Category: Awards

Brianne Sherman received a Welton Sophomore Honors Summer Apprenticeship to support her summer research studying the effects of object recognition on color perception.  We are excited to have Bri in the lab!

Congrats to Melissa Schoenlein, Shannon Sibrel, and Karen Schloss for receiving awards to present their research at the 2019 annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Melissa Schoenlein: McPherson Eye Research Institute Walsh Research Travel Award

Shannon Sibrel: UW-Madison Psychology Department Undergraduate Travel Award

Karen Schloss: Vision Sciences Society National Eye Institute Travel Grant

Our paper “Mapping color to meaning in colormap data visualizations” was awarded  honorable mention for Best Paper at InfoVis 2018!

In the photo: Petra Isenberg (InfoVis Paper Chair), Karen Schloss, Tim Dwyer (InfoVis Paper Chair).

Co-authors not in the photo: Connor Gramazio, A. Taylor Silverman, Madeline Parker, and Audrey Wang.

Katie Foley received a UW – Madison Department of Psychology Spring Undergraduate Travel Award to present her research at the 2018 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society:

Interpreting color-coding systems: the effects of concept activation on color inference
By Kathleen Foley, Laurent Lessard, Karen B. Schloss

The Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison honored Shannon Sibrel with a 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for her work in our lab. Congratulations, Shannon!

Chris Racey’s presentation at the at the 9th Annual McPherson Eye Research Institute (MERI) Vision Science Poster Session received honorable mention for the Vision Science Poster Award. His poster was entitled “Color naming fluency does not explain color preferences when chroma is controlled.” Congratulations Chris!

The Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison honored Katie Foley with the 2017 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for her work in our lab. Congratulations Katie, we are so excited for you!