 We are very pleased to announce that the government of the greater Paris region has appointed Prof. Paul Smolensky to an International Blaise Pascal Research Chair. These chairs are awarded yearly to preeminent scholars in the sciences, social sciences and humanities to conduct research, and deliver public lectures in the Paris region. Paul Smolensky, whose research project is entitled 'Formal foundations of abstraction in linguistic cognitive science', is the first Cognitive Scientist to be appointed since these chairs were established in 1996. The Blaise Pascal Research Chairs are administered by the Ecole Normale Superieure, France's most prestigious institution of higher education. Each chair holder's research project is sponsored by a Parisian academic institution. On sabbatical from JHU for the academic year 2008-9, Paul Smolensky will conduct research in the Department of Cognitive Studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the Latin Quarter.
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