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HONORS AND AWARDS
(January – March 2007)
Gail Carpenter:
Re-election to the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) for 2008–2010.
Invited lecture, Boston University Center for Computational Science, May 2007.
Howard Eichenbaum:
Appointed Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, September 2007.
Appointed Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, October 2007.
Stephen Grossberg:
Plenary lecture, International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS), Waltham MA, April 2007.
General chair, Eleventh International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May 2007.
Invited videotaped lecture/interview, Santa Fe Institute lectures in Network Theory, July 2007.
Invited lecture at a conference at the University of California, Irvine on Vision, Attention, Memory, and Applications in honor of George Sperling, July 2007.
Invited lecture and participant at an NSF workshop on Future Challenges for the Science and Engineering of Learning, Arlington VA, July 2007.
Opening plenary lecture, 20th annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Orlando FL, August 2007.
Keynote lecture, 50th anniversary Stuyvesant High School reunion, New York NY, November 2007.
Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PreMI), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, December 2007.
Member of the Publications Committee of the International Neural Network Society (INNS).
Re-election to the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) for 2008–2010.
Frank Guenther:
Received the 2007 Willard R. Zemlin Lecture Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The Willard R. Zemlin Lecture in Speech Science commemorates the life and work of the late Willard R. Zemlin, who made significant contributions to communication sciences through his texts detailing the anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanism. The lecture, an annual event at the ASHA Convention, honors another speech scientist who has demonstrated a record of outstanding contributions to the broad spectrum of issues concerning speech science. Professor Guenther also received lifetime membership to Division 10 of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as the recipient of the Willard R. Zemlin Award.
Ennio Mingolla:
2007 Helmholtz Award, International Neural Network Society (INNS). Recognizes achievement in neural network modeling of sensation and perception.
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham:
Invited speaker, Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science session entitled “Sound and Space,” February 2007.
Invited plenary speaker, Oticon hearing aid company annual meeting, Mexico, May 2007.
Invited plenary speaker, Third International Forum for Hearing Aid Developers, Oldenburg, Germany, June 2007.
Chantal Stern:
Judge for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program symposium where student members of Thrust 4 presented their work, October 2007.
POSTDOCS:
Joseph Manns was awarded NIH/NIMH K99 MH79564-01, Title: Memory Binding in the Mammalian Hippocampus, January 2007.
STUDENTS:
Julie Olofson (CELEST undergraduate student, Stern Lab), Boston University UROP Award (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Award), Spring 2007.
Julie Olofson and Chantal Stern, Boston University UROP FROG Award (Undergraduate Research Funds award), Spring 2007.
Julie Olufson, Talk at the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at Boston University was judged to be the winning talk: “An fRMI study examining the role of parahippocampal cortex in the encoding of novel vs. familiar information”, October 2007.
Olufemi Olu-Lafe (CELEST graduate student, Liederman lab), Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship for the 2007–2008 academic year and renewable for up to three years.