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Robert
Siegler(4-30-08)
Playing
Games in Classroom Helping Pupils Grasp Math
EDUCATION
WEEK ARTICLE
Sheldon Cohen
CARNEGIE
MELLON TODAY ARTICLE(3-26-08)
Can
wealth affect health?USA
TODAY ARTICLE(3-23-08)
Robert Siegler (3-26-08)
Kids'
board games help to build math skills, study finds
POST
GAZETTE ARTICE
Marcel Just (March
2008)
Cell
Phones & Driving
"Local
Study Analyzes Cell Phones & Driving"KDKA
(Video)
"CMU
Study: Listening To Cell Phone Call Impairs Driving"WPXI
"Cell
phones, driving don't mix"Post
Gazette
In
other words: 'Shut up and drive!'Post
Gazette
Marcel Just (1-4-08)
CMU
finds human brains similarly organized
POST
GAZETTE ARTICE
Brooke Feeney (6-4-07)
The
Thinkers: CMU prof shows benefits of emotional support
POST
GAZETTE ARTICE
David Klahr (5-1-07)
Carnegie
Mellon Psychologist Named To National Academy of Education
Carnegie
Mellon University Psychology Professor David Klahr has been elected to
the
National
Academy of Education (NAEd). Klahr is the first Carnegie Mellon faculty
member
to
be elected to the NAEd, an elite group of researchers who promote quality
education
research
and policyPress
Release
David Rakison (3-7-07)
Why
do we think spiders and snakes are so scary? It just might be evolution
POST
GAZETTE ARTICE
Sheldon Cohen (3-6-07)
Is
happiness more than a state of mind? .Science
suggests it’s also a matter of health
NBC
Nightly News ARTICLE
& VIDEOVIDEO
Marcel Just (2-11-07)
Dyslexia
begins when the wires don't meet
POST
GAZETTE ARTICE
Sheldon Cohen (5-22-06)
Carnegie
Mellon Study Demonstrates That Lower Income,
Education
Lead to Greater Stress Levels
People
with low incomes are more likely to be under stress than their wealthier
peers,
according
to a study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, the journal of the American
Psychosomatic
Society, by Sheldon Cohen, Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology.
Press
Release
Robert Siegler (5-18-06)
Carnegie
Mellon Psychologist Appointed To National Math Education Panel.
The
U.S. Department of Education has appointed Robert Siegler, the Teresa Heinz
Professor
of Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, to the National
Mathematics
Advisory Panel. Press
Release
John Anderson (4-10-06)
John
Anderson has been selected to receive the 2006 (inaugural) Heineken prize
for
Cognitive
Science from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He
will receive the award on 28 September in Amsterdam. Press
Release
David Rakison..(2-19-06) "Professor
peeks into minds of babies"..PITTSBURGH
TRIBUNE-REVIEW ARTICLE
Sheldon Cohen..(7-6-05) Carnegie
Mellon Psychologist Receives NIH Grant To Explore Links
Between
Health and Social Factors. Press
Release
David Rakison David
H. Rakison was the recipient of the "Young Investigator Award"
from
the International Society
on Infant Studies.
David Klahr (11-04)
Research
exploring the relative effectiveness of direct instruction versus discovery
learning
gains the attention of both psychologists and educators.
NCLB
Could Alter Science Teaching..(Education
Week, Nov. 10, 2004)
Instruction
versus exploration in science learning..(APA
Monitor, June 2004)
Robert Siegler..(10-28-04) Robert
Siegler, PhD. has been awarded APA's
Distinguished Scientific Contribution
Award
for 2005. This award is given to only three researchers across all
areas of
psychology
each year. Previous recipients of this award from the area of Cognitive
Developmental
Psychology include the likes of: Eleanor J. Gibson, PhD (1968),
Jean
Piaget, PhD (1969), John H. Flavell PhD (1984), Rochel Gelman, PhD
(1995),
and
Elizabeth Spelke, PhD (2000). This award, which is APA's highest
honor,
has
been made annually by the APA since 1956. Awards are traditionally
presented
at
the annual convention of the APA.
..(9-16-04) ...New York Times Article on Cognitive Tutors ...NY TIMES ARTICLE David Klahr..(3-19-04) David
Klahr was a featured speaker at the Secretary of Education's "Science Summit"
SCIENCE
SUMMIT WEB PAGE
David Rakison..(1-2-04) "Baby
talk has UT researchers listening"..TOLEDO
BLADE ARTICE
Marcel Just..(11-4-02) ..."CMU work aims to change relationship between vehicle, driver"..POST GAZETTE ARTICE John Anderson was awarded the R. K. Mellon Chair Marlene Behrmann Cited for Her Research into the Mind's "Eye"...COMPLETE ARTICLE Sheldon Cohen was the recipient of James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for outstanding ...career contributions to applied psychological research, American Psychological ...Society, 2002 ...APS SITE Michael Scheier was recently elected president of the Division of Health Psychology (38) ...of the American Psychological Association ...APA SITE Margaret Clark was elected to the executive committee of the Society for Experimental ...Social Psychology Lori Holt along with A.Lotto, organized a special session on Phonetic Category Acquisition ...at the Pittsburgh Acoustical Society Meeting. A summary of this special session, including ...a quote from her talk, appeared in the August Scientific American..LINK Roberta Klatzky was elected Chair of the Attention and Performance Society. Jay McClelland received the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology, along with his long-time ...collaborator, David Rumelhart...POST GAZETTE ARTICE David Klahr’s book, "Exploring Science" was reprinted in paperback, ...spring 2002, MIT Press Bob Seigler completed a child development textbook titled "How Children Develop"; ...along with co-authors DeLoache, and Eisenberg. It will be out in December. Margaret Clark gave an invited keynote address to the Society for Personality and Social ...Psychology at their 2002 meeting in Savannah, Georgia. David Klahr will be the keynote speaker at the NSF's Engineering and Computing ...Education Grantees Conference (Sept 30, 2002) and is the invited speaker ...for the APS Annual meeting, June, 2003. Bob Siegler gave the keynote address for the Cognitive Development Society Conference ...in October 2001. Bob was also the one of the keynote speakers at a conference in Paris in ...June 2002, the other being John Anderson. . |