A University of Maryland cognitive neuroscience researcher working to understand the mechanisms of how we learn from and about other people has been awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious honors dedicated to early-career scientists.
Assistant Professor Caroline Charpentier of the Department of Psychology and UMD’s Brain and Behavior Institute is one of 126 early-career researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions lauded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as “the next generation of leaders.” Fifty-nine Sloan fellows have received a Nobel Prize, including John Clarke, last year’s Nobel laureate in physics; more than 70 UMD faculty members have received the Sloan Fellowship.
Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship which can be used flexibly to advance their research.
Read more about Professor Charpentier and her research here.
