Faculty Recognition
Slate Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Nico Slate , professor and head of the Department of History, received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his research on the Highlander Folk School, which played a key role in civil rights. According to Slate, Highlander’s philosophy of education was based on creating a space in which all people — particularly poor people, African Americans and others who faced oppression of various sorts — could come together and learn from each other and believe in themselves and their own power.
Nico Slate
Tarr Named University Professor Michael Tarr has been named the Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Cognitive and Brain Science. The rank of University Professor is the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at CMU. Tarr is head of the Department of Psychology and a professor in both the Department of Psychology
and the Neuroscience Institute. He also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Machine Learning Department. Tarr’s research focuses on areas of cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science and computational and artificial vision systems. His work draws connections between the study of natural and artificial vision and has been at the forefront of introducing new methods in the study of vision.
Michael Tarr
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