Graduate Program News

09/03/2024 - 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...

01/29/2024 - Social Psychology PhD student Erica Granz 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...

01/29/2024 - 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...

12/27/2023 - 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...

08/23/2023 - 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...

08/23/2023 - 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...

04/21/2023 - 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...

02/06/2023 - 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...

01/26/2023 - The Psychology Department Diversity and Inclusion Committee are pleased to announce our Anti-racism Grant Fund, designed to support members of the psychology department in seeking financial support...

01/13/2023 - 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...

01/04/2023 - 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...

12/07/2022 - 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...

11/07/2022 - Markera Jones received this year’s Graduate Student Leadership Award from The Graduate College.

07/01/2022 - 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...

05/10/2022 - 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...