Welcome to the CLPS Faculty Activities Section!

Learn about some of the academic and professional activities of department members by clicking on the menu buttons on the left-hand side of this page. We have authors, book editors, journal editors-in-chief and presidents of professional organizations. Scroll through the announcements below to learn about department recipients of recent awards and honors. To nominate a department member for an internal or external award, follow the instructions on the Nominations Committee charge. To post an announcement about a CLPS recipient of a recent award or honor, email the Chair of the Nominations Committee ([email protected]) with the name of the honoree, the name of the award or honor, and a link to the award or honor information.

Honors and Awards for the 2022-23 Academic Year

• Congratulations to Thomas Serre and his HMD51 dataset team on winning the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize 2022 for pioneering human action recognition datasets!! This Prize is to commemorate Mark Everingham and to encourage others to follow in his footsteps by acting to further progress in the computer vision community as a whole. The prize shall be given to a researcher, or a team of researchers, who have made a selfless contribution of significant benefit to other members of the computer vision community.
• Congratulations to Scott Anderbois! Scott is a recipient of the coveted Cogut Center's Collaborative Humanities Course Award. You can read about the award here and Scott's co-taught course (ANTH 1840) here.  Scott is the third CLPS faculty member to win this award (following Joachim Krueger and Fulvio Domini).  Congratulations, Scott!
• Belated congratulations to Joachim Krueger for his 500^th essay on his Psychology Today Online blog ‘One among many’ which has accumulated more than 1.9 M views overall.  500. What if there were no what if questions? (3/6/2021) is a riff on persuasion. Joachim has also republished two collections of his essays available here and here.
• Congratulations to Andrea Megela Simmons on the selection of her paper as the cover article of the November issue of JASA-EL! This paper presents results of field experiments demonstrating that male bullfrogs do not use acoustic cues perceived as timbre or roughness by humans for mediating male-male vocal interactions (which function to regulate aggressive activity).  These new behavioral data are consistent with her neurophysiological results demonstrating that the frog's auditory system is specialized to detect periodicity cues in sounds (i.e., pitch as perceived by humans).  Congratulations, Andrea!
• Congratulations to Bill Warren who has received the 2023 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science. This is the highest award for a vision scientist. You can read about the award and Bill's work here:  https://www.visionsciences.org/2023-ken-nakayama-medal/
• Congratulations to Daphna Buchsbaum, winner of a 2023 OVPR Research Seed Award from Brown. You can read about Daphna's project here. Well done!
• Congratulations to Joo-Hyun Song, winner of a 2023 OVPR Research Seed Award from Brown. You can read about Joo-Hyun's project here. Well done!

Honors and Awards for the 2021-22 Academic Year

• Congratulations to Pauline (Polly) Jacobson on her election as Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
• Congratulations to David Badre, Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics for his book On Task, Association of American Publishers.
• Congratulations to Amitai Shenhav, winner of this year's Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award! 
• Congratulations to Roman Feiman on his appointment as a 2022-2024 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow! The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. Well done, Roman! -  https://jacobsfoundation.org/en/activity/jacobs-foundation-research-fellows/
• David Badre has been elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application. Congratulations, David!
• Oriel FeldmanHall won the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.This award recognizes excellent psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers. Congratulations, Oriel!
• Joachim Krueger is featured in the Chronicle for Higher Education for his work on happiness. You can listen to the podcast here. Congratulations, Joachim!
• Oriel FeldmanHall has been awarded the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award.Congratulations!
• Oriel FeldmanHall is a winner of the 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. 
• Congratulations to David Badre, winner of an inaugural Midcareer Research Achievement Award. This award recognizes a select group of standout scholars who are nominated by their peers for their distinguished and transformative research.
• Congratulations to Elena Festa, winner of the Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising. This award was created in 2004 to recognize and reward excellence in advising by Brown faculty.
• Congratulations to Thomas Serre for the Helmholtz award for his 2011 paper 'HMDB: A large video database for human motion recognition' with H. Kuehne, H. Jhuang, E. Garrote, T. Poggio. This award recognizes ICCV papers from ten years ago with significant impact on computer vision research. You can read more about the award here.

Honors and Awards for the 2020-21 Academic Year

• Congratulations to Professor David Sobel on his election as Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
• Amitai Shenhav was a winner of the 2020 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions.
• Bertram Malle has a paper that just received the Scientific Impact Award (2019), Society of Experimental Social Psychology, for 1994 journal article on social dominance orientation (with Felicia Pratto, Jim Sidanius, Lisa Stallworth).
• Steve Sloman was elected a Fellow for the Cognitive Science Society.
• Steve Sloman was elected a Fellow for the Society for Experimental Psychologists.  
• Michael Frank has won the National Academy of Sciences 2021 Troland Research Award. 
• Amitai Shenhav has been awarded the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award.
• Congratulations to David Badre on the publication of his new book: On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done, Princeton University Press.
• Oriel FeldmanHall was awarded the Early Career Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics.
• Amitai Shenhav was elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
• Oriel FeldmanHall wins the 2020 Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award.
• Roman Feiman was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.
• Roman Feiman wins a 2021 Salomon Award for his project: The role of grammar and descriptions in referent identification.
• Congratulations to Professor David Sobel, recipient of the 2021 Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Award for Research!
• Daphna Buchsbaum is a recipient of an Early Career Research Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. Congratulations Daphna!