LIL Faculty Bye and Varma Recieve Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award

Vimal Rao, PhD student in the quantitative methods in education program in the Department of Educational Psychology, Jeffrey Bye, lecturer in the psychological foundations of education program, and Sashank Varma, formerly a professor in the psychological foundations of education program now at Georgia Tech, have been awarded a Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award by the Cognitive Science Society. The trio are receiving the honor for their paper, “Categorical perception of p-values.”

According to CSS, the Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award recognizes the best cognitive science research in disciplines that have been traditionally under-represented at its annual conferences and journals. All submissions must include interdisciplinary perspectives and integrative approaches to understanding the human mind. 

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