Brett Bankson featured on Bravo’s Top Chef Amateurs CNBC student, Brett Bankson, will be featured on Bravo’s Top Chef Amateurs in an episode airing on September 2 at 9:30 pm EDT. Bankson is a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Pitt... read more
Lori Holt Talks Crowd Noise on CBS News Sunday Morning Lori Holt speaks with CBS’ David Pogue about the sounds of the Super Bowl. Although sporting events have continued in the time of COVID-19, stadiums have largely remained empty while fans watch ... read more
The American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded Nazbanou (Bonnie) Nozari an award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, in the area of human cognition and learning. The APA cited Nozari for her “incisive exper... read more
The Cognitive Science Society announced seven research scientists, including Carnegie Mellon University’s Cleotilde Gonzalez, as 2021 Fellows. Gonzalez joins a selected group of 120 researchers, who have been recognized for their sustained excellence... read more
David S. Touretzky, along with Lorrie Cranor, both faculty members in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, are among almost 500 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to be named 2020 AAAS fello... read more
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, director of the Neuroscience Institute and George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience is a 2020 co-recipient of the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring from the Societ... read more
Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute researchers Timothy Verstynen and Eric Yttri and their collaborators have been granted over $1 million from the National Institutes for Health. The grant is through the Collaborative Research in Comp... read more
Neuroscientist Aryn Gittis, an associate professor of biological sciences in the Mellon College of Science and member of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute and the CNBC, has been awarded a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation to advance her re... read more
Former CNBC and CMU graduate student, Matthew Botvinick (2001) will be giving a talk on Thursday titled, “A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning”. Since leaving Princeton University where he was a professor of psychol... read more
Caroline Runyan, an assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the CNBC, has been awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. According to the NIH, the award ” supports unusually innovative research from ear... read more