Cailin O'Connor earns honorable mention from NSF
Cailin O'Connor earns honorable mention from NSF
- June 1, 2012
- LPS student recognized in nationwide graduate fellowship competition
Cailin O'Connor, a graduate student in LPS, received an honorable mention in the 2011-2012
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship competition. Early graduate
students from all scientific fields, including history and philosophy of science,
may compete for this prestigious and highly selective award. O'Connor's proposed project,
entitled "Signaling in Contiguous States," involved using methods from economics and
biology to explore how organisms simultaneously learn to categorize states of the
world and to communicate with one another about those categories. O'Connor's research
builds on work by UCI Distinguished Professor Brian Skyrms and others that attempts
to understand the evolution of signals.
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