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Jane Couperus was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for "Collaborative Research: Level II Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM-related fields Using Electrophysiology (PURSUE)." The project is for five years. (2019)

National Science Foundation


Reed, C.L., Siqi-Liu, A., Chitre, A., Denaro, C., Joshi, J., Petropolis, A., Lodge, M. Couperus, J.W., Bukach, C.M. (2022). Selective contributions of Executive Function Ability to the P3. International Journal of Psychophysiology.


Reed, C.L., Hagen, E., Bukach, C.M, Couperus, J.W. (2021). Effectiveness of Undergraduate-Generated Animations: Increasing Comprehension and Engagement for Neuroscience Majors and Non-Majors. Teaching of Psychology. 1-13.


Bukach, C.M., Bukach, N., Reed, C.L., & Couperus, J.W. (2021). Open Science as a Path to Education of New Psychophysiologists. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 76-83. DOI: 


Couperus, J.W., *Lydic, K.O., *Hollis, J.E., *Roy, J.L, *Lowe, A.R., Bukach, C., Reed., C. (2021). Individual Differences in Working Memory and the N2pc. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,15, 620413 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.620413


Daniel Czitrom's book, Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan, has just been translated into Korean by Culturelook Publishing in Seoul. It had previously been translated into Chinese and Spanish. First published in 1982 by the University of North Carolina Press, Media and the American Mind received the First Books Award from the American Historical Association. It remains in print today.


Daniel Czitrom appears as a featured commentator in the documentary film , premiering on PBS/American Masters, Tuesday, October 20, 2020.


Darling, N. (2021) A Performative Regionalist View on Site. In Andrea Kahn and Carol Burns, editors, Site Matters - Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design, 2nd ed., (pp. 269). New York, NY: Routledge.


Naomi Darling Architecture was awarded two AIA awards in December from the Western Mass AIA Chapter.    Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library was awarded a Merit Award. This was a conversion of a ground floor walk-out basement and garage into a one bedroom loft-style apartment and library in Milford CT.   Solar Time was awarded a Citation Award. The project was a collaboration with Darrell Petit, and was part of the XTCA - Cross Town Contemporary Art Exhibition organized by the UMass University Museum of Contemporary Art.

Naomi Darling Architecture LLC received an AIA (American Institute of Architects) New England Merit Award for Design Excellence for Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library Project in Milford CT. The Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library is an interior renovation and conversion of an existing ground floor walk-out basement and two-car garage into one-bedroom loft-style mother-in-law apartment and separate library workspace. The project enables three generations to live together, and apart, enabling the many social and economic benefits of an intergenerational household.