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Recent News...
♦ Elma Raissi (BSc Neuroscience Honours Student in the Language Processing Lab) wins the Students' Union-Excellence in Research Honourable Mention Award and $500 for the poster she presented on her honours thesis research at the University of Calgary Undergraduate Research Symposium (November 2011).
♦ Our work on the Psychology of Sarcasm is highlighted in a new article in the Smithsonian Magazine (November 2011).
♦ Recent Language Processing Lab research on visual word recognition in competitive Scrabble players (by Ian Hargreaves, Penny Pexman, Lenka Zdrazilova, and Peter Sargious) is described in the media and in several good blogs: MSNBC's The Body Odd and Scientific Canadian. (August 2011).
Ian Hargreaves and Penny Pexman, Calgary Herald, August 18, 2011
♦ Kristin Rostad wins an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Studentship! (May 2011)
♦ Michele Wellsby wins a prestigious NSERC CGS scholarship (March 2011). Well done Michele!
♦ Ian Hargreaves selected for Utrecht University's Neuroscience of Communicative Meaning Summer School (March 2011)
♦ Gemma Leonard wins a summer NSERC USRA award (March 2011)
♦ Ian Hargreaves wins an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Studentship and also an Izaak Walton Killam Pre-Doctoral Scholarship (May 2010). Congratulations Ian!
♦ Language Processing Lab honours student Kimberly Thatcher wins the Department of Psychology Undergraduate Conference Best Poster Award (May 2010)
Kimberly with her Honours Supervisors, Penny Pexman and Catie Phillips
♦ Recent research by Melanie Glenwright and Penny Pexman is described in an issue of The Psychologist (click here to read the article) (April 2010)
♦ Gemma Leonard and Michelle White win Summer Studentship Awards from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (April 2010)
♦ Kristin Rostad wins a 2009 Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her Masters Thesis at Concordia University (August 2009)
♦ Lenka Zdrazilova successfully defends her Masters thesis. Congratulations Lenka! (June 2009)
♦ Juanita Whalen wins the Department of Psychology's Service Award. (June 2009)
♦ Catie Phillips receives a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship to fund her PhD studies. (May 2009)
♦ Read a blog on the Psychological Science website about Penny Pexman's recent research here. This piece also appeared in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American Mind.