David Langer Receives SCCAP Early Career Award
The Board of Directors of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP)/APA Division 53, has selected Dr. David Langer as the recipient of the Richard “Dick” Abidin Early Career Award and Grant. This award is named in honor of Dick Abidin, Ed.D, ABPP, the current Treasurer and a longtime member of SCCAP. The award is […]
BU Research Feature Story on Robert Reinhart
BU Research has written “A ‘Turbo Charge’ for Your Brain?”, a profile on the work of PBS faculty member Robert Reinhart. From the article: Robert Reinhart calls the medial frontal cortex the “alarm bell of the brain.” “If you make an error, this brain area fires,” says Reinhart, an assistant professor of psychological and brain […]
Professor Deborah Kelemen’s New Children’s Book About Evolution Featured in BU Today
PBS Professor Deborah Kelemen has recently published How the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses, a children’s book designed to teach the concept of evolution by natural selection to very young audiences. BU Today offers an in-depth profile on the book and how it came about. From the article: Conventional wisdom holds that natural selection is too complex for […]
Steve Ramirez Featured in BU Today
BU Today has published a profile on PBS Assistant Professor Steve Ramirez, detailing his background, research interests, and bevy of upcoming projects. From the article: His research into the nature and mechanisms of memory have made him a hot hand in neuroscience. His TED talk with research partner Xu Liu garnered over a million views. […]
Memorial Service for Professor Howard Eichenbaum
A memorial service will be held for PBS Professor Howard Eichenbaum: October 5, 2017, 1:00 – 2:30 PM Followed by reception. Boston University, Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor. Free parking will be available for attendees at the Warren Towers garage (700 Commonwealth Avenue, garage entrance on Hindsale street). Please let the parking attendant […]
Remembrance of Howard Eichenbaum Published in Science
In remembrance of Howard Eichenbaum, PBS Professors Michael Hasselmo and Chantal Stern have authored a brief retrospective, published in Science, on his many contributions to psychological research, Boston University, and its faculty and students. Remembering Howard Eichenbaum’s career prompts the recall of many vivid memories, which is appropriate given Howard’s influential research on declarative memory function. His work […]
Prof. Jean Berko Gleason Receives Roger Brown Award
PBS Prof. Emerita Jean Berko Gleason received the Roger Brown Award at the 14th International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Lyon, France. The Department congratulates her on this honor!
BU mourns the passing of PBS Professor Howard Eichenbaum
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences mourns the sudden passing of Professor Howard Eichenbaum. From the obituary in BU Today: Howard Eichenbaum, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and brain sciences, director of BU’s Center for Memory and Brain and the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, and […]
Child Cognition Lab & “How the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses” Making News!
PBS Professor Deborah Kelemen and the Child Cognition Lab recently published How the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses, a book designed to teach young children about evolution. The book has since received positive attention. Professor Kelemen recently participated in a panel discussion (26 minutes in) with Professor Richard Dawkin’s on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, the UK’s largest cultural/arts […]
Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg Participates in Reddit AMA!
Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg recently took part in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session. The extensive Q&A covered a wide range of topics, from how our understanding of autism spectrum disorders has evolved over Dr. Tager-Flusberg’s 40-year career, to how the field may change in the years to come.