Distinguished Professor Judith Kroll wins Psychonomic Society Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award
The Psychonomic Society awarded Distinguished Professor Judith Kroll the Clifford T. Morgan
Distinguished Leadership Award, given to those who have spent more than 10 years dedicated to research revolving around the study of cognitive psychology and have demonstrated leadership and service to their studies. “I feel honored and touched to have won,” Kroll said. “Working with colleagues to take your research and training and place it in a context that might make a difference is an honor.” Kroll earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from New York University and completed her master’s and doctoral degrees in Cognitive Psychology at Brandeis University. Prior to joining the UCI School of Education in July, Kroll served as faculty at Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, Mount Holyoke College, Penn State University, University of California, Riverside, and the UCI School of Social Sciences. |
Kroll’s research uses the tools of cognitive neuroscience to examine the way that bilinguals and language learners juggle the presence of two languages in one mind and brain. Her work, which has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, shows that bilingualism provides a tool for revealing the interplay between language and cognition that is otherwise obscure in speakers of one language alone.
Kroll is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psychological Association, the American Physiological Society, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was one of the founding editors of the journal, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), and one of the founding organizers of Women in Cognitive Science, a group – supported by the NSF - developed to promote the advancement of women in the cognitive sciences.
Together with colleagues at Penn State University, she is a principal investigator on a Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant from the NSF to develop an international research network and program of training to enable language scientists at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral) to pursue research abroad on the science of language learning and bilingualism. During the pandemic, this international training opportunity was reinvented to be virtual and to enable students at UCI to form collaborations with laboratories abroad in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Kroll said that the opportunities at the UCI School of Education are amazing and unique, and hopes that students take advantage of the environment.
“UCI is a place where people care about how their research has meaning in the world, and where we address issues of social injustice and issues of understanding learners who have been misunderstood in the past,” Kroll said.
The international community of cognitive psychologists recognizes the Psychonomic Society as the preeminent society for the experimental study of cognition. Since it was formed nearly 60 years ago, the Society has grown to over 5,600 scientists. The mission of the Psychonomic Society is to foster the science of cognition through the advancement and communication of basic research in experimental psychology and allied sciences.
Winners of the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award will be formally recognized at the Psychonomic Society Business Meeting at the society’s Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2021.
Kroll is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psychological Association, the American Physiological Society, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was one of the founding editors of the journal, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), and one of the founding organizers of Women in Cognitive Science, a group – supported by the NSF - developed to promote the advancement of women in the cognitive sciences.
Together with colleagues at Penn State University, she is a principal investigator on a Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant from the NSF to develop an international research network and program of training to enable language scientists at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral) to pursue research abroad on the science of language learning and bilingualism. During the pandemic, this international training opportunity was reinvented to be virtual and to enable students at UCI to form collaborations with laboratories abroad in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Kroll said that the opportunities at the UCI School of Education are amazing and unique, and hopes that students take advantage of the environment.
“UCI is a place where people care about how their research has meaning in the world, and where we address issues of social injustice and issues of understanding learners who have been misunderstood in the past,” Kroll said.
The international community of cognitive psychologists recognizes the Psychonomic Society as the preeminent society for the experimental study of cognition. Since it was formed nearly 60 years ago, the Society has grown to over 5,600 scientists. The mission of the Psychonomic Society is to foster the science of cognition through the advancement and communication of basic research in experimental psychology and allied sciences.
Winners of the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award will be formally recognized at the Psychonomic Society Business Meeting at the society’s Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2021.