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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...

2021-05-26 - The Roger B. Smith Scholarship in Psychology was established in June 2014 by Roger Bennett Smith to support undergraduate students. Mr. Smith graduated in 1966 with a BS in Psychology and a minor in Chemistry. Daniella Di Stefano is a junior studying Psychology and Global Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Following graduation, Daniella plans to attend law school...

2021-05-06 - The Raymond B. Cattell Scholarship in Psychology was established by Dr. Samuel Krug (MA’68; PhD’71) in honor of Professor Raymond Cattell who served as his advisor and friend through graduate school.  The recipient, Estella Lee is majoring in clinical psychology.  During this semester, Estella has been a member of the University Psychology Association (UPA), NAMI,...

2021-05-25 - Job hunting and filling a position is a difficult task on both ends. It is even more challenging during a pandemic. After a long search, we are thrilled to have Brian Boyle on the team! He jumped right in his first Zoom Staff Meeting and hit the ground running.    What is your official title? My official job title is Senior IT Specialist, as a part of ATLAS at the...

2021-04-24 - On April 23rd, the Clinical-Community program hosted a talk given by Dr. Watson-Singleton titled, "Building a Mindfulness Research Program that Centers the Experience of African Americans." It was supported through the Psychology Diversity and Inclusion Committee's Anti-Racism Large Grant fund. Dr. Watson-Singleton, an alumna of the Clinical-Community Psychology program, has...

2021-04-20 - We resumed our popular Alumni Career Panel series this past spring. Our guests engaged with students of varying stages within their major. They shared stories from their undergrad days through their current career path. They used their real-world experiences to give valuable insight to those with similar interests. Some stayed well past the designated hour to answer one on one questions...