| 11/05 |
Proffitt Lab travels to Toronto for Psychonomics 2005 Conference. |
| 8/05 |
Jon Zadra and Sally Linkenauger join the lab as Graduate Students |
| 7/05 |
Dennis Proffitt, Jeanine Stefanucci, and Ben Darling travel to Las Vegas for the 1st Annual Augmented Cognition International conference. |
| 11/04 |
The Proffit Lab attends the annual Psychonomics meeting in Minneapolis. |
| 10/04 |
Ben Darling travels to Atlanta and Chicago with Melody Moore and NovaSol to evaulate the fNIR brain imaging device. |
| 10/04 |
Dennis Proffitt named Commonwealth Professor of Psychology. |
| 9/04 |
The new Proffitt lab space is dedicated as the Cognitive Science Laboratory. |
| 8/04 |
Jonathan Bakdash joins the lab as a graduate student.
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| 8/04 |
Proffitt Lab moves into its new, state of the art lab space in Gilmer 117. |
| 5/04 |
Microsoft and Thomson Learning announce collaboration to provide Tablet PCs to students in Dennis Proffitt's perception class. |
| 11/03 |
Jeanine Stefanucci presents her research with Cedar Reiner at Psychonomics in Vancouver. |
| 8/03 |
Jason Augustyn joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. |
| 8/03 |
Jason Cervenka begins full time position in the lab. |
| 5/03 |
Proffitt Lab attends annual InfoCockpits research retreat on the New River in West Virginia with Carnegie Melon's Stage3 Research Group. |
| 5/03 |
Proffitt Lab grad students present their research at the Vision Sciences conference in Florida. |
| 3/03 |
Virginia.edu publishes an article on Jason Cervenka's research in the InfoCockpit. |
| 3/03 |
Maggie Shiffrar of Rutgers gives a guest lecture on her work with point-light walkers. |
| 3/03 |
The Proffitt Lab attends the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in New York City. |
| 1/03 |
Dennis Proffitt and Evan Rapoport attend the DARPA Augmented Cognition meeting in Hawaii. |
| 10/02 |
Cedar Riener and Shawn O'Hargan attend Presence 2002 conference in Portugal. |
| 10/02 |
Dennis Proffitt gives the James J. Gibson Memorial Lecture in Experimental Psychology at Cornell University. |
| 10/02 |
Dennis Proffitt gives guest lecture at the philosophy department at UVA. |
| 9/02 |
Proffitt Lab attends annual InfoCockpits research retreat in Baltimore with Carnegie Melon's Stage3 Research Group. |
| 9/02 |
Dennis Proffitt and Evan Rapoport meet with philosopher Jerry Fodor in New York City to discuss his book, "The Mind Doesn't Work That Way" |
| 9/02 |
Ben Darling joins the Proffitt Lab as a full time staff member. |
| 7/02 |
Proffitt Lab attends Augmented Cognition conference in Dulles, VA. |
| 6/02 |
Jeanine Stefanucci attends Dartmouth's Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. |
| 5/02 |
Traci Downs receives her PhD and continues her full time work at NovaSol in Hawaii. |
| 4/02 |
Evan Rapoport, Shawn O'Hargan, and Praveen Kathpal accept full time positions in the Proffitt Lab. |
| 4/02 |
Barbara Marino visits from the University of Milan in Italy. |
| 4/02 |
Jason Cervenka wins scholarship for his thesis proposal. |
| 3/02 |
Jessi Witt wins a scholarship for her poster presentation at UVA. |
| 11/01 |
Proffitt Lab attends Perceptive User Interfaces and Psychonomics conferences in Orlando, FL. |
| 8/01 |
Andy Snyder becomes a graduate student at Vanderbilt University. |
| 8/01 |
Proffitt Lab attends Siggraph 2001 (computer graphics conference) in Los Angeles. |
| 5/01 |
Evan Rapoport begins summer research position with lab collaborators, the Stage3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| 8/00 |
Cedar Riener, Jeanine Stefanucci, and Jessi Witt join the Proffitt Lab as graduate students. |
| 7/00 |
Proffitt Lab attends Siggraph 2000 (computer graphics conference) in New Orleans. |
| 5/00 |
Adam Fass of the Stage3 Research Lab at Carnegie Mellon joins the lab for the summer. |
| 5/00 |
Sarah Creem receives her PhD and accepts a faculty position at the University of Utah. |
| 8/99 |
Mackenzie Carpenter goes to UVA Medical School. |
| 5/99 |
Jeanine Stefanucci begins full time research position in the lab. |
| /98 |
The new book, The Barmaid's Brain, features some of our research on naive physics. |
| 9/98 |
This issue of New
Scientist magazine includes some of our research on the two
visual systems in the feature article, Irresistible
Illusions. |
