Administrative Updates & Announcements
We regret to announce that Robin
Peterson, Graduate Student Services Coordinator, has decided to leave the
department. Her last day was Monday, August 17, 2015. In order to provide
temporary coverage, we have contracted the services of Lindsey Jendraszak to help us during this critical period. Lindsey's
most recent employment was with the Indiana University systems where she worked
as an Academic Advisor. She also has experience working as a DGS Assistant.
Please take the time to stop by and welcome Lindsey to the department!
We are Happy to announce that we have hired Michael Houlahan as Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Michael's starting date was Monday, August 10, 2015. Michael comes to us via
Illinois where he worked as the Student Support Services TRIO Coordinator at
Oakton Community College, Skokie, IL for the last three years, and as and
Advisor since 2008. Please stop down in the advising office to welcome Michael
to the department!
Awards & Accomplishments
We regret to announce that Robin
Peterson, Graduate Student Services Coordinator, has decided to leave the
department. Her last day was Monday, August 17, 2015. In order to provide
temporary coverage, we have contracted the services of Lindsey Jendraszak to help us during this critical period. Lindsey's
most recent employment was with the Indiana University systems where she worked
as an Academic Advisor. She also has experience working as a DGS Assistant.
Please take the time to stop by and welcome Lindsey to the department!
We are Happy to announce that we have hired Michael Houlahan as Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Michael's starting date was Monday, August 10, 2015. Michael comes to us via
Illinois where he worked as the Student Support Services TRIO Coordinator at
Oakton Community College, Skokie, IL for the last three years, and as and
Advisor since 2008. Please stop down in the advising office to welcome Michael
to the department!
William Robiner, Ph.D., ABPP of the
Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Medical School, who is also the
Psychology Internship Director at the Medical School, was awarded the Joseph D.
Matarazzo Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in Academic
Health Centers by the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers
(APAHC) (Division 12, Section VIII).
Graduated
Congratulations to our Department of
Psychology students who graduated this summer!
Andrea Miller
Ann Schissel
Rachel Clark
Shane Hoversten
Ji
Eun Lee
Shin
Ho Cho
Leah Jappe
Alexander Maki
Andrea Miller
Area: Social
Advisors: Christopher Federico and Eugene Borgida
Thesis: The Separate
Spheres Ideology in the Workplace: Implications for Work-Life Conflict and
Gendered Disparities
Ann Schissel
Area: CSPR
Advisor: Monica Luciana
Thesis: The Serotonin
Transporter Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and potential interactions with adverse
life events leading to Major Depressive Disorder: An approach addressing inconsistencies
in the literature
Rachel Clark
Area: BP
Advisor: Colin DeYoung
Thesis: Neuroticism and
its Associations with Higher Cognitive Functions
Shane Hoversten
Area: CAB
Advisor: Wilma Koutstaal
Thesis: The Royal Road to
Semantic Cognition: Untangling Semantic Components in Temporal Lobe
Ji
Eun Lee
Area: Quant
Advisors: David Weiss and Aaron Rendahl
Thesis: Hypothesis Testing
for Adaptive Measurement of Individual Change
Shin
Ho Cho
Area: CAB
Advisors: Sheng He and Daniel Kersten
Thesis: Spatio-Temporal
Integration of Object's Surface Information in Mid-Level Vision: The Role of
Awareness and Time Course
Leah Jappe
Area: CSPR
Advisors: Bonnie Klimes-Dougan and Monica Luciana
Thesis: Fronto-limbic
Neural Activity in Response to Basic Emotion Cues in Adults and Adolescents
with Anorexia Nervosa: An fMRI Study
Alexander Maki
Area: Social
Advisors: Mark Snyder and Alexander Rothman
