Awards and Accomplishments
Professor Mark Snyder was the invited keynote
speaker at the meetings of the social psychology section of the German
Association of Psychology, held September 2-4, 2013 in Hagen, Germany.
The title of his address was "Caring, Concern, and Community Connection:
New Directions in the Study of Pro-Social Action". For media coverage
(in German) of his speech, visit here:
Former graduate student Brenton W. McMenamin and Professor Chad J. Marsolek won the 2013 award for Best Article in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience (a Psychonomic Society publication), for their paper "Can theories of visual representation help to explain asymmetries in amygdala function?"
Tiana Bochsler, a graduate student in the cognitive and brain sciences area, successfully passed her PhD oral defense on September 12th, 2013. The title of her thesis is "Perceiving Properties of Indoor Layouts with Impaired Vision". Her advisor was Gordon Legge. Her dissertation committee included Professors Koutstaal, Kersten, Legge and Yonas. Congratulations to Tiana!
Graduated
Congratulations to our August 2013 Ph.D. graduates!
Samuel M. Hintz
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Patricia Frazier
Dissertation Title: Evaluating an Online Intervention to Increase Present Control over Stress
Reiko Hirai
Area: Counseling
Advisors: Patricia Frazier and Moin Syed
Dissertation Title: Longitudinal Adjustment Trajectories of International Students and Their Predictors
John Smithe Kim
Area: Social
Advisors: Jeffry Simpson and Mark Snyder
Dissertation Title: The Influence of Local Sex Ratio on Romantic Relationship Maintenance Processes
Oh Myo Kim
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Richard Lee
Dissertation Title: Writing the Unknown: An Expressive Writing Intervention for Adopted Korean American Adults
Amanda Koch
Area: I/O
Advisor: Paul Sackett
Dissertation Title: Predicting Undergraduates' Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Fields
Stephanie Pituc
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Richard Lee
Dissertation Title: Foreigner objectification, bicultural identity, and
psychological adjustment in Asian American college students
James Porter
Area: CSPR
Advisor: Monica Luciana
Dissertation Title: Cortical and Subcortical Correlates of Emotional Control Across Adolescent Development
Maryhope Howland Rutherford
Area: Social
Advisors: Jeffry Simpson and Traci Mann
Dissertation Title: Attention and Support Visibility in the Receipt of Social Support
Grants
Congratulations to the following for their recently awarded grants!
Bill Iacono
National Institutes of Health
2013-2018 $3,237,730
Adult consequences of youth substance use: Twin study enriched for SUD risk
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan (2 grants)
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities
2013-2014 $31,140
The Pediatric Bipolar Biobank Program
Rich Lee
Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood Initiative
United Way SIF Grant
2013-2014 $16,000
Promise Neighborhood SIF Grant
Angus MacDonald
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health
2013-2017 $939,577
5/5 Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications Consortium (renewal)
Andrew Oxenham
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
2013-2018 $1,580,519
Spectro-temporal interactions in electric and acoustic processing and auditory perception
Paul Schrater
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
2013-2015 $98,892
Cognitive Foundations of Economic Microfoundations
David Vachon, Minnesota Center for Twin Family Research
Bob Krueger, Bill Iacono & Matt McGue - Mentors
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse
NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award
2013-2015 $104,733
Identifying modifiable pathways to chronic substance use
Krista Wisner, Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Program Graduate Student
Angus MacDonald and Kelvin Lim - Mentors
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health
National Research Service Award (NRSA)
2013-2015 $72,070
Neural Nature of Persecutory Ideation in Schizophrenia
Upcoming Events
Department of Psychology Colloquium
Thursday, October 24, 2013
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (followed by a short reception)
Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
Thursday, October 24, 2013
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (followed by a short reception)
Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
Speaker: Stephen Chew, Ph.D.
Why Do Academics Do Research Like Scholars but Teach Like Dummies?
A strange discrepancy exists between how we academics typically think
about research and how we think about teaching. When we conduct
research, we understand the importance of reviewing the relevant
literature and insist on rigorous methods and convincing evidence.
When we teach, however, we often act as if there is no literature on
teaching, there are no methods for evaluating teaching, and evidence
doesn't really matter. Too often we are perfectly content to base our
teaching on intuition, untested assumptions and little or no evidence.
If we were to conduct research in the same way, we would be guilty of
poor scholarship. I will argue that we should approach teaching like
we approach scholarship. We should see teaching as an area of applied
research, especially those of us in psychology and the social
sciences. I will discuss examples of how this approach can advance
teaching effectiveness and improve student learning.
About the speaker (from his website):
Stephen L. Chew received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in
experimental psychology. He has been professor and chair of psychology
at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama since 1993. Trained as a
cognitive psychologist, one of his primary research areas is the
cognitive basis of effective teaching. He is a recognized authority on
teaching research, theory and practice. He has received local and
national awards for the quality of his teaching. He is a leader in the
scholarship of teaching and learning. His research interests include
the use of examples in teaching, the tenacious misconceptions that
students bring with them into the classroom, and the role of questions
in learning. He regularly serves as a keynote speaker and workshop
leader at conferences on teaching in general and on the teaching of
psychology in particular. In 2011, Professor Chew was named the 2011
U. S. Professor of the Year for Master's Universities and Colleges by
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
2014 Psychology Undergraduate Celebration
Save the Date!
Friday, May 9, 2014
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the
annual recognition celebration for psychology undergraduate students.
This annual event recognizes our outstanding undergraduate achievements
and graduating seniors.
Additional details and RSVP directions will follow later in the academic year.
If there are student accomplishments you believe
warrant recognition at this event, please forward details (and/or any
questions) to Holly Hatch-Surisook (hhatch@umn.edu). Recognitions may
include co-authors on published papers.
Thank you for your support of our undergraduate students
