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Dr. Robin Andresen, along with Pam Cook and Heather Doty, has been awarded funding from the President’s Diversity Initiative. Their project will extend the work of their NSF-funded ADVANCE grant to improve the climate for underrepresented faculty in STEM departments (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Sam Gaertner, Department of Psychology, a national leader in the study of unintended bias, is also collaborating on this project. Read the UDaily article here!

 PhD candidate Anne Peng has received a U.S. Student Fulbright research grant for 2012-2013 to Indonesia. Her goal is to collect and transcribe naturalistic recordings of Indonesian Teochew, an unstudied
Chinese language spoken by the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. The naturalistic data will allow her to further examine the syntax of Indonesian Teochew which has been influenced by the surrounding unrelated Malay languages. The UDaily article is here.

Anne Peng is advised by Dr. Peter Cole.

Kelsey Lucca, who graduated from the undergraduate Cognitive Science program in Fall 2011, will be working at Duke University's The Wilbourn Infant Lab with Dr. Makeba Wilbourn, studying the role of gestures in communication. After her first year there, she will also start collaborating on projects with Dr. Brian Hare on gestural communication in nonhuman primates! Congratulations Kelsey!