In The News

The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), at their 21st Biennial Congress on June 30, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA, awarded Dr. Michael Lewis a Lifetime Distinguished Contribution Award for the Study of Infant Development.

The Mistletoe Research Fellowship provides research grants and opportunities to collaborate with startups. This fellowship provides 10k to be used towards any research activity. He also becomes a part of the Mistletoe Startup collaboration which provides professional training through workshops and networking, as well as participation in a year-long applied industry project. Please do join us in congratulating him, and his mentor Dr. Thomas Papathomas!

Put your cellphone down! Research coming from the lab of Arnold Glass (Psychology) is getting cited in the media. In his study, students in classes with cellphones and laptops allowed scored significantly lower on exams. You can read more about this work in a recent ABC News report.

Incoming graduate student in Psychology, Richa Rai, was awarded an Excellence Fellowship by the Dean’s office. This is a competitive fellowship, offered to a limited number of students who demonstrate outstanding qualifications. She will be working with Elizabeth Torres (Psychology).

RuCCS was selected as the only unit in SAS to be entered into the Entrepreneurial Award Program, which offers funds and support to initiate a collaborative exchange with Chinese students.

Dr. Paul Pietroski (Philosophy) released his book to critical acclaim that argues for a version of “semantic internalism” and proposes an original account of how language works entitled, Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values.

Konstantinos Michmizos won an Intel Grant Award on Neuromorphic Computing for his single-PI proposal entitled "Spike-based Active SLAM for autonomous robots developing action habits." Konstantinos's efforts are timely placing our Department at the center of the emerging Neuromorphic Community and introduces Rutgers as one of the 10 research universities in the world having access to Intel's unique neuromorphic chip. Konstantinos Michmizos won an Intel Grant Award on Neuromorphic Computing for...

The awards were announced at a May 1 ceremony at Rutgers Hillel and honored seventeen teachers--from faculty members to graduate students--for accomplishments both within and beyond the classroom.