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.
Melissa’s students especially appreciated how she facilitated discussion in an open, inclusive class environment. One student wrote, “Melissa’s passion for the material was salient. Yet, even when it was clear that she could go on about a topic for hours, she stepped back and let us drive the conversation with her guidance.” Another student commented, “Melissa did a great job of creating a space where people wanted to share their thoughts and opinions. There were rarely pauses because everyone actively wanted to share commentary.” Congratulations Melissa!
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!
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!
Kelsey Campbell was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award from the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.