2021-10-08 - The Partnerships in Equity, Access, and Representations in STEM (PEAR-STEM) project addresses inequities in preparation for STEM careers among K-12 students by attempting to identify ways to improve preparation among Black and Latinx students. University of Illinois psychology and engineering faculty partner with Champaign-Urbana community organizations and initiatives, the Chicago Pre-...

2021-10-04 - Professor Monica Fabiani has been selected to receive the Campus Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award. The award recognizes the vital role senior faculty members play in fostering the careers of junior faculty.

2021-08-23 - Dr. Carla Hunter received an award from The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for her project "Implementation and Sustainability of the ASPIRE Program." ASPIRE stands for, Ambitions and Stories of young People Inspiring Resilience and Excellence. Strength and resilience among Black youth and their families in the face of marginalization and dehumanization can...

2021-12-08 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been recently awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department.

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.

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...

2021-08-24 - We contacted Ted to discuss the Korean Liberal Arts Student Organization (KLASO) and how it helped bind him to the campus and other students through the challenging COVID circumstances. Ted is a Senior in our Clinical-Community program and has recently been named President of the organization.    1 - Could you briefly describe the objectives of the Korean Liberal...

2021-08-23 - Join the Beckman community on Thursday, Sept. 2nd and Friday, Sept. 3rd for the 2021 Workshop of the Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network. The event will feature keynote speakers from experts in computational and network neuroscience and flash talks featuring emerging research in the area of brain science. Most events during the...

2021-07-26 - By Dov Cohen. For many years, the epicenter of the “battle for human nature” was the third floor of the psychology building at 603 E. Daniel Street. That was the location of Harry Triandis’s office at the University of Illinois, where he taught for 4 decades, leaving Champaign only a few years before his death in 2019. Psychology had always been defined as the study of human behavior, emotion...

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...

2021-06-28 - For the first time, a group of psychologists and engineers have created a way to simultaneously harness the strengths of three non-invasive brain imaging tools to capture both the precise timing and location of brain activity in the human brain. The team, lead by psychology researchers Professors Florin Dolcos, Gabriele Gratton, Monica Fabiani and postdoc Matthew Moore from the...

2021-06-12 - New research from the Alcohol Research Lab shows that alcohol intoxication can impair a person's ability to remain physically distant from strangers. The reduced social distancing has implications for disease spread and could promote the transmission of respiratory diseases like COVID-19 across social groups.

2021-05-05 - James E. Spoor is a distinguished alumnus of the Department of Psychology and the University of Illinois. The scholarships are a gift by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Spoor, to honor her husband and help worthy undergraduate students. The Honors Program is a three-semester sequence of courses designed to offer outstanding undergraduates an opportunity to do sustained scholarly work on a specific...

2021-06-07 - By Dov Cohen. If someday nations are judged not just by their Gross National Product but also by how much they have allowed people to lead happy, fulfilling lives, the world will in part have Ed Diener to thank. Ed taught at the University of Illinois from 1974 to 2008.  He passed away in April of this year,  but the revolution he helped start in the social sciences -- taking...

2021-05-27 - Dr. Michael Pritz recalled the importance of summer fellowships during his own participation in the honors program, and the opportunity to get a jump start on research without the course demands of a typical semester. Upon learning that similar summer funding for undergraduate honors research was no longer available, he took it upon himself to help fulfill this gap and generously established the...