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.
At the 2024 convocation on June 13, 2024, Dr. Colin MacLeod was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He retired in 2022 from the Department of Psychology after 19 years of service, preceded by 25 years of service at the University of Toronto. He is recognized as one of the foremost experts in the world on the subject of attention, learning, and memory.
Congratulations to Dr. Ramona Bobocel for her recent SIOP Fellowship election. This prestigious honor is in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the profession of I/O Psychology and is awarded to only a few members who have made significant contributions to the field.
The Faculty of Arts is very proud to share that Dr. Sara A. Hart will hold the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Developmental Science, based in the Department of Psychology. Announced today by the Government of Canada’s Ministry of Innovation, Science and Industry, Hart is one of two new CERCs at Waterloo and among 34 new holders of the chair across Canada. She joins Waterloo as a full professor in spring 2024.