PI Karen Schloss received the 2023 Department Teaching Award for important contributions in teaching from the UW-Madison Department of Psychology.
Courses: Information Visualization (Psych 711/601) and Psychology of Perception (Psych 406)
Category: Awards
Zoe Howard and Melina Mueller received an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar (OURS) Award
Congratulations to Zoe Howard and Melina Mueller for receiving an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar (OURS) Award. This award recognizes outstanding undergraduate Psychology majors for their contribution to research in our department. We thank Zoe and Melina for their outstanding work in our lab!
Melina Mueller Awarded a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Melina Mueller for receiving a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, which provides research training and support for undergraduates to undertake their own research project in collaboration with UW–Madison faculty or research/instructional academic staff. This award will support Melina’s honors thesis project investigating the effects of verbal interference on color category extrapolation for learning novel color-concept associations (advised by PI Karen Schloss and graduate student Melissa Schoenlein).
Melina Mueller Awarded Department of Psychology Serendipity Award
Congratulations to Melina Mueller for receiving the UW-Madison Department of Psychology Serendipity Award! The Serendipity Award, funded by Dr. Aris Alexander, recognizes an undergraduate student who has distinguished themselves through hard work, talent, and dedication, drawing the attention of a faculty member in whose lab they work. Thank you Melina for your strong work on research and service in our lab and beyond!
Clementine Zimnicki awarded 2022 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award
Clementine Zimnicki received a 2023 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award to present her work at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Congratulations Clementine!
Presentation title: “Hue variation masks effects of lightness on interpretations of colormap data visualizations”
Kelsey Campbell awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award
Kelsey Campbell was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award from the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This award recognizes outstanding undergraduate Psychology majors for their contribution to research in our department. We thank Kelsey for her outstanding work in our lab!
Congratulations Kelsey, and best of luck with your graduate studies!
Melissa Schoenlein awarded 2022 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award
Melissa Schoenlein received a 2022 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award to present her work at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Talk title: “Color category boundaries predict generalization of color-concept associations”
Congratulations Melissa!
Clementine Zimnicki awarded Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant
Clementine Zimnicki was awarded a Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant from the McPherson Eye Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her project is on understanding factors that influence people’s interpretations of colormap data visualizations. Congrats Clementine!
NSF CAREER award
PI Karen Schloss received an NSF CAREER award to advance the understanding of visual reasoning for visual communication. This research can be translated to producing online tools for designing visualizations, which will improve STEM education and increase public literacy and engagement with science and technology. Our education plan will use visual communication to make science more accessible and engaging through virtual reality (VR) and accompanying hands-on experiences with color and visualization. Click here for more details.
Congrats to Autumn Wickman!
Autumn Wickman received an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award from the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. Congratulations Autumn!