Julie Markant, Ph.D. candidate in Child Psychology, has been awarded a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2009-2010. These Fellowships are awarded each year to a select number of students in their final year of study to enable them to devote full-time effort to dissertation research and writing.

Julie is focusing her studies on how learning and attention develop in infants through interaction with the world around them, despite the overwhelming amount of incoming stimuli. Katie Thomas is her adviser.

Congratulations, Julie!