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JAMES G. GREENO BORN MAY 1, 19...

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JAMES G. GREENO Born May 1, 1935, died September 8 from a prolonged illness, with his loving family surrounding him. An Eagle Scout and President of the All-University Congress at the University of Minnesota, Jim went on to a distinguished career as a cognitive scientist, philosopher of science and tenured faculty member at Indiana University, the University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. He was co-founder and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Research on Learning, and served in leadership capacities with the National Academy of Education, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, the Cognitive Science Society, Psychonomic Society, Society for Mathematical Psychology, American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other professional associations. He was Executive Editor of Cognitive Science, and served in an editorial role for numerous other publications, including Journal of Learning Sciences, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Memory & Cognition and more. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, J. McKeen Catrell Award, and E.L. Thorndike Award from the APA. His legacy lives on in his prodigious scholarly publications, and the work of his many colleagues and graduate students whose lives he touched. Cherished son of Gordon and Helen Greeno, Jim is survived by his wife of 63 years, Noreen Herreid Greeno; son, John Greeno; daughter, Catherine Greeno; grandchildren, Emily Greeno, James Greeno, Grace Greeno and Jack Fischbeck. Exemplified the best of us through his quiet dignity, patience, humor, kindness, unwavering integrity, commitment to truth and knowledge, passion for science and love for family. Donations in his honor can be sent to the James G. Greeno Scholarship Fund, established to assist undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh, through this link: https://secure.giveto.pitt.edu/give.php?appeal=GRNOWEB, or by sending a check payable to the University of Pittsburgh, with “James G. Greeno Fund” in the memo line, to: University of Pittsburgh, Philanthropic & Alumni Engagement,107 Park Plaza, 128 N. Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Arrangements by JOHN A. FREYVOGEL SONS, INC. Send condolences post-gazette.com/gb

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