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Graduate Program News
- Professor Kimberly Rios, PhD student Alexis Morales, and collaborator Michael Zarate at the University of Texas at El Paso have received a grant from the University of Pennsylvania's Adversarial Collaboration Project. Funded originally by the Koch Foundation (which gave a sub-award to UPenn), the...
- Social Psychology PhD student Mazyar Bagherian has received an APA Division 36 Social Justice Task Force Research Grant, to support research conducted by underrepresented students and early career psychologists to support research on underrepresented populations within the psychology of religion...
