{"id":1715,"date":"2025-03-10T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:21:57","slug":"conor-smithson-wins-provosts-pathbreaking-discovery-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/03\/10\/conor-smithson-wins-provosts-pathbreaking-discovery-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Smithson wins Provost\u2019s Pathbreaking Discovery Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Conor Smithson wins Provost&#8217;s Pathbreaking Discovery Award<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1716 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/07172305\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-25-at-4.40.48-PM-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/07172305\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-25-at-4.40.48-PM-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/07172305\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-25-at-4.40.48-PM-768x681.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/07172305\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-25-at-4.40.48-PM.png 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">This premier award is from the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Dean of the Graduate School. This award celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship. <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">This award celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_e2ma-style\">Conor won it based on his outstanding publication in Annual Review of Psychology. Annual Review in Psychology holds the #1 ranking in both &#8220;Psychology (Science)&#8221; and &#8220;Psychology, Multidisciplinary (Social Science)&#8221; categories, with a 2023 impact factor of 23.6. Notably, this article is an expansion of the written portion of his Qualifying exam (MAP). This is a great example for our graduate students on how the MAP can represent a novel and significant contribution to the field.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor Smithson wins Provost&#8217;s Pathbreaking Discovery Award This premier award is from the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Dean of the Graduate School. This award celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship. This award celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[3],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/10171854\/Screenshot-2025-03-10-121820.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}