Dr. Melissa Schoenlein defended her dissertation on Effects of color category structure on learning and generalization of color-concept associations for novel concepts. Now, Melissa is off to start a faculty position in Psychology at High Point University!
Congratulations Melissa! We are so incredibly proud of you and excited for you to start this next exciting step in your career!
Photo: Melissa Schoenlein and PhD Advisor Karen Schloss (front row); Dissertation Committee Members Haley Vlach, Tim Rogers, Jenny Saffran (back row)
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Melissa Schoenlein was awarded a 2023-2024 UW-Madison Capstone Teaching Award for her course Psychology of Information Visualization (Spring 2023)! This award recognizes dissertators at the end of their graduate program with an outstanding teaching record over the course of their UW–Madison tenure.
Melina Mueller received a UW–Madison Department of Psychology Spring Undergraduate Travel Award to present her research at the 2024 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society:
Congratulations to Zoe Howard for receiving a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship! This fellowship 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 Zoe’s honors thesis project investigating the effects of texture enlargements on texture semantics for scaled data visualizations.
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PI Karen Schloss received the 2023 Department Teaching Award for important contributions in teaching from the UW-Madison Department of Psychology.
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!
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).
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!