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We have two exciting award announcements to tell you about: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Winner Congratulations to Dr. Susan E. Brennan on her selection for the 2026 DSCA award! The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award honors scholars who have made outstanding scientific contributions to the study of discourse processing and text analysis. Dr. Brennan will deliver her award address this summer at the conference in Charlotte, North Carolina July 29-31, 2026.
Susan Brennan is SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in Cognitive Science within the Department of Psychology, with affiliations in Computer Science and Linguistics. Her research uses eye-tracking, experimental, behavioral, and observational methods to study psycholinguistics, communication (verbal, nonverbal, and multimodal), adaptive language use, and the human use of technology, including spoken dialogue systems. She currently directs the NSF-funded Research Traineeship project, Detecting and Addressing Bias in Data, Humans, and Institutions, a collaboration among PhD. programs in Cognitive Science, Social & Health Psychology, Computer Science, Applied Math & Statistics, Linguistics, Political Science, Economics, Africana Studies, and Women’s Studies, with AI and bias-related convergent research projects that include assessing potential for LLVMs (Large Language-Vision Models) to act as interlocutors in spontaneous dialogue, as well as collaborating with the Innocence Network about AI tools. She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Stanford University, an M.S. in visual studies from MIT (from what is now known as the MIT Media Lab), and a B.A. from Cornell University in cultural anthropology. She has worked in industry at Atari Research, Hewlett-Packard Labs, and Apple Computer.
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Thank you to the DSCA selection committee for all their hard work: Jean-Francois Rouet (chair), Laura Allen, Raymond Mar, Jennifer Wiley, Rolf Zwaan, and Art Glenberg |
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Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award Winner Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Tighe who has been selected as the 2026 winner of the Tom Trabasso Youn Investigator Award. Dr. Tighe will deliver her award address next summer at the ST&D conference in Valencia, Spain This award goes to an outstanding young scholar who received their PhD within the last 10 years and has made a significant contribution to the understanding of discourse processing and text analysis. |
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Elizabeth L. Tighe is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University (GSU). She is also the Assistant Director of the Adult Literacy Research Center at GSU. Her primary expertise is in adult literacy and adult education. She has extensive research experience on the reading skills, reading assessments, and instructional needs of adult readers. She has published and presented work on individual differences in adults’ component reading skills, assessment and measurement of reading constructs, digital large-scale assessments (PIAAC), and the use of educational technology and comprehension strategies in adult literacy classrooms. Her work has been funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, National Institutes of Health, American Educational Research Association, and American Institutes of Research under a contract with the National Center for Education Statistics. She was recently awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which recognizes her research and dedication to the field of adult literacy
Thank you to the TTYI selection committee for all their hard work: Raquel Cerdan (chair), Alexia Galati, Matthew McCrudden, and Kathryn McCarthy (recused) |
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Please join us in congratulating Drs. Brennan and Tighe for their contributions to the field of text and discourse. Sincerely, Team ST&D |
