Published: March 15, 2014

 CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Emeritus Tom Landauer passed away recently. He was a professor in the department for several years. His close friend and colleague in the department, Professor Emeritus Lyle E. Bourne, Jr., has written an obituary.

 CU Psychology and Neuroscience Distinguished Professor Linda Watkins (Behavioral Neuroscience) was in the popular press for receiving a patent through the CU Technology Transfer Office (along with campus collaborator Hubert Yin of Chemistry and Biochemistry) for novel drugs. These drugs can be useful as an independent treatment for chronic pain, and can lessen the addictive properties of current opioid narcotics. Read the CU press release about the patent.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience professor Eliana Colunga (Cognitive) has been awarded a grant through CU-Boulder’s Innovative Seed Grant Program (IGP). For more information about this program, see the IGP website.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience professor Irene Blair (Social) was in the news for a recent publication showing that minority patients did not receive differential treatment for hypertension, despite Doctors’ unsconscious biases in favor of whites. Read the CU-Boulder press release about the research, and/or the News Medical news item.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student Dan Gustavson (Cognitive, mentored by Akira Miyake) was in the popular media for some research he and colleagues have done regarding procrastination. Dan is quoted in an article on PBS’s NewsHourwebsite.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience professor (Behavioral Neuroscience) and department chair Theresa Hernández is giving a presentation at CU-Boulder Continuing Education’s “CU on the Weekend” series on Saturday, March 8, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. This is part of a recurring series of free Saturday classes with CU-Boulder faculty sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education. Read more about this series, and check out the flyer for Professor Hernández’s presentation.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate students Jennifer FelderDaniel Johnson, and Ashley Smith Watts (all Clinical) received matches at high-caliber clinical internship sites on the national matching day recently. They will be doing their internships at Duke University Medical School, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, and Alpert Medical School of Brown University, respectively.