The University published a recap of the top reserach stores, iInnovations and world-changing ideas produced by Longhorns across all disciplines this year. Dr. Alex Huth's reserach developing a non-invasive brain-machine interface that can decode brain activity into language was one of the highlights!
Dr. Michael Drew was elected to full member stats in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ANCP).
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology is an international organization of leading brain scientists. Sceintists are selected for membershipon the basis of their original research contributions, and are drawn from diverse subfields of neuroscience, including behavioral pharmacology, clinical psychopharmacology, epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, neurophysiology, neurology,
Dr. Williamson was recently awarded the Early Career Contributions to Couple Relationships Award by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Couples Special Interest Group, which was presented (in absentia) at the ABCT annual conference in Seattle last week. Congratulations!
Dr. Williamson has a new paper in press at the Journal of Marriage and Family which discusses methods that family science researchers can use to improve the samples they use in their research. This manuscript was an invited contribution to JMF's Mid-Decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods, which will be released in Feb 2025.
This past weekend Dr. Williamson attended the Fulbright Mediterranean Research Seminar in Alicante, Spain. Fulbright Scholars who are conducting research in Mediterranean countries across all disciplines were in attendance. Dr. Williamson presented preliminary results from research conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the Universidad de Granada examining the impact of close relationships on health and well-being in Spain and the U.S.
Dr. Thibaud Taileefumier was among the 17 junior facluty selected from across the University to participate in the Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars interdisciplinary mentorship program.
The Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars program augments traditional, within-department faculty mentoring at UT by facilitating 1:1 mentor-mentee pairing across departments, or even across colleges. This program offers a 1 year scholarship for junior faculty to engage with mentors to work on a range of activities, including proposals for external funding, scholarly
LCID Faculty member Vernita Gordon, Associate Professor of Physics, was recently selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society. Gordon was recognized “for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the role of physical properties in the development of bacterial biofilms and the interactions of biofilms with the immune system,” according to the APS website.
The Williamson Lab has a new paper in press at the journal Family Relations which examines whether treatment outcomes for relationship education differ by level of pre-treatment relationship functioning. Using data from ~1600 low-income couples who participated in an RCT of
