Graduate Program News

10/27/2021 - 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...

09/11/2021 - 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...

08/12/2021 - 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...

08/08/2021 - 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,...

05/06/2021 - 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...

04/02/2021 - 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....

02/05/2021 - 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...

09/22/2020 - 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...

05/09/2020 - Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Student Parham Mostame is one of seven graduate students awarded the 2020 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship.  He was chosen for his work investigating the role of...

04/17/2019 - Wendy Heller was selected as this year’s winner of the Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. This is a reflection of the exemplary work Wendy does for our department and for the...

03/01/2019 - John Westbrook is a graduate student and teaching assistant for the Department of Psychology where he studies in the Clinical...

09/10/2018 - The Psychology Writing Support Center is a place where master's and doctoral students in the UIUC psychology department can come to receive one-on-one and also group support to help with their...

01/31/2017 - The recipients of this year's Psychology Department award for "Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student" are Deborah Cronin and Pete Ondish. Please join me in congratulating them.

04/04/2016 - Melody Buyokozer Dawkins, a current developmental psychology student, has been awarded an NSF Fellowship from the Graduate College. She is advised by Renee Baillargeon.

05/12/2015 - Andrew is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. His research examines: a) the impact of marginality on the health and life outcomes of ethnic...