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
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.
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.
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.
