Safa Zaki is a psychologist, cognitive scientist, and academic administrator serving as the 16th president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the first woman to lead Bowdoin since its founding in 1794. [1] Prior to her work at Bowdoin, Zaki served as …

Safa R. Zaki is the sixteenth president of Bowdoin College, a renowned psychologist and cognitive scientist, and the first woman to lead the College since its founding in 1794.

Oct 16, 2023 · For only the sixteenth time in its nearly 230-year history, Bowdoin College has inaugurated a new president. To add further historical weight to the occasion, this is also the first time the post has been held by a woman. On October 14, 2023, Safa Zaki was formally invested into office in a ceremony on the Bowdoin Quad.

Mar 9, 2023 · The Board of Trustees announced today that Williams College Dean of the Faculty and John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy Professor of Psychology Safa Zaki will become Bowdoin’s 16th president, making her the first woman to hold the position in the College’s history.

President Safa R. Zaki; Speeches and Writings; Student Office Hours; Past Presidents

Categorization, concept learning, dissociations and memory. For electronic copies of articles click here. Zaki, S.R, & Salmi, I. (2019). Sequence as context in category learning: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ xlm0000693.

Mar 10, 2023 · Brunswick, Maine's Bowdoin College has named psychologist and cognitive scientist Safa Zaki as its next president. Zaki will begin her tenure at Bowdoin on July 1.

Mar 10, 2023 · Dean of Faculty Safa Zaki will be the next president of Bowdoin College, President Maud S. Mandel announced in an all-campus email yesterday. Zaki will serve as the college’s 16th president and its first female president.

Oct 18, 2023 · Former Dean of the Faculty Safa Zaki — whose term as president of Bowdoin began on July 1 — was officially inaugurated on Oct. 14. Bowdoin’s presidential search committee unanimously selected Zaki in March to become the sixteenth president of Bowdoin and the first woman to hold the position.