Student Achievement
Boyd Receives Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award
Morgan Boyd, a 2023 graduate of the Department of Psychology, has received the Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award. This award recognizes a student with exceptional academic achievement who plans to pursue graduate studies in education. Boyd, whose studies focused on developmental learning and creative writing, will continue her education at New York University, Steinhardt, where she will pursue a Ph.D. in developmental psychology. Through her studies, she aims to research how to maximize successful outcomes in Black childhood education.
Morgan Boyd
Kwasa Named Fulbright U.S. Scholar
Jasmine Kwasa, a postdoctoral researcher in the Neuroscience Institute, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to expand her work to increase access to quality epilepsy monitoring in Kenya. Her research is focused on testing and designing products that are used to help electroencephalography machines work on people with coarse, curly, dense and afro-textured hair. The Fulbright Scholar Program provides funding for U.S. residents to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world.
Jasmine Kwasa
Robert Publishes Research in Journal of Neuroscience
Sophia Robert, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology, was first author on a paper that used neuroimaging to understand how the brain registers animated and static images. Robert was part of a team that developed short animations that capture the outline of a moving object, depicted with dots. The work illustrates that the regions of the brain that process static and animated images overlap but also identified new regions of the brain not previously associated with object categorization. The results were published in the January 2023 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Sophia Robert
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