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How Gender Bias Influences Math Education
Prof. Jenny Wang at Rutgers’ Cognition and Learning Center leads study uncovering how gender bias influences math education with her students Kathleen Cracknell (Doctoral student) and Julia Hauss... -
Celebrating Excellence: RuCCS Faculty Win CogSci Mind Challenge
The Cognitive Science Society has announced the winners of the 2025 Mind Challenge, and we are proud to share that Dr. Ryan Rhodes, Dr. Shannon Bryant, and Dr. Sten Knutsen from the Center for... -
Rutgers Symposium on Learning IV
Rutgers Symposium on Learning IV On Sunday, November 9th, We celebrated the influential career of Dr. Alan Leslie with a star studded lineup of invited speakers across disciplines. Click here for... -
Tracking Tiny Facial Movements Can Reveal Subtle Emotions in Autistic Individuals
A Rutgers-led study examines how detecting microscopic facial movements, previously overlooked, are key to enhancing emotional recognition in autistic individuals. A study led by Rutgers... -
RuCCS NTT Faculty Ryan Rhodes won 1st place in the CogSci Mind Challenge
Dr. Ryan Rhodes is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He won 1st place 🥇 in the 2024 CogSci Mind Challenge hosted at the Cognitive Science Society:... -
Professor Torres has published a new book by Elsevier Academic Press entitled, "Autism Autonomy:...
Her book provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, characterize, and treat patterns of sensory motor control... -
RuCCS Post Doctoral Associate, James Preston Lennon’s paper “Are Phenomenal Theories of Thought...
Congratulations to James Preston Lennon, a RuCCS Post Doctoral Associate whose research paper, “Are Phenomenal Theories of Thought Chauvinistic? “ was published in a July 2024 issue of the American... -
SAS Scientists Named Board of Governors Professors
The Board of Governors appointed SAS professor Dimitri Metaxas as Board of Governors Professors, a designation that celebrates the most decorated academic scholars at the university. Metaxas, of the...
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Upcoming Events
| 10 Feb 2026; 02:00PM - 03:30PM Sensitivity to False Beliefs in Language Models and Humans: What can (and can’t) We Learn from the Comparison? - Dr. Sean Trott, Rutgers-Newark |
| 17 Feb 2026; 02:00PM - 03:30PM Executive Council Meeting, RuCCS |
| 24 Feb 2026; 02:00PM - 03:30PM TBD, Alexis Wellwood, USC |
| 03 Mar 2026; 02:00PM - 03:20PM TBD, Dr. Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University |
| 10 Mar 2026; 02:00PM - 02:30PM Executive Council Meeting, RuCCS |