Congratulations to Emma Marsano for winning Best Oral Presentation at the 10th annual Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference, which was held at Indiana University, Bloomington on Saturday, April 7th. Emma presented part of her Cognitive Science Honors Thesis work, in a talk called Sloan Funding and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. In her presentation, she addressed a gap that currently exists in the interdisciplinary field’s history — the way in which the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s funding program in the 1970s and 80s shaped the institutionalization of cognitive science, making a lasting impact on the central theories and methodologies of the field. She argued that cognitive scientists have a responsibility to be more rigorous in understanding and addressing the disciplinary and epistemological imbalances that the Sloan Foundation’s funding priorities established, and to investigate the power of the discourse of cognitive science in areas beyond the field. Emma is currently exploring venues to publish sections of her thesis.