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Department of Psychology
June 2016
Awards & Accomplishments
Awards & Accomplishments
The Department's Diversity Committee received the
Joan Adlous Diversity and Public Engagement grant of $5000 to host a Diversity
in Psychological Science colloquium series for 2016-2017.
Professor
Gene Borgida, along with Richard L. Zweigenhaft of Guilford College, had their
book titled “Collaboration in Psychological Science Behind the Scenes” recently
published by Worth Publishers. The book includes insights from leading
collaborative researchers.
Karla Wang and Shamni Uthayasoorian, undergraduate
psychology majors, Counseling Psychology graduate students Majel Baker and
Viann Nguyen-Feng, and their faculty advisor Pat Frazier received a Poster
Merit Award for their recent poster at the annual meeting of the Minnesota
Psychological Association. The title of the poster was "Do Emotional
Stability, Social Support, or Self Esteem Buffer the Effects of Childhood
Emotional Abuse on Depression?"
Professor Fang
Fang, a former graduate of our department, has been selected to receive the
2016 Young Investigator Award (Basic Science) by the International Union of
Psychological Science (IUPsyS) on 25 July 2016 during the forthcoming 31st
International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016) in Yokohama, Japan. As a student, Fang Fang was advised by Professors Sheng
He, Daniel Kersten, and Gordon Legge. He is currently the Chair of the
Department of Psychology at Peking University,
the Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental
Health, and the Executive Associate Director of the IDG/McGovern Institute for
Brain Research.
Graduated
Graduated
Congratulations to our recent Department of Psychology Ph. D graduate!
Dustin R. Meriwether
Area: CAB
Advisors: Wilma Koutstaal and Randy Fletcher
Dissertation: Sequential Difficulty Effects on Task
Performance: Pervasive, Persistent, and Protean