Welcome to SLAC (Science of Learning & Art of Communication)
The National Science Foundation has awarded our interdisciplinary group of UConn researchers a five-year grant, “The science of learning, from neurobiology to real-world application: A problem-based approach.” We aim to develop transformative models for graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, training 50 students (including 25 Ph.D. fellows).The “Science of Learning and Art of Communication,” or SLAC, draws on subfields of cognitive science and neuroscience: genetics, behavioral neuroscience, linguistics, education, psychology, and speech-language-hearing sciences. See more
Welcome new SLAC trainees 2020-2021 & 2021-2022
Sarah Asinari, Megan Chiovaro, Joselyn Perez, Jennifer Richardson,
Kara Vlahcevic, Noelle Wig, Emily Yearling, Nathan Lautz (21-22), Hannah Mechtenberg (21-22),
Oliver McNeil (21-22), Maddie Quam (21-22), Anne Marie Crinnion (22-23)


































































































Events
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Mar
10
Neuroscience Journal Club (Palko)12:00pm
Neuroscience Journal Club (Palko)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Other Virtual
Neuroscience Journal Club
Presenter:
Sarah Palko
Yan Lab
Paper to be presented:
Lomoio S, Willen R, Kim W, Ho K., et al. “GGA3 deletion and GGA3 rare variant associated with late onset Alzheimer's disease triggers BACE1 accumulation in axonal swellings". Sci Transl Med. Nov 18; 12(570)
Link to paper:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33208500/Contact Information: gridley@uchc.edu
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Mar
10
Psychology Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Colloquium3:30pm
Psychology Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Colloquium
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus online
Presentations by Rose Presby (BNS); Sinead Sinnott (CLIN); Meaghan Perdue (DEV); Rick Laguerre (I/O); Ben De Bari (PAC); Ladectric Driver (SOC)Contact Information: Merrisa Lin
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Mar
11
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Valle11:00am
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Valle
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other Virtual
Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund
"Remedying Loss of Merlin’s Magic In NF2 Schwannomas."
Presenter:
Cristina Fernandez Valle, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience Division Head
College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Relevant citation:
Review Oncogen 2016 Feb 4;35(5):537-48. doi: 10.1038/onc.2015.125. Epub 2015 Apr 20.
Role of Merlin/NF2 inactivation in tumor biology
A M Petrilli 1, C Fernández-Valle
PMID: 25893302 PMCID: PMC4615258 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2015.125
Citation link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25893302/
Host: Akihiro Ishii, PhD, ishii@uchc.eduContact Information: Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu
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Mar
11
ECOM Spotlight Series: Nadja-Mira Yolcu12:00pm
ECOM Spotlight Series: Nadja-Mira Yolcu
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus WebEx
As a part of ECOM Spotlight Series, Nadja-Mira Yolcu will present her work titled 'Disavowals: A Challenge for Expressivism?' For abstract and WebEx link, please reach out to aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu.Contact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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Mar
12
Logic Colloquium
TBA
Gillian Russell (ACU Melbourne)10:00amLogic Colloquium
TBA
Gillian Russell (ACU Melbourne)Friday, March 12th, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus Zoom
TBAContact Information: Damir Dzhafarov, damir@math.uconn.edu
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Mar
13
23rd Annual Neag School Alumni Awards Celebration5:30pm
23rd Annual Neag School Alumni Awards Celebration
Saturday, March 13th, 2021
05:30 PM - 06:15 PM
Other Online
The Neag School of Education and its Alumni Board are cdelebrate the 2021 Neag School Alumni Awards honorees.
Six outstanding graduates will be formally recognized at the School’s 23rd annual Alumni Awards Celebration, a virtual event.
Read more at https://education.uconn.edu/2021/01/13/announcing-the-2021-neag-school-alumni-awards-honorees/
and register online to join the event at http://s.uconn.edu/NeagAlumni2021Contact Information: neag-communications@uconn.edu
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Mar
15
Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize Submission deadline12:00am
Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize Submission deadline
Monday, March 15th, 2021
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Other virtual
The 2021 Wallace Stevens Student Poetry Prize
Award: $1000 Scholarship
Deadline to enter: March 15, 2021
See attached flyer or link
https://stevenspoetry.org/stevensscholarship.htm
Check Your Eligibility:
Are you?...
a) A junior or senior in high school who resides in the City of Hartford.
-or-
b) A community college student who resides in the City of Hartford.
If you said yes to a or b, you're eligible to enter.
It's easy to enter...
Send your cover sheet* and 3 poems to:
Professor Emeritus Dennis Barone
dbarone@usj.eduContact Information: dbarone@usj.edu
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Mar
17
Neuroscience Journal Club, RIP (Sticco)12:00pm
Neuroscience Journal Club, RIP (Sticco)
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Other Blackboard Link
Neuroscience Journal Club
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Matthew Sticco
Martinelli LabContact Information: David Martinellii, davidmartinelli@uchc.edu & Rosa Guzzo, guzzo@uchc.edu
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Mar
18
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Matsushima11:00am
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Matsushima
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other Virtual
Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund
Presenter:
Glen K. Matsushima, PhD
Associate Professor Microbiology & Immunology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Host: Stephen Crocker, PhD, crocker@uchc.eduContact Information: Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu
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Mar
19
Logic Colloquium
On free logic
Edi Pavlović (Helsinki)11:00amLogic Colloquium
On free logic
Edi Pavlović (Helsinki)Friday, March 19th, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus Zoom
TBA
ZoomContact Information: Damir Dzhafarov, damir@math.uconn.edu
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Mar
22
ELP Virtual Info Session 4:00pm
ELP Virtual Info Session
Monday, March 22nd, 2021
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Other Online
Become a School District Leader!
For Connecticut educators aspiring to advance their careers and become a school district leader, the Executive Leadership Program through UConn’s Neag School of Education offers a one-year program designed to prepare experienced educational leaders to serve as superintendents and/or in other district-level leadership positions. For interested educational leaders, there is now a pathway from the ELP to the Ed.D. program. The pathway will be described in the information session.
Graduates of this program earn an endorsement for the Connecticut (093) Superintendent Certification and acquire the knowledge necessary for successfully meeting the challenges of district leadership in the 21st century.
For more info, visit http://s.uconn.edu/ELPInfoSessionsSpring2021Contact Information: kimberly.shirshac@uconn.edu
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Mar
24
Neuroscience Journal Club, RIP (Hardy)12:00pm
Neuroscience Journal Club, RIP (Hardy)
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Other Blackboard Link
Neuroscience Journal Club
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Cara Hardy
Smith LabContact Information: David Martinellii, davidmartinelli@uchc.edu & Rosa Guzzo, guzzo@uchc.edu
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Mar
24
Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Victor Ferreira3:30pm
Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Victor Ferreira
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus Zoom Meeting
Dr. Victor Ferreira from Department of Psychology of UCSD will be presenting his work.Contact Information: Shu Jiang, shu.2.jiang@uconn.edu
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Happenings
Congratulations to Fumiko Hoeft, Devin Kearns and Roeland Hancock, for their plan to move to large scale evaluation of their free app for school readiness and dyslexia screening in 4- to 8-yr-olds. Information about the A.P.P.R.I.S.E. project is here.
Congratulations to Eiling Yee on her award from the Scholarship Facilitation Fund for research on Conceptual Convergence in the Context of COVID-19.
Congratulations to Megan Chiovaro, with her work on collective intelligence in bees (Adv: Paxton). This was featured in UConn Today.
Congratulations to Noelle Wig, who just had her first authored paper published! Ms. Wig’s publication is entitled “Matching the Mismatch: The interaction between perceptual and conceptual cues in bilinguals’ speech perception”.
Congratulations to Letty Naigles and Bede Agocha for the grant from CLAS to develop a new course called “Language and Racism,” which is a collaboration between the Cognitive Science program and the Africana Studies Institute.
Congratulations to Nicole Landi who received a new NIH R01 grant “Effectiveness and Predictors of Response for a Technology-based Reading Intervention in the Home,” with co-PI Mike Milham and investigators Fumiko Hoeft and Ken Pugh.
Congratulations to Alex Paxton, who with J. Dixon have an article in UConn Today, which summarizes a recent paper of theirs in PNAS (with Wim Pouw and Steven Harrison):
Congratulations to Alex Paxton who received a Scholarship Facilitation Fund award for her application “Ad hoc Efforts for Advancing Data Science Education.”
Congratulations to Fumiko Hoeft who received a $3.5M grant to the UCSF Dyslexia Center and will develop a subcontract from UCSF to UConn
Congratulations to Eiling Yee for her paper in Psychological Science - see article about it in UConn Today
Congratulations to Fumiko Hoeft for her NSF Award “Assessing and preventing the detrimental impact of literacy acquisition during COVID-19-related school closure" - see article in UConn Today
Congratulations to Stormy Chamberlain on her 3M NIH Prader-Willi grant
Congratulations to Betsy McCoach on her National Center for Research on Gifted Education grant
Congratulations to Ashley Parker on her prestigious award from the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation -- The Student Research Grant in Audiology. The title of the project is “The Inner-Ear protein Prestin as a Biomarker of Hearing Loss."
Spring 2021 SLAC Courses
LING 5010 or PSYC 5500 Research Seminar in Language and Cognition, Rachel Theodore & William Snyder, Talk-Shop, Mondays 12:20-1:10, virtual
PSYC 5170-002 (topic: SLAC professional development), James Magnuson, 1 credit, Fridays, 1:30-2:30 pm, virtual
PSYC 5170-004 (topic: SLAC Practicum), James Magnuson, 3 credits, Fridays 10-12:00 pm, virtual
PSYC 5170 - 005 Current Topics in Psychology 'Science Outreach', Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, virtual
See Curriculum for more information