Michelle Levine, a PhD student in Psychology, at The New School for Social Research was awarded the 2009 Jason Albrecht Award for Outstanding Young Scientist for her paper “Copresence in Collaborative Musicmaking” at the annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse in Rotterdam, Netherlands on July 28, 2009.

The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away. The award recognizes an outstanding paper based on a doctoral dissertation.