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Young Investigator Awards in Cognitive Neuroscience
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Young Investigator Awards in Cognitive Neuroscience for the 2009 year. The aim of the awards is to recognize the outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers. Two awardees will be named by the Awards Committee, and will be honored at CNS's 16th annual meeting in San Francisco, CA in March 2009. Each award includes $500 US to be used by the awardees toward travel costs to the meeting, or for any other purpose.
Eligibility:
For the 2009 awards, the nominee MUST be:
Working in any area of cognitive neuroscience (broadly defined). No more than 10 years from the receipt of their doctoral degree as of January 1, 2009 (i.e., doctoral degree awarded on or after January 1999). Consideration will be given to applicants who have taken an institutionally approved childbearing or parental leave (2 year limit). Documentation from the appropriate department head, university or institutional official is required with the application in order for eligibility to be determined based on time since receiving the doctoral degree.
Nominated by another individual (no self nominations will be accepted).
In attendance at the 2009 meeting to accept the award in person and must agree to give a special lecture.
To submit your online nomination, login into your member account at
https://cogneurosociety.org/content/membership
ONLINE SUBMISSIONS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED.
Submission deadline: Oct. 16,2009
Previous Winners of the Young Investigator Awards
- 2008
- Charan Ranganath, Ph.D., University of California Davis
- Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D, Columbia University & Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2007
- Silvia A. Bunge, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- Steven Laureys, MD, Ph.D., University of Liège
- 2006
- Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University
- Alumit Ishai, University of Zurich
- 2005
- Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
- Kevin LaBar, Duke University
- 2004
- Anthony Wagner, Ph.D., Stanford University
- Eleanor Maguire, Ph.D., University College London
- 2003
- Roberto Cabeza, Ph.D., Duke University
- Sharon Thompson-Schill, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- 2002
- Isabel Gauthier, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
- Randy Buckner, Ph.D., Washington University Saint Louis
