Arnold Awarded
Taylor Arnold, professor of data science and statistics, received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
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Student Research & Teaching Opportunities
We encourage cognitive science majors to develop their scientific exploration skills by becoming involved in faculty-mentored research. The best way to find a research experience that fits you is to explore faculty interests and the research projects that are currently active using the link below. If you are interested in learning more about conducting research, contact a faculty whose projects or areas appeal to you. Many faculty members are actively seeking students, and will be happy to talk about how you might become involved.
Dr. Lambert Finalist for Cherry Award
Kelly Lambert, MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology, was named one of three finalists for Baylor University’s 2024 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. This national award for exceptional teaching is the single largest monetary reward presented by a college or university.
As a Cherry Award finalist, Lambert received $15,000 as well as $10,000 for the University of Richmond Department of Psychology to foster the development of teaching skills.
Faculty Highlights
Robbins and Undergraduate Student Published
Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, and student co-author Tolya Evdokimov, '25, published the article "Distractor similarity and category variability effects in search" in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
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Robbins and Undergraduate Student Published
Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, along with Catherine Finegan-Dollak, assistant professor of computer science, and UR student Anatolii Evdokimov, ‘25, published “WEyeDS: A desktop webcam dataset for gaze estimation” in the proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2024).
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Robbins and Undergraduate Students Published
Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, and UR students Tolya Evdokimov, ‘25, Alina Enikeeva, ‘24, and Paean Luby, ‘25 published “How Scientists Use Webcams to Track Human Gaze” in Frontiers for Young Minds.
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