2025-04-04
- Breana 'Brea' Griffin’s transformative impact on campus and beyond has earned them the 2025 Graduate Student Leadership Award. Brea is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Clinical-Community Program, teaching PSYCH 239. In their spare time, they enjoy crafting, music, playing D&D, and spending time with their pup, Ella Mae. Their graduate experience has been anything but conventional. In...
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2024-09-03 - 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 project brings together researchers who have competing/opposing hypotheses...Posted: 2024-09-03
2024-01-29 - Social Psychology PhD student Erica Nack has received a grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to assess the impact of different holiday decorations on perceptions of inclusion and level of care by new patients of various religious backgrounds. Receiving the grant will allow Erica to recruit a religiously diverse group of participants. What do you hope will...Posted: 2024-01-29
2024-01-29 - 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 area. His proposal titled "The Impact of Non-Religious Demographic Shifts on Attitudes Toward...Posted: 2024-01-29
2023-12-27 - Social-Personality Psychology PhD student Briana Kunstman was recently appointed to the newly formed BDSM Task Force within APA Division 44. The task force focuses on research, education and training, psychological practice, public interest, and public awareness related to kink, leather, BDSM, fetish, and other forms of alternative sexualities and communities. This interview has been edited...Posted: 2023-12-27
2023-08-23 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD student Chu Chu recently received the Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship from the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). The HumRRO Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate student in I/O Psychology or related doctoral programs who demonstrates exceptional research skills. The fellowship provides a stipend to the student...Posted: 2023-08-23
2023-08-23 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD candidate Lingyue Li recently won the 2023 James C. Johnson Student Paper Competition. This competition, organized by the International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC), acknowledges the contributions of students in the field of personnel assessment. The competition recognizes research efforts that contribute to the assessment field and align with IPAC'...Posted: 2023-08-23
2023-04-21 - Professor Caroline Tancredy has received the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, recognizing her work as Director of the Department of Psychology's Masters of Science in Psychological Science program. The Master of Science in Psychological Science (MSPS) degree prepares emerging scholars for doctoral-level work or jobs in the industry through engagement in advanced...Posted: 2023-04-21
2023-02-06 - Congratulations to Clinical-Community doctoral student Katie Kemp, advised by Professor of Psychology Thomas Kwapil, who has received a grant from the American Psychological Foundation to support her dissertation! Schizophrenia is the most extreme manifestation of a continuum of symptoms and impairment known as schizotypy. Schizotypy is multidimensional with positive, negative, and...Posted: 2023-02-08
2022-12-07 - Congratulations to Industrial-Organizational doctoral student Chu Chu, advised by Assistant Professor of Psychology and Labor and Employment Relations Bo Zhang, who has received a grant from the Society for Organizational and Industrial Psychology to support her dissertation! In this proposed project, we aim to develop and validate a career guidance chatbot—an interactive tool that collects and...Posted: 2023-02-08
2023-01-13 - Jas Jacobson is our inaugural recipient of the “Advanced Research Opportunity Honors Fellowship.” This fellowship provides support over three semesters of undergraduate research conducted toward the completion of an honors thesis in psychology. Jas is a third-year student currently working as a research assistant in the BEAST lab under the advisement of Professor Berenbaum. She previously...Posted: 2023-01-13
2023-01-04 - Congratulations to Auburn Jimenez on being one of five students to receive the Dissertation and Research Grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Auburn is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology. His project is titled “A General Ordinal Diagnostic Model for Item- and Category-Level Inferences Using a Polya-Gamma Data Augmentation Strategy.” Recipients...Posted: 2023-01-04
2022-11-07 - Markera Jones received this year’s Graduate Student Leadership Award from The Graduate College.Posted: 2022-11-07
2022-07-01 - Written by Diana Yates Illinois News Bureau Photo Credit: Michelle Hassel A new study finds that the more a person stares at themself while talking with a partner in an online chat, the more their mood degrades over the course of the conversation. Alcohol use appears to worsen the problem, the researchers found. Reported in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, the findings point to a...Posted: 2022-07-01
2022-05-10 - Congratulations to Megan Finnegan on being named to the 2022 class of Backman Institute Graduate Fellows! Megan is currently pursuing two Ph.D.s in psychology and neuroscience. Finnegan is examining the relationship between female teenagers’ well-being and a type of cyberbullying called online exclusion. She is interested in how the biological processes that occur in the brain during...Posted: 2022-05-10