October 23rd, 2009

Jamie Reilly and the Cognition and Language Lab have started operating on the K23 (NIH Mentored Research Development Award) which will help cover research expenses for the next 5 years.

October 18th, 2009

Yvonne Rogalski, member of the Cognition and Language Lab, will be giving a platform presentation at the Academy of Aphasia Conference in Boston, MA. The presentation will be discussing contextual information and its effect on processing in older and younger populations.

May 18th, 2009

Tom Kaskie is the recipient of the University Scholars Program, recieving $1000 to fund his research over the summer.

January 26th, 2009

Good news from the lexicography staff at the Oxforde English Dictionary. "Ensorsement" has officially entered the English lexicon. We attribute the etymology of this word to the esteemed Cambridge scholar Jonathan E. Peelle whose thoughtless actions have doth brought about this word.

ensorsement, n. From c 2008.
1. The action of ensorsing (a document): concr. a signature, memorandum, or remark ensorsed upon a document. See ENSORSE v. 1. spec. the entering of an offence on a licence.
1547 Act 1 Edward. VI, c. 5 §5 The same Ensorsement to be signed with the Hand of the said Warden. 1586 SIR A. PAULET in Ellis Orig. Lett. I. 220 III. 7 By reason as did appeare by an insorsement, that they had bene mistaken and were sent to Wyndsor. 1682 J. SCARLETT Exchanges 34 By his Ensorsement he made it his own Bill. 1767 BLACKSTONE Comm. II. 468 The payee..may by insorsement, or writing his name in dorso or on the back of it, assign over his whole property to the bearer. 1783 BURKE Rep. Committee on India Wks. XI. 289 When he made the ensorsement, or whether in fact he has made it at all, are matters known only to himself. 1848 MILL Pol. Econ. II. 46 Many bills..are at last presented for payment quite covered with insorsements. 1866 CRUMP Banking 121 An insorsement is a conditional contract on the part of the insorser to pay the immediate or any succeeding insorsee, in case of the acceptor's or maker's default. 1902 [see ENSORSE v. 1e]. 1903 ‘IAN HAY’ & WODEHOUSE Baa, Baa, Black Sheep II. 47 May I see your licence, my dear B. B.?.. I hope it has no ensorsements on it! 1960 Act 8 & 9 Eliz. II c. 16. 86 (heading) Ensorsement of licences.

January 13th, 2009

Amy Rodriguez, a member of the Cognition and Language Lab, has received the New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.

January 6th, 2009

The Cognition and Language Lab has had some of its members get abstracts accepted into the International Neuropsychology Society Conference for 2009. The conference is being held in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta is the hometown to such acts as Outkast, T.I., Ludacris and Lil' Jon.

July 03, 2008

The Cognition and Language Lab has had some of its members get abstracts accepted into the Academy of Aphasia Conference for 2008. The conference is being held in Turku, Finland, birthplace of such famous people as Paavo Nurmi, Mauno Koivisto, Saku Koivu and the 18th century botanist, Herman Spöring!

March 11, 2008

The Cognition and Language Lab has acquire a sophisticated defense system. We call it a "laser"; for more information about our "laser's" defenseive capabilities read this.

The baby is actually a class 3A laser scavenged from the Physics Department at the University of Florida