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Glushko Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Symbolic Systems

The Robert Glushko Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Symbolic Systems is funded by a generous gift from Robert J. Glushko ('74, Psychology). The Glushko Prize in Symbolic Systems was inaugurated in 2021. Prize recipients receive a certificate and a monetary award.

Recipients of the Glushko Prize have been...

Photo of Robert Glushko

Photo of Robert Glushko

Dr. Glushko is Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California Berkeley and an honorary member of the Cognitive Science Society. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science in 1979 at the University of California San Diego, where his dissertation advisor was the late David Rumelhart -- who served as Professor of Psychology at Stanford (and later Professor Emeritus) from 1987 until his death in 2011.