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    Megan Finnegan is named a 2022 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow
    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
  • Jiawen Wu standing on left side, Eva Pomerantz on right, in front of a black board with mathematical formulas written all over it.
    Professor Eva Pomerantz and graduate students Jiawen Wu and Dajung (Diana) Oh show link between Parents Positivity towards math and children’s math achievement
    2022-05-04 - New work from graduate student Jiawen Wu, Dajung (Diana) Oh, and Professor Eva Pomerantz demonstrate the connection between the way parents support their young children with math homework and their child’s later mathematics motivation and achievement.
     Posted: 2022-05-04
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    Mahogany Monette wins National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
    2022-04-27 - Graduate student Mahogany Monette has received a highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
     Posted: 2022-04-27
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    Members of psychology department serve as editors for a journal's special issue on race and racism
    2022-04-11 - Professor Alejandro Lleras and graduate student Julia Spielmann are among the invited editors for a special issue on the impact of race on psychological process.
     Posted: 2022-04-11
  • Julia Spielmann wearing a blue collared shirt and standing in front of bushes with red flowers
    Julia Spielmann sweeps the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Awards
    2022-02-23 - Julia Spielmann has received awards for excellence in teaching from both the Department of Psychology and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
     Posted: 2022-02-23
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    Graduate Student Julia Spielmann Awarded Special Recognition in Graduate Leadership
    2021-10-28 - Julia Spielmann has earned Special Recognition in Graduate Leadership by the UIUC Graduate College, celebrating her outstanding service and positive impact on campus and in broader communities.
     Posted: 2021-10-28
  • Side-by-side photos of Fan Xuan (left) and Dr. Yihao Liu (right)
    Professor Yihao Liu and Graduate Student Fan Xuan Chen Show That Supervisors' Evaluations are Linked to How Employees Request Help
    2021-10-27 - New work by professor Yihao Liu and graduate student Fan Xuan demonstrate that how employees ask for help is associated with differences in how competent their coworkers’ perceive them to be and how their supervisors evaluate their job performance.
     Posted: 2021-10-27
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    Professor Sepideh Sadaghiani and Graduate Student Max Egan Develop Guidelines for Safe Brain Imaging
    2021-09-11 - New research led by professor Sepideh Sadaghiani and graduate student Maximillian Egan outlines the most effective approaches to reduce unwanted noise and ensure participant safety in the most advanced neuroimaging protocols to-date.
     Posted: 2021-09-11
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    Rachel Flood Heaton Receives New Frontiers Graduate Fellowship
    2021-08-08 - The New Frontiers Initiative, in collaboration with the Blue Waters Project, recently selected their 2021 New Frontiers Graduate Fellows. Fellows receive a stipend, tuition allowance, travel funds, and the use of the powerful Blue Waters computing system to advance their Ph.D. research. Rachel's project, entitled "A Computational...
     Posted: 2021-09-03
  • Photo of Mahogonay Monette
    Graduate Student Mahogany Monette wins the CHANGE Grant
    2021-08-12 - Mahogany Monette has won the Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant from the American Psychological Association. The award supports early career psychologists in projects aimed at identifying and uprooting systemic racism, discrimination, and violence. Mahogany's research proposal for the grant focuses on understanding the links between racial...
     Posted: 2021-07-16
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    Psychology Alum Dr. Michele Gelfand Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
    2021-05-06 - Dr. Michele Gelfand joins the ranks of some of the most world renowned scientists this year in a historic election at the National Academies of Sciences. Election to the Academy represents one of the highest honors in science and the organization serves as a primary resource for scientific guidance on matters of national policy. The election this year addresses a long-standing...
     Posted: 2021-05-06
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    Psychology Graduate Writing Center Moves to a New Site!
    2021-04-02 - Update your bookmarks! The Psychology Department's Graduate Writing Center has moved websites and can now be found under the Resources tab at the top of this website or at the url https://psychology.illinois.edu/resources/writing-center. 
     Posted: 2021-04-02
  • Head shot of Emily Blevins
    Emily Blevins receives both the LAS and Campus Teaching Awards
    2021-02-05 - Emily Blevins, a PhD student in Clinical-Community Psychology has been chosen to receive both the LAS and UIUC Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The awards recognize Emily's outstanding contributions towards the undergraduate curriculum. We caught up with Emily to ask her about her approach to teaching and what motivates her and her students for success.
     Posted: 2021-02-02
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    Call for Anti-Racism Grant Proposals
    2023-01-26 - 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 for anti-racism events and initiatives. All psychology affiliated staff, undergraduate majors, graduate students, and faculty are eligible. Thank you to all of the donors of the...
     Posted: 2020-10-13
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    Congratulations to Paul Bogdan
    2020-09-22 - Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Student Paul Bogdan is the inaugural winner of the Thomas and Margaret Huang Graduate Fellowship.  He was chosen for his work using statistics and machine learning to gain insight into the processes underlying trust and productive social relationships. The fellowship honors the legacy of Thomas and Margaret Huang. Dr. Thomas Huang was an...
     Posted: 2020-09-21

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