News & Announcements Archive

Congratulations to Chris Honey, Kishore Kuchibhotla, and Patricia Janak on their 2024 Discovery Awards!

Kishore and Chris will be working with Adam Charles from the Engineering department and Maya Opendak from the department of Neuroscience on their project, The Neural Basis of Continual Learning […]

Assistant Professor Janice Chen featured in the Baltimore Sun

Assistant Professor Janice Chen featured in the Baltimore Sun

Read the latest Baltimore Sun article to learn more about the contest and the Chen lab’s research into episodic memory. Her students Samira Tavassoli and Iris Lee are also featured […]

Passing of a beloved colleague: Professor Susan Courtney

Passing of a beloved colleague: Professor Susan Courtney

Susan Courtney passed away suddenly last month and is survived by her loving husband Hamid and her two children, Serena and Siraj. Her obituary is available on the JHU Hub, […]

Call for submissions: fMRI Writing Prize!

The JHU Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences & The Hopkins Review in The Writing Seminars at JHU are hosting a flash fiction contest for Baltimore writers and seeking submissions! […]

Congratulations to Chris Krupenye on his APA Distinguished Scientific Award!

Dr. Krupenye received an Early Career Contribution to Psychology award for his work in animal learning and behavior. Read the official announcement on the American Psychological Association’s website. The Early […]

Assistant Professor Chris Krupenye featured in National Geographic

Assistant Professor Chris Krupenye featured in National Geographic

Assistant Professor Chris Krupenye and his collaborator Laura Lewis were recently featured in National Geographic for their work on how bonobos and chimpanzees remember fellow animals. Check out their paper […]

Congrats to Dr. Chaz Firestone, Sholei Croom, and Hanbei Zhou on their publication in PNAS!

When Johns Hopkins researchers asked hundreds of people to watch other people shake boxes, it took just seconds for almost all of them to figure out what the shaking was […]

Welcome to our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Shari Liu!

Welcome to our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Shari Liu!

Her lab page can be found at https://www.liulaboratory.org/

Faculty members and graduate student featured in the New York Times

Faculty members Ian Phillips and Chaz Firestone and graduate student Rui Zhe Goh had their article “The Perception of Silence” was recently featured in the New York Times. The article […]

Dr. Cynthia Moss Named as A 2023-2024 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Dr. Cynthia Moss Named as A 2023-2024 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Moss as she has been named as a 2023-2024 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. Each year, top scholars in the liberal arts and sciences are selected […]