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Department of Psychology
July 2016
Awards & Accomplishments
Awards & Accomplishments
Andrea Miller (PhD, JD) completed her 2015-16
post-doctoral research fellowship at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago,
and has accepted a 3-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Psychology
at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Andrea was co-advised by
Professors Eugene Borgida and Chris Federico.
Lauren Mitchell, a graduate student in the PIB
area, has won the Mixed Methods Interdisciplinary Graduate Group Scholarship to
help support her dissertation work.
Graduate student Joe Vitriol, of
our Social psychology area, has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship in the
Department of Psychology at Lehigh University for 2016-2018, where he will be
working with Dominc Packer and Gordon Moskowitz. Joe is co-advised by Professors
Eugene Borgida and Mark Snyder.
Mindy Westlund Schreiner, a graduate
student of our CSPR area, received a Distinguished Contribution Award for her
poster titled "Heightened Amygdala-Insula Connectivity at Rest Corresponds
to Rejection Sensitivity in Adolescents with Self-Injury".
Assistant Professor Chun Wang, along with
Gongjun Xu from the School of Statistics, received a two-year grant ($195K)
from the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) to conduct a methodological
study entitled "Methods for Addressing Measurement Error Issues in
Longitudinal Educational Studies".
Professor Koichi Oda from
Tokyo Woman's Christian University is visiting during the summer as part of his
sabbatical leave. He is hosted by Professor Gordon Legge. Koichi and Gordon
will be working together to update the Japanese version of the MNREAD reading
acuity test for an iPad app.