Awards & Accomplishments
Professor
of Psychology and Law, Eugene Borgida, and Richard Zweigenhaft, Guilford College
professor of psychology, co-edited a book titled ”Collaboration in
Psychological Science: Behind the Scenes.” In addition to the Introduction and Conclusion
that he and his co-author wrote, Borgida is the author of one of the chapters,
“It takes a village: Interdisciplinary research collaboration in political
psychology.” Thirty-five psychologists, who have collaborated
extensively with a wide range of scholars from multiple disciplines over the
course of their careers, wrote the other 20 chapters. The essays explore the
many benefits of collaborating, as well as the pitfalls that can lead to difficult
or even nightmare collaborative experiences. Best practices for collaborative
scholarship are identified and discussed. Peter Salovey, the
president of Yale University, wrote the foreward to the book, which has been
published by Worth Publishers (a division of Macmillan Learning).
Emeritus Professor, Gloria Leon, was featured in an
article in the Minnesota Daily. The article focuses on her studies of groups of
people in isolation to gauge the compatibility of astronaut teams. The article
can be found here.
Graduate Student Jeremy Harper received
a Travel Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology at the 2016
conference in Baltimore, Maryland, for his poster presentation titled
"Testing the effects of adolescent alcohol use on adult conflict-related
theta dynamics.” This work was conducted with Regents Professor Bill Iacono and
Steve Malone.
Graduated
Graduated
Congratulations to our recent Department of Psychology Ph. D
graduates!
Ian Ramsay
Area: CSPR
Advisor: Angus MacDonald
Dissertation: Neural Impact of
Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Lovey Walker
Area: Counseling
Advisors: Moin Syed
and Richard Lee
Dissertation:
Processes of Identity Integration: An Examination of Sports & Ethnic
Identities
Grants
Grants
Regents Professor Matt McGue was
awarded a 5-year continuation of a R01 grant that was originally awarded in
1992 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The continuation is in the amount of 3.1
million dollars, in order to continue a prospective cotwin control study on
adolescent drinking and midlife outcomes.
Professor Richard Lee is part of an
interdisciplinary team that was awarded one of the University's Grand Challenge
Research Grants.
The proposed project -
Reminders for Readiness (R4R) – is to develop, pilot and study the
implementation and initial impact of a universally available, low cost,
personalized e- communication (text-messaging) system to support parents in
promoting their children’s healthy development. The immediate objectives are to
1) establish strong partnerships with communities and stakeholders; 2) lay the
parent recruitment infrastructure necessary to launch a sustainable system; 3)
develop and launch relevant, culturally-responsive content for general
messaging and text tailored to individual child needs; and 4) analyze the
implementation of the partnerships, e- communication system, and pilot
messaging to evaluate this partnership approach and the impact of this platform
on infants and toddlers (0 – 3 years old), and their parents. We propose to
start with messaging about well-child visits, immunizations, screening and
service-venue use - outcomes that can be readily assessed, allowing a test of
the utility of the service.
Regents Professor Matt McGue was
awarded a 5-year continuation of a R01 grant that was originally awarded in
1992 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The continuation is in the amount of 3.1
million dollars, in order to continue a prospective cotwin control study on
adolescent drinking and midlife outcomes.
Professor Richard Lee is part of an
interdisciplinary team that was awarded one of the University's Grand Challenge
Research Grants.
The proposed project -
Reminders for Readiness (R4R) – is to develop, pilot and study the
implementation and initial impact of a universally available, low cost,
personalized e- communication (text-messaging) system to support parents in
promoting their children’s healthy development. The immediate objectives are to
1) establish strong partnerships with communities and stakeholders; 2) lay the
parent recruitment infrastructure necessary to launch a sustainable system; 3)
develop and launch relevant, culturally-responsive content for general
messaging and text tailored to individual child needs; and 4) analyze the
implementation of the partnerships, e- communication system, and pilot
messaging to evaluate this partnership approach and the impact of this platform
on infants and toddlers (0 – 3 years old), and their parents. We propose to
start with messaging about well-child visits, immunizations, screening and
service-venue use - outcomes that can be readily assessed, allowing a test of
the utility of the service.
