Psychology Professors Wasserman, Markon receive national recognition for research

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Two faculty members in the Department of Psychology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have received prestigious national awards for their work.

Professor Ed WassermanProfessor Ed Wasserman, the Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology, has been awarded the 2015 Research Award from the Comparative Cognition Society (CCS). The CCS Research Award honors scientists who have made major contributions to our understanding of animal cognition during their career. During his long career at the UI, Wasserman has authored numerous papers; received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, among other grantors; and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition and How Animals See the World: Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision. For more about Wasserman's work, visit www2.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/.

 

Kristian MarkdonAssociate Professor Kristian Markon has received the 2014 Mid-Career Investigator Award from the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. The award was established to recognize the achievements of mid-level investigators in the field of personality and personality disorders. The award is based on overall professional and scientific productivity, and contributions that have increased our understanding of personality and personality disorders and their treatment. Markon's research interests center around statistics, psychopathology, personality, and genetics. 

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.