Congratulations to Pernille Hemmer for getting not just a good, but great doctoral degree in Cognitive Science. She succesfully defended her dissertation on Feb 17, 2011 at UC Irvine. Pernille has written numerous papers on how prior knowledge interacts with episodic memory. She has also actively presented her work in various research conferences.  She will be continuing her academic endeavours with a post-doc at Syracuse University in New York starting mid-March 2011. (We’ll miss you Barbz!)