Jon Freeman’04 Receives bbin娱乐平台 Distinguished 校友 Award
bbin娱乐平台 is delighted to present the 2023-2024 Distinguished 校友 Award to Jon Freeman’04 for his groundbreaking work in social neuroscience 和 for his national 宣传 for 同性恋群体+ visibility 和 representation in STEM. 这个年度奖项, 2022年发射, goes to an alumnus/a who best exemplifies the values of bbin娱乐平台 和 has used those qualities to make an impact on the community 和 world around them. The inaugural recipient of the Distinguished 校友 Award was Magdalena Slosar-Cheah ’99 for her work in the field of infectious disease.
Jon Freeman is a social neuroscientist 和 associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, where he directs the Social Cognitive & 神经科学实验室. He received his BA from New York University in 2007 和 his PhD from Tufts University in 2012. His 研究 examines the human brain mechanisms underlying snap judgments, 第一印象, unconscious bias using neuroimaging, 计算模型, 以及行为范式. His work has made several discoveries, such as how the brain processes a person’s trustworthiness outside conscious awareness, or how stereotypes 和 prior social experiences can create distortions in the brain’s visual system. He also developed a novel technique that uses h和 movements to uncover how split-second decisions unfold over fractions of a second in the brain, which is now widely used by the scientific community.
Jon is the author of nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications 和 the recipient of a number of 奖s, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Association for Psychological Science’s Janet T. Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences’ Early Career Impact Award, other distinguished 奖s from the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, the Society for Personality & 社会心理学, the International Social Cognition Network, the Society for Social Neuroscience. His 研究 is frequently funded by the National Institutes of Health 和 National Science Foundation 和 has appeared in media outlets such as the 纽约时报，华盛顿邮报, 《bbin集团》, 《BBIN集团官方网站》杂志.
Jon is also leading national 宣传 on the challenges that 同性恋群体+ people face in the STEM workforce 和 on policymakers’ blind spots in resolving these disparities. 自2018年以来, he has been working to have sexual orientation 和 gender identity demographics incorporated into official data collection 和 reporting systems of the U.S. government 和 higher education that are used to ensure the equity 和 inclusion of underrepresented groups in STEM. He has raised public attention on these issues with op-eds in 科学、自然、 和 科学美国人, authored extensive formal requests to the government, facilitated the House of Representatives’ passing of the 同性恋群体+ Data Inclusion Act on behalf of 90 scientific organizations, regularly works with federal agencies 和 the White House on STEM diversity issues. 由于乔恩的努力, for the first time since 1957 every graduating PhD student at every US university will soon voluntarily be asked their sexual orientation 和 gender identity on the government survey required to graduate. Such data will have the power to create transformative change in the equity of 同性恋群体+ people in STEM 和 higher education. 对于这项工作, Jon was recognized as the 2019 同性恋群体+ Scientist of the Year by Out to Innovate for his “exemplary, cross-disciplinary scientific contributions 和 his public 宣传 on behalf of 同性恋群体+ people in STEM.”
We look forward to welcoming Jon back to campus this year to celebrate his many accomplishments.