Psych alum Effie Kapnoula wins ESCoP Early Career Publication Award

Monday, November 14, 2016

Effie Kapnoula
Efthymia Kapnoula

University of Iowa alumna Efthymia (Effie) Kapnoula has received the 2016 European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) Early Career Publication Award.

The award is given for the best article accepted for publication in 2015, while the awardee was a PhD student or within a year of receipt of the PhD. Kapnoula’s ESCoP award recognizes a paper she wrote with Psychology Professor Bob McMurray. The paper, “Training Alters the Resolution of Lexical Interference: Evidence for Plasticity of Competition and Inhibition,” was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology this year.

Kapnoula completed her PhD from the UI in 2016 under the supervision of Professor McMurray in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

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.