The Quad-L Trust

The Quad-L Trust is an endowed asset of the University of New Mexico Foundation. The primary goals of the Trust are to encourage recognition of the historical antecedents of contemporary work in the general area of learning/memory/cognition, and to facilitate access to the antecedents. A secondary goal is to encourage application of scientific knowledge about learning/memory/cognition to practical affairs of everyday life.

The cornerstone of the Quad-L Trust is the Quad-L Library. This library is a research facility available to faculty, students, and visiting scholars engaged in an intensive review of the literature of learning. The Quad-L also supports the publication of monographs germane to the primary goals; the first publication, illustrating the basic science objective was Classical Conditioning: Acquisition (Logan, 1986). The first publication illustrating the applied science objective was College Learning: Ways and Whys (Logan, 1991).

The Trust provides a Quad-L Lecture every fall. The Lecture is intended to honor a distinguished contemporary scientist who is actively engaged in research in some facet of learning/memory/cognition. The lecturer is elected by the faculty and graduate students of the UNM Psychology Department.