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Elika Bergelson Receives DIBS Research Incubator Award
Monday, December 10, 2018Congratulations to P&N's Elika Bergelson for receiving a 2018-2019 Research Incubator Award from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The awards provide seed funding to support collaborative brain science research for projects of exceptional innovation and broad significance to the field... Read More »
Alisa Bedrov Receives 2018-2019 Jerome S. Bruner Award
Friday, November 16, 2018The Duke Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is pleased to announce that Duke senior Alisa Bedrov is this year's winner of the Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. A double major in Psychology and Russian, Bedrov is in the process of applying to PhD... Read More »
Bilbo, Bergelson Receive Bass Connections Professorships
Wednesday, November 14, 2018Congratulations to P&N's Staci Bilbo and Elika Bergelson, who have received Bass Connections professorships. They are among seven Duke professors across three Duke schools receiving these named professorships. Bass Connections professorships recognize faculty whose scholarship and teaching... Read More »
P&N Person of the Week: John Blackshear
Monday, November 5, 2018The Prince of Duke, Psychological Past and Present John Blackshear lives on East Campus as a Faculty in Residence in Trinity Dorm, photo by Chen John Blackshear burst into the emergency room and yelled that he was having a heart attack. It wasn’t the first time this happened. The... Read More »
Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists Conference Reflections
Monday, November 5, 2018The Duke Identity and Diversity Lab, led by Dr. Sarah Gaither, had an amazing showing with other Duke P&N members at the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologist Conference this year. Their day started off with lab manager Joshua Perlin's first ever data blitz talk on prosocial... Read More »
P&N Graduate Students and Postdocs Receive Research Seed Grants
Tuesday, October 30, 2018Psychology & Neuroscience is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the Graduate / Postdoctoral research awards. These students and fellows each received awards of up to $5,000 to spark novel research projects and to connect their research ideas to faculty and undergraduate students in our... Read More »
P&N Person of the Week: Terrie Moffitt
Sunday, October 28, 2018Moffitt pictured in blue frames, although she rotates approximately four frames at any given time, photo by Chen Duke Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Terrie Moffitt was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a leading organization providing advice on health,... Read More »
The Duke NMU/SNP Neuroscience Mentoring Program
Tuesday, October 23, 2018The Duke NMU/SNP Neuroscience Mentoring Program Are you a freshman interested in neuroscience? Unsure as to how to navigate the many neuroscience opportunities at Duke? Would you like to learn firsthand from an upperclassman mentor how to find a... Read More »
Terrie Moffitt Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Monday, October 22, 2018Duke Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Terrie Moffitt has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a leading organization providing advice on health, science and technology. Moffitt studies many of the pressing issues impacting American policy and society, including the interaction... Read More »
Undergraduate Neuroscience Majors Attend Their First International Conference
Thursday, October 18, 2018Over Duke's 2018 Fall Break, five undergraduate neuroscience majors and three recent undergraduate alumni traveled to Philadelphia to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics, an international meeting of scientists doing research on the neuroscience of decision making... Read More »