Dr. Janet F. Werker Awarded the 2018 Killam Prize
The Director of our Centre has been awarded the Killam Prize in the Social Sciences by the Canada Council for the Arts.
NSF & Killam Fellow: Dr. Maria Arredondo
Maria, a Killam Fellow, has just been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from NSF to study bilingual infants’ language acquisition and attention.
Blog: Interview with Dr. Janet F. Werker on Language Acquisition
The Blog on Learning & Development (BOLD) recently interviewed the Director of our Centre; click here to read the full article on how “Babies Brains are Equipped to Handle More Than One Language”.
Riley & Mary are Undergraduate Summer Research Awardees!
Riley Bizzotto and Mary Zhao have been awarded an NSERC USRA and Quinn USRA, respectively, so they will be working with us full-time this summer!
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: Dr. Drew Weatherhead
Drew has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from SSHRC to investigate the foundations of language-group preferences in early childhood.
PetSmart Charities Thought Innovator Award: Dr. Nicole Sugden
Nicole received the Thought Innovator Award from PetSmart Charities of Canada, which includes funding to study the influence of pet dogs on infants’ language and socio-communicative development.
Two of Our RAs are Bound for Graduate School
Maegan Mitchell and Erin Stadnyk will begin grad programs in Developmental Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, respectively, in September 2018. We couldn’t be more proud of them!