Luis Alejandro Salas
Department of Classics
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Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Leigh Schmidt
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
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Department of English
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Department of Classics
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Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
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Department of English
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College Writing Program
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Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Jeffrey M. Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $250,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study event cognition “in the wild.” This project will take the research into the world, where people actually experience events. Key to the research is “Unforgettable,” an infrastructure developed over the past decade by collaborator Simon Dennis, of the University of Melbourne, which helps people enrich and better understand their own memories while collecting data for a scientific exploration of event comprehension and memory.
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