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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Jan
20
Letters About Literature Submission Deadline12:00am
Letters About Literature Submission Deadline
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Other Electronic submission
Letters About Literature is a student writing contest for grades 4-12. Students are asked to read a book, poem, or speech and write a letter to that author (living or dead) about how the text affected them personally.Contact Information: Kiedra Taylor, cwp@uconn.edu
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Jan
20
Neuroscience Journal Club - Xiong12:00pm
Neuroscience Journal Club - Xiong
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Other Blackboard Link
Neuroscience Journal Club
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
"Molecular underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease: a path to new therapies”.
Presenter:
Yulan Xiong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CTContact Information: David Martinellii, davidmartinelli@uchc.edu & Rosa Guzzo, guzzo@uchc.edu
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Jan
21
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Zahorik11:00am
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Zahorik
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other Virtual
Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund
Title: “New approaches to understanding human auditory perception and performance in reverberant sound fields.”
Presenter: Pavel Zahorik, PhD
Associate Professor Heuser Hearing Research Endowed Chair, Dept. of Psychological and Brain University of Louisville, KY
Relevant citation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31075611/
Host: Leslie Bernstein, PhD, bernstein@uchc.eduContact Information: Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu
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Jan
21
The Future Of Climate And Environmental Policy With Attorney General William Tong12:30pm
The Future Of Climate And Environmental Policy With Attorney General William Tong
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Virtual Event
Join Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and the University of Connecticut for a discussion of the future of environmental law under the new Biden administration as well as the leadership role of states in our national climate dialogue.
Virtual Event link: https://totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VOFF&id=uconn&date=2021-01-21&seq=1
Sponsored by UConn Reads and the Center for Energy and Environmental Law.Contact Information: uconnreads.uconn.edu
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Jan
25
Connecticut Student Writers magazine submission deadline12:00am
Connecticut Student Writers magazine submission deadline
Monday, January 25th, 2021
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Other Electronic submissions
The Connecticut Writing Project (CWP) sponsors Connecticut Student Writers, a magazine established in 1987 by the CWP to honor excellence in writing by students from kindergarten through high school.Contact Information: Kiedra Taylor, cwp@uconn.edu
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Jan
25
UCAPP Info Session - FULL6:00pm
UCAPP Info Session - FULL
Monday, January 25th, 2021
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Other Virtual
For Connecticut educators aspiring to advance their careers and serve in roles as assistant principals, principals, or district-level administrators, the University of Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (UCAPP) offers an educational leadership program through the Neag School of Education designed to prepare qualified and capable school leaders for all Connecticut schools.
Graduates are awarded a Sixth-Year Diploma in educational administration and are eligible for the (092) certification endorsement as an intermediate administrator in the state of Connecticut.
To RSVP, visit http://s.uconn.edu/UCAPPInfoSessionsSpring2021Contact Information: joanne.manginelli@uconn.edu
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Jan
27
Neuroscience Journal Club - Miles12:00pm
Neuroscience Journal Club - Miles
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Other Blackboard Link
Neuroscience Journal Club
Christina Miles
Smith LabContact Information: David Martinellii, davidmartinelli@uchc.edu & Rosa Guzzo, guzzo@uchc.edu
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Jan
27
ELP Virtual Info Session 4:00pm
ELP Virtual Info Session
Wednesday, January 27th, 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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Jan
27
UCAPP Info Session 6:00pm
UCAPP Info Session
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Other Virtual
For Connecticut educators aspiring to advance their careers and serve in roles as assistant principals, principals, or district-level administrators, the University of Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (UCAPP) offers an educational leadership program through the Neag School of Education designed to prepare qualified and capable school leaders for all Connecticut schools.
Graduates are awarded a Sixth-Year Diploma in educational administration and are eligible for the (092) certification endorsement as an intermediate administrator in the state of Connecticut.
To RSVP, visit http://s.uconn.edu/UCAPPInfoSessionsSpring2021Contact Information: joanne.manginelli@uconn.edu
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Jan
28
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Yan11:00am
Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series - Yan
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other Virtual
Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund
Presenter:
Dong Yan, PhD
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Duke University, Durham, NC
Host: Bojun Chen, PhD, bochen@uchc.eduContact Information: Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu
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Feb
3
Neuroscience Journal Club - Ragan12:00pm
Neuroscience Journal Club - Ragan
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Other Blackboard Link
Neuroscience Journal Club
Michal Ragan
Wang LabContact Information: David Martinellii, davidmartinelli@uchc.edu & Rosa Guzzo, guzzo@uchc.edu
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Feb
3
UCAPP Info Session 6:00pm
UCAPP Info Session
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Other Virtual
For Connecticut educators aspiring to advance their careers and serve in roles as assistant principals, principals, or district-level administrators, the University of Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (UCAPP) offers an educational leadership program through the Neag School of Education designed to prepare qualified and capable school leaders for all Connecticut schools.
Graduates are awarded a Sixth-Year Diploma in educational administration and are eligible for the (092) certification endorsement as an intermediate administrator in the state of Connecticut.
To RSVP, visit http://s.uconn.edu/UCAPPInfoSessionsSpring2021Contact Information: joanne.manginelli@uconn.edu
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Happenings
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.
See Curriculum for more information