Thursday, October 1, 2015

October 2015

Awards & Accomplishments



Professor Eugene Borgida has been elected to serve as Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. He was elected by the FABBS Council of Representatives and will be starting in January of 2016.


Michael P. Wilmot, a graduate student in our Industrial/Organizational Psychology area, recently received 3 competitive awards for his proposed dissertation, "A Quantitative Review and Synthesis of Five-Factor Model Meta-Analyses in the Behavioral Sciences". First, from the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), he received a dissertation research grant for $3,760 to help offset direct research costs associated with conducting his dissertation research. Second, he received a Humane Studies Fellowship for $5,000 from the Institute for Humane Studies; the fellowship awards doctoral pursuits advancing ideas of liberty and peace at the highest intellectual levels. Finally, he was awarded the prestigious 2015 Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship in I/O Psychology from the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO); each year, the $12,000 fellowship is awarded to one dissertation-stage I/O psychology doctoral candidate nation-wide who demonstrates exceptional research skills. Congratulations to Michael, and his advisor, Deniz Ones

Graduated



Congratulations to our Department of Psychology students who recently graduated!

Susan D’ Mello
Area: I/O
Advisor: Paul Sackett
Thesis: An Investigation of the Predictors and Moderators of Climate Strength

Christiaan Sean Greer
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Pat Frazier
Thesis: An Internet-Based Mindfulness Intervention for College Student Stress and Anxiety

Alison Wen-Hsin Hu
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Rich Lee
Thesis: Cultural Socialization in Transracial, Transnational Adoptive Families: A Seven-Year Follow-Up

Rachel Klein
Area: I/O
Advisor: Deniz Ones
Thesis: Employee Motives for Engaging in Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors: A Multi-Study Analysis


Grants


Professor Eugene Borgida (Psychology), Irina Stepanov (Masonic Cancer Center, Division of Environmental Health Sciences), Barbara Loken (CSOM, Marketing Dept.), and Dorothy Hatsukami (Psychiatry) have been awarded $310,368 for 2015-16 by the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) to conduct research on "Consumer perceptions of smokeless tobacco constituents as a function of public display format." 

In collaboration with Columbia University, Assistant Professor Shmuel Lissek received an R01 from the NIH to study neural signatures of over-generalized fear in trauma survivors.