Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Frank Durgin

Elizabeth and Sumner Hayward Professor

Program Coordinator, Cognitive Science

Psychology & Neuroscience

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8678
  2. Singer Hall 204
  3. Singer 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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Kelly Gomez Zimmer

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5048
  2. Old Science Hall 107
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; SCP Replacement, Political Science

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

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

Program Committee

Alan Baker

Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8342
  2. Beardsley Hall 211C
  3. Office Hours: S'26 Tues 1:30pm-2:30pm & Fri 11:00am-12:00pm 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

On Leave - Calendar Year

Biology

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

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

(they-them-their-themselves)

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Engineering

Engineering

Contact

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

Professor

Department Chair, Linguistics

Linguistics

Contact

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

Assistant Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6254
  2. Singer 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

Mathematics & Statistics-Mathematics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6059
  2. Science Center 154

Areas of Research: Applied mathematics, mathematical neuroscience

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Dan Grodner

Associate Professor

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

Division Chair, Natural Sciences & Engineering

Computer Science

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8565
  2. Martin Hall 208

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Lisa Meeden

Affiliated Faculty

Alexander Baugh

Associate Professor

Biology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5243
  2. Singer 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

On Leave - Spring

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8433
  2. Beardsley Hall 212

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

On Leave - Academic Year

Psychology & Neuroscience

Contact

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

Vince Formica

Professor

Department Chair, Biology

Biology

Contact

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

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5709
  2. Singer 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 â€”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 - Spring

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 7
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Brian Metzger

Visiting Assistant Professor

Psychology

Contact

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

Ben Mitchell ’05

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6302
  2. Martin Hall 334

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Ethics

Ben Mitchell

Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice

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 & Neuroscience

Provost Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8674
  2. Singer Hall 208

Office Hours: By email appointment

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Lynne Steuerle Schofield

Professor of Statistics

Department Chair, Mathematics & Statistics

Mathematics & Statistics-Statistics

Contact

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

Area of research: statistics

Lynne Steuerle Schofield

Ameet Soni

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Computer Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6288
  2. Martin Hall 232
  3. Science Center

Machine Learning, Computational Biology

Ameet Soni

Joseph Towles

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8076
  2. Singer Hall 109

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

Provost & Dean of the Faculty

Professor

Provost Office

Computer Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5643
  2. Parrish Hall E228

Natural Language Processing 

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Matt Zucker

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8636
  2. Singer Hall 235
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