Carnegie Mellon University

Awards

Faculty Awards

  • 2016 - NAS Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Science
  • 2013 - APS William James Lifetime Achievement Award for Basic Research
  • 2011 - Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
  • 2006 - Dr. A.H. Heineken prize for Cognitive Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Howard Crosby Warren Medal for outstanding achievement in Experimental Psychology, Society of Experimental Psychology
  • 2004 - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition
  • 1999 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - APA Distinguished Scientific Career Award
  • 1989 - Research Scientist Award, NIMH
  • 1978 - American Psychological Assoc. Early Career Award
  • 2020 - Vision Sciences Society's Davida Teller Award
  • 2020 - Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • 2019 - Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (induction November, Boston)
  • 2019 - Rita G. Rudel/Lucy G. Moses Award and Lecture, Columbia University New York
  • 2018 - William E. Brown Outstanding MSTP Mentor Award, U. of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon U.
  • 2017 - Faculty Member Award for Neuroscience, F1000
  • 2017 - Inspiring Women in Science Award, Brown University
  • 2016 - Ladies Hospital Aid Society Pittsburgh, Distinguished Educator award
  • 2016 - Certificate for highly cited research, Vision Research
  • 2015 - Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow, Cognitive Science Society
  • 2014 - Certificate for Excellence in reviewing, Elsevier Press (Neuropsychologia)
  • 2012 - Elected Fellow of Eastern Psychological Association
  • 2010 - Academic expert for GoCognitive Video series (http://vimeo.com/8697643)
  • 2008 - Member, Society of Experimental Psychologists (Prestigious academic society)
  • 2006 - Recipient, Justine and Yves Sergent Award, University of Montreal
  • 2006 - Fellow, American Psychological Society
  • 2004 - Member of Western delegation in residence with Dalai Lama (Multiple day Scientific Exchange between Eastern monks and Western scientists)
  • 2001 - APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
  • 2000-01 - Weston Visiting Professorship, Dept. Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, Israel
  • 2000-01 - James McKeen Cattell award for sabbatical support
  • 1999 - Presidential Early Career Award in Science & Engineering (PECASE)
  • 1998 - Early career award in Neuropsychology (Div. 40), American Psychological Foundation; Finalist, McDonnell Centennial Fellowship Award
  • 1995-00 - National Institutes of Mental Health, FIRST award
  • 1993-98 - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Women Faculty Award, Canada (declined)
  • 1992-97 Medical Research Council of Canada Scholarship. Voluntarily terminated 1994
  • 1987 - Ontario Ministry of Health, Research Personnel Development Scholarship
  • 1987-98 - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies
  • 1995 - Ontario, Speech Language and Hearing Assoc. Founders' Award for best paper at OSLA Convention
  • 1984-85 - Isie Smuts Fellowship Award awarded by the South African Assoc. of University Women (Nov ‘84- March ‘85)
  • 1984-85 - British Council scholarship to further academic studies in Britain
  • 1982 - Most distinguished woman graduate of the year, University of the Witwatersrand; Pierre de V Pienaar Prize for top graduate in B.A. (Speech and Hearing Therapy)
  • 1982 - Philips' Medal for the most outstanding graduate in Speech Patho
  • 2017 - TIME Person of the Year (The Silence Breakers, shared)
  • 2016 - Science News, 10 Scientists to Watch, Society for Science & the Public
  • 2013 - Cowan Young Investigator, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2018 - Who’s Who in America (14th consecutive year)

  • 2018 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Psychosomatic Society

  • 2008 - Senior Investigator Award, American Psychological Association

  • 2006 - Patricia R. Bachas Award for significant contributions to the study of the impact of social behavior on physiology, American Psychosomatic Society.

  • 2004 - Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

  • 2004 - Distinguished Scientific Contribution award, American Psychological Association

  • 2002 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for distinguished achievements in psychological science

  • 2000 - British Psychological Society Visiting Fellow

  • 1997 - Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, American Psychological Association

  • 2017 - Fellow, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research
  • 2017 - Herbert Weiner Early Career Award, Am. Psychosomatic Society
  • 2015 - Social Personality Health Network Early Career Award
  • 2014 - Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
  • 2012 - Fellow, Mind and Life Institute
  • 2011 - “Rising Star” Assoc for Psychological Science
  • 2019 - “Rising Star” Assoc for Psychological Science
  • 2014 - Fellow, Society of Personality and Social Psychology
  • 2014 - Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2009 - Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
  • 2017 - Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • 2008 - Diabetes Lifescan Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine
  • 2008 - Fellow, Society of Behavioral Medicine
  • 2017 - Nu Rho Psi, National Honor Society in Neuroscience

  • 2015 - James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award

  • 2013 - Troland Research Award, NAS

  • 2011 - Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

  • 2008 - Virginia W. Toomey Award in Auditory Science

  • 2007 - Assoc for Psychological Science “Rising Star” in Psychology

  • 2002 - Evie and Ron Krancer Award in Auditory Science

  • 2002 - Dennis Klatt Research in Speech Science Award American Speech Language and

    Hearing Assoc

  • 2002 - 21st century Scientist Award – Bridging Mind, Brain & Behavior, James S. McDonnell Foundation 2002-2006

  • 1999 - Acoustical Society Young Investigator Award, Acoustical Soc of America

  • 2000 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2019 - Association for Psychological Science (APS) James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award
  • 2018  - Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2018 - Fellow, IEEE
  • Fellow, American Assoc for Advancement of Science
  • Fellow American Psychological Assoc, Divs 1, 3
  • Charter Fellow, Assoc for Psychological Science
  • Fellow, Cognitive Science Soc
  • Fellow, Psychonomic Society
  • Honorary Ambassador, Technical Univ of Munich
  • Honorary Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Technical Univ of Munich Inst for Advanced Study
  • 2010 - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award
  • 2010 - Kurt Koffka Medal, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany
  • 2020 - Sigma Xi, CAPCSD Distinguished Contribution Award

  • 2018 - Included as one of the most influential 30 living figures in Cognitive Psychology

  • 2018 - Honors recognition from FABBS

  • 2016 - Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan Normal University

  • 2010 - Honorary doctorate, University of Southern Denmark

  • 1987 - Fellow, Center for Advanced Research

  • 2020 - American Psychological Assoc (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, human cognition and learning

  • 2016 - Selected for Emerging Women Leadership Program sponsored by the Office of Women in Science

  • 2013 - American Psychological Assoc (APA) New Investigator Award

  • 2016 - Elected to Nu Rho Psi (National Honor Society in Neuroscience)

  • 2003 - Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences

  • 2011 - Association for Psychological Science Fellow

  • 2004 - ISIS Young Investigator Award

  • 2017 - Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2005 - Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2001 - Fellow, Assoc for Advancement of Science
  • 1999 - Fellow, American Psychological Association
  • Fellow, American Psychological Assoc.

  • Fellow, American Psychological Society

  • 2018 - APA’s 2018 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (with Charles S. Carver)

  • 2014 - Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the International Society for Research in Self and Identity (with Charles S. Carver)

  • 2000 - Fellow, Society of Behavioral Medicine

  • 2007 - Donald T. Campbell Award for distinguished contributions to social psychology, American Psychological Association (with Charles S. Caver)

  • 2019 - Recipient of Helmholtz Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Psychological and

    Physiological Acoustics and Speech Communication

  • 2016 - Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

  • 2009 - Fellow Acoustical Society of America

  • 2008 - Associate Member, National Research Council of the National Academies of Science

  • 2017 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  • 2011 - Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists

  • 2008 - NIH EUREKA award

  • 2007 - Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2005 - Fellow, American Psychological Society

  • 2003 - Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences

  • 1997 - American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, cognition/human learning

  • 2017 - World Economic Forum Young Scientist

  • 2014 - PROSE Book Award in Biomedicine and Neuroscience

  • 2013 - Distinguished Alumni Award, Univ of New Mexico

  • 2008 - Swartz Foundation Fellowship Theoretical Neurobiology (2008-09)

  • 2006 - Time Magazine Person of the Year (shared)

  • 2017 - James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award