2025-12-16 - We have another addition to our staff who will be wearing many hats. Our new Office Support Specialist, Andrew Walker will be helping our our HR department and providing Advising Support to our Undergraduate students.Per tradition, we asked him a handful of questions to get to know him better....Posted:
2025-11-28 - For over 20 years, the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation’s mission has remained consistent. Fostering the next generation of Latino leadership while advocating for the needs and wants of the community.Their growth and leadership have evolved the Foundation from a board-led organization...Posted:
2025-12-08 - Professor and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Wendy Heller was recently honored in Montreal with the most prestigious award from the Society for Psychophysiology.The Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology Award is the highest honor given from the SPR, which...Posted:
2025-11-11 - We are excited for our new Assistant Professor, Caroline Kelsey to start after the new year, but in the meantime she is currently looking for students to join her team! The Study of Early Experiences on Development (SEED) Lab's research focuses on understanding how infants and young children...Posted:
2025-10-02 - Professor Michel (Mike) Regenwetter (UIUC Psychology, Political Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering) and his co-author, Assistant Professor Daniel Cavagnaro of California State University, Fullerton, received the 2025 annual award for the most outstanding paper...Posted:
2025-09-09 - The Department of Psychology is thrilled to welcome Dr. Yukun Yu as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Developmental area.Can you briefly share your academic and professional background that led you to the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign?...Posted:
2025-09-09 - Dr. Bo Zhang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the School of Labor and Employment Relations, has received the Academy of Management Research Methods Division’s Lawrence R. James Early Career Award. This award recognizes a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to...Posted:
2025-08-26 - Join us in welcoming our new Assistant Professor of computational neuroscience, Dean Pospisil. You can peruse his research projects via the Pospisil Lab homepage.1 - Can you briefly share your...Posted:
2025-05-29 - Alex is the newest addition to our Graduate Student Coordination Office. Jumping in right before the crazy season of graduation is no easy task, but he was ready for the challenge. Now that the dust has settled a bit, we felt it was time for you all to get to know him better....Posted:
2025-05-27 - Two Ph.D. candidates in our Quantitative program have scored a 2025 Psychometric Society Travel Award! Sunbeom Kwon and Trung Le have their fees waived and receive funds to support their travel to the conference. Kwon's work, which will be presented at the conference, is titled “A copula-based...Posted:
2025-03-01 - As a graduate of our department, you understand firsthand the foundation that this institution provides. You are also keenly aware that there is much to learn beyond the walls of academia. To help our students gain the skills and experiences they will need in their chosen professions, we are...Posted:
2025-05-21 - The Psychology Leaders have evolved this year. They've branched out deeper into the community, scheduled more interactive events, and finally got some new threads! We asked the Leaders President, Hafsa Fauqi, to recap the year and give some credit to the group that does so much without enough...Posted:
2025-04-10 - A recent study published in JAMA Network Open investigates how stigma experienced by parents in sexual and gender minority (SGM) families relates to their children's emotional and behavioral health. The research team, led by Dr. Qimin Liu from Boston University and Dr. Violeta Rodriguez...Posted:
2025-04-10 - New research published by Assistant Professor Benedek Kurdi examined data from 1.4 million participants across 33 countries from 2009 to 2019, finding that while explicit, self-reported bias decreased, the picture for implicit bias was more varied. ...Posted:
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...Posted: