Alan Templeton is no stranger to the UC Davis campus. The alum spent his undergraduate years exploring the Quad and combing through art history books in Shields Library. Templeton (B.A., art history and psychology, ‘82) has worked as a professional artist, labor union administrator and investor. He’s an art collector and is passionate about helping elevate and grow the arts and humanities at UC Davis.
Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton would have studied chemistry if not for an introductory textbook that would define his 50-year career studying greatness. Simonton will receive the 2024 Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award for his work.
Funded by a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Distinguished Professor George R. Mangun, director of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, is launching a project to better understand the cognitive mechanisms behind realistic voluntary attention, or attention directed by an individual’s free will. The project will be conducted in collaboration with engineering colleagues at the
University of Florida.