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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Frank Durgin

Elizabeth and Sumner Hayward Professor

Program Coordinator, Cognitive Science

Psychology and Neuroscience

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8678
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 204
  3. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 351

Interests: Human visual cognition and perceptual learning; eye-movements and attention; adaptation; depth perception; representation of number; computer modeling and simulation of cognitive processes.


Office Hours: Students can schedule appointments with Professor Durgin through Google Calendar at: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ3…

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Cheryl Sharp

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110
  3. Trotter Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

Alan Baker

Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8342
  2. Beardsley Hall 211C
  3. Office Hours: F'24 - Monday  and Thursday 1:30 - 2:30pm and by appointment

Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics
Ph.D., Princeton University. 

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Victor Barranca

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics & Statistics-Mathematics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8560
  2. Science Center 139

Area of research: applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience, and network dynamics

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Eva-Maria Collins

Associate Professor

Biology

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5380
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 403
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Maggie Delano

Associate Professor

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8295
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 233
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Theodore Fernald

Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8437
  2. Pearson Hall 117
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Youssef Ezzyat

Assistant Professor

Psychology and Neuroscience

Contact

  1. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 212

Interests: Cognitive neuroscience: human memory and learning; electrophysiological basis of memory; machine learning and computational methods.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
 

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Joshua Goldwyn

Associate Professor of Mathematics

On Leave - Academic Year

Mathematics & Statistics-Mathematics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6059

Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

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Dan Grodner

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Psychology

Psychology

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8436
  2. 220

Interests: Human language understanding: pragmatics and conversational inferencing; sources of linguistic complexity; structural ambiguity resolution.

Office Hours: By email-appointment (dgrodne1)

Daniel Grodner

Lisa Meeden

Neil R. Grabois '57 Professor of Natural Sciences and Engineering

On Leave - Fall

Computer Science

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8565
  2. Science Center 243

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Lisa Meeden

Affiliated Faculty

Alexander Baugh

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5243
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 407

Research: Communication, sexual behavior and individual differences

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Peter Baumann

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Department Chair, Philosophy

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8433
  2. Beardsley Hall 212
  3. Office Hours:  F'24 Tuesday - 1:00-3:00pm and by appointment

Interests:Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy and Contemporary Analytical Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Göttingen.

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Wambura Fobbs

Assistant Professor

Psychology and Neuroscience

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8432
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 206
Wambura Fobbs

Vince Formica

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Biology

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8621
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 405
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Emily Foster-Hanson

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5709
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 214

Interests: I study concepts and cognitive development, from toddlerhood through adulthood. In my research, I ask questions about how people come to think and reason about the world and the different kinds of things in it —from animals and plants, to smartphones, to men and women. My research focuses on topics like concepts and categories, gender development, essentialism, biological reasoning, and social norms.

Office hours: By email appointment

Emily Foster-Hanson

David Harrison

Professor

On Leave - Fall

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 102
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Brian Metzger

Visiting Assistant Professor

Psychology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3575
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 213
Brian Metzger

Ben Mitchell ’05

Visiting Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6302
  2. Science Center 252

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Ethics

Ben Mitchell

Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice

Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8422
  2. Parrish Hall 213
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Cat Norris

Associate Professor

Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs and Research

Psychology and Neuroscience

Provost's Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8674
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 208

Office Hours: By email appointment

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Lynne Steuerle Schofield

(she-her-hers-herself)

Professor of Statistics

On Leave - Academic Year

Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7896
  2. Science Center 148

Area of research: statistics

Lynne Steuerle Schofield

Ameet Soni

Associate Professor

Associate Dean of the Faculty for Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention

Computer Science

Provost's Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6288
  2. Parrish Hall 212
  3. Science Center

Machine Learning, Computational Biology

Ameet Soni

Joseph Towles

Associate Professor

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8076
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 236

AREAS OF INTEREST: Biomechanics and control of human movement. Restoration of function after neurologic and musculoskeletal injury. Engineering education. 

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Jonathan Washington

Associate Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6134
  2. Pearson Hall 105
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Rich Wicentowski

Professor

Computer Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5643
  2. Science Center 251

Natural Language Processing 

Rich Wicentowski

Benjamin Zinszer

Visiting Assistant Professor

Psychology

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6127
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 216

Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, language learning, category representation, bilingualism, statistical learning, computational and neuroimaging methods.

Benjamin Zinszer

Matt Zucker

Associate Professor

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8636
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 235
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