Name: Dr. Vincent Samar
Title: NTID Scholarship Award for Tenured Faculty
Department: Department of Liberal Studies
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Year: AY 2016-2017
Award Type: Scholarship
Tenure Type: Tenured
Faculty Type: Faculty
Biography:
Dr. “Vince” Samar, Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal
Studies, has made significant contributions to the scholarship of discovery
including diverse fields in deaf health research, social determinants of
health, cognitive development, and attentional enhancement among a few other
topics of special interest. Since 2012, Dr. Samar has taught and mentored RIT
Psychology baccalaureate students, as well as taught /Senior Project in
Psychology/ to 24 deaf out of 26 total undergraduate students resulting in
numerous poster presentations and research projects as co-authors. “Dr.
Samar has a record of prodigious scholarship, including 63 publications in
refereed journal as well as dozens of presentations at local, regional,
national and international conferences.” Most recently, his goals have
turned to seeking and writing funds to completely renovate the NTID research
lab facilities to better support research experiences in experimental
psychology and cognitive neuroscience for future RIT students.



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