2025-01-10 - This summer, Professor Renee Baillargeon will receive the 2025 Koffka Medal from the Department of Psychology at the University of Giessen in Germany. Dr. Baillargeon is the Director of the Infant Cognition Lab, an Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita of the department, and a Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita at the University. Her research focuses on early causal reasoning in four...

2024-10-08 - Assistant Professor Violeta J. Rodriguez has been awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s DP5 Early Independence Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  The Early Independence Award is designed for exceptional junior scientists who have recently completed their doctoral degrees, allowing them to bypass traditional postdoctoral training...

2024-08-09 - Athena Thai won first place at the Illinois Summer Research Symposium for her Undergraduate Research Talk, "Challenges to Implementing Trauma-Informed Practices: Serving Students of Color in School-Based Settings." The Illinois Summer Research Symposium is the culminating program that features cutting-edge research, achievement, and creativity by summer scholars. Nearly 140...