Grossberg and Ennio Mingolla gave a 2-hour tutorial on "How the Brain Sees" at the first-ever annual Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Satellite Workshop. This competitively chosen tutorial was the only modeling presentation selected, May.
One of five founding editors of Brains, Minds, and Media, a new open-access online journal whose goal is to advance teaching and educational technology in the neural and cognitive sciences, July.
Invited to be an editor of the International Journal of Neural Systems, July.
Honored at a two-day meeting at Boston University: An Anniversary Conference Celebrating Steve Grossberg@65 and CNS@15 held in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) building. There were 21 speakers, including 13 former students or postdocs of Grossberg, and over 200 participants, September:
( http://www.cns.bu.edu/events/Sept2005conference/index.html)
Elected IEEE Fellow, November.
Frank Guenther:
Invited Faculty Member, Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute. Presented a mini-course on speech production at the LSA Summer Institute, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Summer.
Expert Commentator, Associated Press. Provided expert commentary concerning speech production for a technology article picked up by the Associated Press and published widely, appearing on cnn.com and hundreds of other newspapers and news websites around the world, August.
Top Grant Score, NIH Motor Function in Speech and Rehabilitation Review Group R01 grant application "Sequencing and Initiation in Speech Production" received a percentile rank of 1.1% (highest score in a pool of approximately 90 applications), October.
Plenary Lecturer, American Speech and Hearing Association Research Institute. One of four keynote lecturers in a one-day research symposium on speech research attended by approximately 600 members of the American Speech and Hearing Association, November.
Ennio Mingolla:
Stephen Grossberg and Ennio Mingolla gave a 2-hour tutorial on "How the Brain Sees" at the first-ever annual Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Satellite Workshop. This competitively chosen tutorial was the only modeling presentation selected, May.
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham:
Participated as an invited panelist in the NSF-sponsored Student ThinkTank workshop (affiliated with ICAD 2005) in Limerick, Ireland, providing feedback and advice on PhD research projects using a case-study approach, July.
POSTDOCS:
Richard Frye received a 5-year NIH K23 career award, July.
STUDENTS:
Jared Danker received the Reis Sowul Prize for academic achievement in neuroscience, Brandeis University, May.
Jared Danker did an Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology, Brandeis University, May.
Kristen Gilbert received the Phi Beta Kappa prize for grades and excellent senior distinction research, Brandeis University, May.
Igor Korolev did an Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology, Brandeis University, May.
Angelique Matos-Lamourt, a summer undergraduate intern from Puerto Rico, received an NSF SURF award, Boston University, June.
Geetha Mathews received the Scarlet Key Award for outstanding contributions to the university community, Boston University, May.
Matt Mollison did an Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology, Brandeis University, May.
Renee Poulin received an undergraduate research opportunity (UROP) award, Boston University, May.
Jamie Salamon received an undergraduate research opportunity (UROP) award, Boston University, May.
Karin Schon received the Felicia Sorembe Lambros Prize for research, Boston University, January.
Karin Schon received the Kavita Jain dissertation award, Boston University, May.
Vitaly Terushkin did an Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology, Brandeis University, May.
Vitaly Terushkin received the Phi Beta Kappa prize for undergraduate scholarly achievement, Brandeis University, May.
Marisa Tricarico received the Phi Beta Kappa prize for undergraduate achievement, Boston University, May.