2008 APA Awards

Department of Psychology at UC Santa Barbara

Michael Gazzaniga and Richard Mayer receive 2008 APA awards

Michael Gazzaniga is the recipient of a 2008 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association. The award honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in Psychology. Mike has also been invited to present the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2009.

Richard Mayer has received the American Psychological Association’s 2008 award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training. This award recognizes a psychologist for evidence-based applications of psychology to education and training.

Drs. Gazzaniga and Mayer will receive their awards at the APA annual convention in Boston in August 2008

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