Carnegie Mellon’s Roberta Klatzky To Receive Queenan Professorship in Psychology

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Roberta Klatzky To Receive Queenan Professorship in Psychology-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University. Chair Recognizes Klatzky's Outstanding Contributions to Human Perception and Cognition Research Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo [a] cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Roberta Klatzky will receive the Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology in recognition of her outstanding contributions in human perception and cognition research. Klatzky, who joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1993, investigates perception, spatial thinking and action from the perspective of multiple modalities, sensory and symbolic, in real and virtual environments. Her research has been instrumental to the development of telemanipulation, image-guided surgery, navigation aids for the blind and neural rehabilitation. "Carnegie Mellon has been a leader in the cognitive sciences for nearly 65 years, and Roberta Klatzky is one of the reasons we continue to be at the forefront," said John Lehoczky , dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "It's fitting that she is honored for her tremendous impact as a scientist and educator with a chair in Charles Queenan's name — a longtime supporter of CMU and our innovation in research." Klatzky, who holds additional appointments in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), considers her research as a cognitive scientist who focuses on perception to be far from what most people think of as psychology.