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SAS Scientists Named Board of Governors Professors
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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 Department of Computer Science, has received numerous awards for his research and mentored many postdoctoral researchers, including over 67 Ph.D. students.
First Year Student Already Advancing Brain Research
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Even before taking her first class at Rutgers, Julia Rhodes had a paper published in a national scientific journal and worked on research at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. The first year student plans to major in cognitive science in SAS and continue conducting research on the brain. "I want to join a lab and keep pursuing that kind of work," she told Rutgers Today. "It's really exciting that I got to start before going to college."
The university’s Memory Optimization Lab creates an automated method for selecting helpful memory cues during recall difficulties
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https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-researchers-develop-reminder-system-enhance-memory-recall#
External reminders are crucial for memory support because they can unlock information that was previously hard to access. Professor Qiong Zhang and graduate student Charlotte Cornell sought to develop an automated way of selecting helpful reminders when memory recall becomes challenging. This work is supported by National Science Foundation and recently published in the journal Psychological Science.
Meet the New Honors College Faculty Fellows!
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This year, the Honors College welcomes four new Faculty Fellows to join Dean Bowers, including two Residential Fellows who live in the Honors College and two Affiliate Fellows who are present at regular times throughout the week. All are here to offer their time and ear for mentorship and conversation about anything on students' minds.
One of which is our own, Kristen Syrett, HC Affiliated Faculty Fellow—a Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and an advocate for gender equity and diversity.
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Study Examines What Drives Belief
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In a study published in Psychological Review, Drs. Sommer, Hemmer, and Musolino analyzed previous studies and have developed a new scientific theory they say is behind the psychology of belief.
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