July 2016

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Department of Psychology

July 2016

Awards & Accomplishments

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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".

Grants

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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".

Visiting Scholars

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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.

June 2016

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Department of Psychology

June 2016

Awards & Accomplishments

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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

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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

May 2016

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Department of Psychology

May 2016

Administrative Updates & Announcements

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Department of Psychology staff member, Missy Jones, has taken the role of interim Executive Assistant to the Chair, while the Chair’s Office continues the search to fill the open position.

The Department is happy to welcome Nou Yin, the new member of the PsyIT team.  Nou has experience in IT support working in clinics at Hennepin County Medical Center and elsewhere. Nou has certifications in CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, and CompTIA Security+. Nou lives in St. Paul, has three children, and provides volunteer tech support in her community. Stop by Elliott N211 to say hello!

Awards & Accomplishments

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Assistant Professor Bonnie Klimes-Dougan had her paper identified as one of the top 10 most downloaded JCCAP papers in 2016. Congrats Bonnie!

Klimes-Dougan, B., & Garber, J. (2016). Regulatory control and depression in adolescents: Findings from neuroimaging and neuropsychological research. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 45(1), 1-5. doi: 0.1080/15374416.2015.1123637

Our former colleague, Travis Thompson, together with Roy Pickens (formerly in the U of MN Psychiatry Department), received the Peter Dews Award from the Association of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. This award, conferred at the 40th annual Behavioral Pharmacology Conference in San Diego in early April, was based on their seminal book, Behavioral Pharmacology, as well as Professor Thompson's early work on drug self-administration and successes in the training program at Minnesota. It is always nice to hear about these successes among our department alumni!

Graduated

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

Chelsea E. Jenson

Area: I/O

Advisor: Paul Sackett

Dissertation: Is Workplace Coaching a Generic or Goal Specific Intervention? An Examination of Predictors of Goal Progress in Workplace Coaching Engagements

Upcoming Events

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Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the annual recognition celebration for psychology undergraduate students. This annual event recognizes our outstanding undergraduate achievements and graduating seniors.

Friday, May 6th, 2016

4:00pm - 6:00pm at the Campus Club,

Coffman Memorial Union

Those recognized will include:

Spring 2016 Degree Applicants; Mortensen Scholarship & Award recipients; Select CLA, University and National Scholarship recipients; Outstanding achievement in the Major Project: The Sharon Borine Award; 2015-16 UROP recipients; Donor Awards for Psychology Undergraduate Engagement recipients; and 2015-16 Psi Chi Inductees

Please forward any questions to Mike Houlahan, mhoulaha@umn.edu.

Faculty and Staff, please RSVP via our web form here:

Thank you for your support of our undergraduate students!