Applied Psychology News and Events

Jasmine Duran has been awarded a Bridge to the Doctorate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations, Jasmine!
Rayka Mohebbi, Stacie Straghn and Takao Sasaki successfully defended their master's theses. Congratulations, gang!

Recent Publications and Presentations
Please welcome our new Office Specialist, Petie Roberts!
Dr. Dee Andrews has been named an Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow. This is the highest honor bestowed upon AFRL scientists and engineers.
Dr. Vaughn Becker was one of three finalists for the research award at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting in Kyoto, Japan.
Dr. Russell Branaghan received a contract from Motorola to study decision making among police officers during high risk situations. The work is in collaboration with John Takamura and Prasad Boradker in Industrial Design.
Dr. Russell Branaghan has been invited to deliver a workshop (with Motorola's Mark Palmer) entitled Hours of Boredom, Moments of Terror at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in San Diego.
Dr. Nancy Cooke and Dr. Eduardo Salas (University of Central Florida) recently published Best of Human Factors: Thirty Classic Contributions to Human Factors/Ergonomics Science and Engineering.
Dr. Nancy Cooke was awarded a one-year grant from the Leonard Wood Institute to support a project on "Harnessing Human IED (Improvised Explosive Device) Emplacement Detection Expertise" in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon and Battelle.
Dr. Nancy Cooke has been invited to deliver the keynote lecture at the Humans Operating Unmanned Systems conference in Brest, France.