February 28th, 2024
Jon Kaas, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair in Social and Natural Sciences
Feb. 28, 2024—Jon Kaas leads a world-renowned neuroscience laboratory that has led to seminal scientific contributions to understand the structure and function of the cerebral cortex. Kaas’s work has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2021 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest recognition conferred by the Society for Neuroscience. Kaas has had a groundbreaking career...
Antonia Kaczkurkin, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Feb. 28, 2024—Antonia Kaczkurkin leads award-winning research on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of internalizing disorders. Her work was recently awarded the prestigious APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, which recognizes researchers who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Kaczkurkin researches the neurobiological mechanisma of how we...
Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology
Feb. 28, 2024—Gordon Logan is a highly distinguished scholar with profound theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of psychology through his seminal studies of attention, skill acquisition, and executive control. He is a foreign associate of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Logan has pioneered the widely influential “stop-signal paradigm” that forces an individual to inhibit...
Advancing Forensic Psychiatry – Lindsey Gilling McIntosh BA’14
Feb. 28, 2024—Lindsey Gilling McIntosh focused on clinical psychology during her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt. Lindsey worked with Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in forensic psychiatry from the University of Edinburgh where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2023, she was awarded the Christopher...
Developing AI-Assisted Patient Treatment – Zachary Cohen BA’09
Feb. 28, 2024—Zachary Cohen completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychology in 2009, taking neuroscience and clinical psychology classes, and went on to complete a doctorate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. After a postdoc period, he accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Arizona in the clinical program, becoming the clinical director....
Lexi von der Lieth BA’24
Feb. 28, 2024—“In the fall of 2022, I joined the Maxcey Memory Lab to participate in undergraduate research. Dr. Maxcey was my General Psychology teacher for the semester, and I reached out to her before classes started, expressing interest in her research. I was excited that there were spots available for me to join the lab, and...
Miles Abney BA’24
Feb. 28, 2024—“For my Immersion project I interned for The Flourishing Center in New York City, which is a company centered around the field of positive psychology. They offer a variety of courses to help train people in applying the science of happiness and flourishing to a variety of professions. For my final project I chose to...