Dr. Evan Risko has been awarded the prestigious Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, recognizing his exceptional commitment to the success of his graduate students.
Congratulations to Dr. Neil Hester, recipient of the 2023 Best Social Cognition Paper Award by the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) for his paper, Dress is a fundamental component of person perception.
Congratulations to Dr. Geoffrey T. Fong on being named one of the 2025 inductees to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Dr. Myra Fernandes who has been selected as the incoming Governing Board Chair of the Psychonomic Society! The Psychonomic Society is the preeminent international society for the experimental study of cognition and has over 4,300 scientist members.
The recently concluded Soup and Bannock Lunch, hosted by a team of volunteers from our psychology department, mostly graduate and undergraduate students, was a huge success. Everyone had a great time.
Congratulations to Dr. Joanne Wood on being awarded the 2024 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity.
Congratulations on all of your contributions and on being recognized by your peers with such a major award!
This annual award recognizes a scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of self and identity throughout their academic career.
Dr. Clara Colombatto and her colleague Dr. Steve Fleming at University College London, recently revealed that two-thirds of people think that artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have some degree of consciousness and can have subjective experiences such as feelings and memories.
Congratulations to the many students and faculty who presented their work at CSBBCS last week in Edmonton!
We are happy to report that two of our CNS graduate students had their work recognized with awards:
Congratulations to students in the I/O area who took Ottawa by storm at last week’s Canadian Psychological Association meeting! Eleven students from the I/O area attended and went on to sweep ALL of the Canadian Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology) poster awards!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Evan Risko who is the recipient of the 2024 Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is being recognized for all of his teaching efforts, but in particular for his dedication to graduate teaching and mentorship.