Monday, February 1, 2016

February 2016

Awards & Accomplishments



Professor Bob Kruger, and his co-authors (Craig Rodgiruez-Sejas and Nicholas Eaton), had their paper, "How Transdiagnostic Factors of Personality and Psychopathology can inform Clinical Assessment and Intervention," selected as the winner of the 2015 Martin Mayman Award, which is awarded by the Society for Personality Assessment annually for the best theoretical paper published in the journal during the 2015 calendar year.  Congratulations!

Social area Graduate Student, Keven Joyal-Desmarais, was awarded a 4-year doctoral scholarship starting last fall. The award was from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. The SSHRC announcement can be found here.
Congrats Keven!


Dr. Zhicheng Lin has been named an APS Rising Star. Zhicheng obtained his Ph. D from our CAB program, mentored by Professors Sheng He and Dan Kersten. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Ohio State University.

Graduated




Congratulations to our recent Department of Psychology Ph. D graduates!

Jordan Sparks Waldron
Area: CSPR
Advisor: William Iacono
Dissertation: The relationship between adolescent alcohol use and functioning in later-young adulthood: Disentangling confounding influences from causal processes using a twin sample

Cheng Qiu
Area: CAB
Advisors: Daniel Kersten and Cheryl Olman
Dissertation: Modulation by visual context beyond local features

Lily He Wang
Area: CAB
Advisor: Wilma Koutstaal

Dissertation: Does bilingualism confer cognitive benefits? A tale of three probes

Grants



Professor Jeff Simpson and his colleagues received a grant from the Australian Research Council titled "Caring for older parents: Determining the role of attachment security." The $427,000 grant will run through 2019.

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