Katie D'Aunno - WISER Fellowhsip
Matt Kmiecik - Provost Fellowship & Mulcahy Scholarship
Nirav Patel - Provost Fellowship & Mulcahy Scholarship
Beccy Shukhman - Mulcahy Fellowship
Natasha Vyas - Carbon Fellowship
Daniel Dickson - Heckler Award
Katie D'Aunno - WISER Fellowhsip Matt Kmiecik - Provost Fellowship & Mulcahy Scholarship Nirav Patel - Provost Fellowship & Mulcahy Scholarship Beccy Shukhman - Mulcahy Fellowship Natasha Vyas - Carbon Fellowship
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Kelly Brandstatt, Miraj Chokshi, John Molony, Margaret Rusch, and Brian Sweis joined the CAN Lab Alumni over the weekend! Also a hearty congratulations to Val Flores and Stephanie Hare who added MA's to their titles. Congratulations from all of us! Top: Celebrating at the annual end of the year CAN lab bash at Bob and Debbies! Below: Brian, Kelly, Bob, Miraj, and John celebrating at the Senior Toast. Miraj and the Nutty Professor. Above: The Kelly, Miraj, Bob, John, Margaret, and Brian after it was official! Below: Neuroscience Society Officers Queen Margaret and Prince Brian and some high jinks.
CAN Lab was out of the lab again on Saturday presenting their work at the LUROP Undergraduate Research Symposium. Kelly Brandstatt, John Molony, and Leonidas Skiadopoulos presented their work collaborative work with Sean McCarty and Stephanie Hare on insight in problem solving. Nirav Patel presented his Provost Fellowship project with graduate student Dan Wendell on the neural correlates of political ideology. Miraj Chokshi presented his Provost Fellowship project designed to look for the neural correlates of similarity processing. Brian Sweis presented his Carbon Fellowship work on stress and memory in the spoken paper session, and then his honors thesis project on inhibitory processing in analogical reasoning during the poster session. Matt Kmiecik presented his Provost Fellowship work using EEG to study verbal analogy. Lab members Brian Sweis and Margaret Rusch both won best poster awards, while lab co-director Bob Morrison won the Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring.
CAN lab members Kelly Brandstatt, Stephanie Hare, Matt Kmiecik, John Molony, Leo Skiadopolos, Brian Sweis and Dr. Bob Morrison presented their work along with thousands of other scientists at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, held in Chicago for the first time this year. Matt Kmiecik and Brian Sweis joined more than 300 students from throughout the midwest to present their research at the Chicago Area Research Symposium held on March 3 and the Chicago Holiday Inn. Lab member Kelly Brandstatt was part of a group from Loyola which helped organize the symposium. In addition lab members Krishna Bharani, Val Flores, Vanessa Raschke, Arie Zakaryan and Becky Silton leant a hand with judging, while Bob Morrison gave the keynote address at the conclusion of the day. Above left: Matt Kmiecik presents is poster at CAURS. Above right: Val Flores, Vanessa Raschke, Arie Zakaryan and Dr. Becky Silton served as judges. Below: Dr. Bob Morrison gave the keynote address.
Northwestern University's Mark Beeman visited campus and gave the spring Neuroscience lecture cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Minor, the Loyola Neuroscience Society and the CAN lab. Dr. Beeman described his research program exploring how the phenomenon of insight in problem solving may be implemented in the brain. Members of the CANlab's creativity research group and the Neuroscience Society also enjoyed a lively research discussion with Dr. Beeman dinner at Uncommon Ground. Over four years in the making, Dr. Morrison's latest book, the Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, coedited with Keith J. Holyoak was released last month. Nobel Prize winning psychologist Dan Kahnemann declared the OHTR an "indispensible book", while University of Michigan professor Richard Nesbitt said "the handbook will define the topics of thinking and reasoning for years to come." Intended for both beginners and seasoned veterans in the field, the OHTR contains 41 chapters written by the eminent researchers in the study of thinking and reasoning. Chapters include both basic as well as applied topics. You can survey the list of topics here. The CAN lab is the recipient of another new grant, this time from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund administered by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The award will help us further expand our research program dedicated to helping to predict when older adults are moving from normal to pathologic aging. The lab has also recently received an internal Loyola award to expand our work to explore super-agers, people who are over 80 years of age, but have the memory faculties of a 50 year old. By looking at both sides of aging we hope to have a better appreciation for the factors which contribute to successful aging. Last semester (Fall 2011), Dr. Silton contributed to the APS Wikipedia Initiative (APSWI) by assigning "Project NeuroWiki" to her Clinical Neuropsychology graduate class. Instead of a traditional final paper, students wrote or edited Wikipedia articles to include modern neuropsychological and pyschological information. Read the whole story here Writer and English professor Alex Lemon will visit Loyola this week to talk about his recent memoir "Happy" where he recounts his experience living with an aterovascular malformation (AVM) while he was a student at Macalester College.
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