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Prof. Izquierdo Receives National Award of Excellence in Mentorship

Congratulations to Professor Alicia Izquierdo for receiving the 2024 National Award of Excellence in Mentorship from the National Hispanic Science Network. The award is presented to a senior investigator who has provided outstanding mentorship in the area of Hispanic drug abuse to graduate students and/or new investigators, resulting in peer-reviewed publications or successful grant applications.

Prof. Brannon Receives Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize

Congratulations to Associate Professor Tiffany Brannon for receiving the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for her article titled “Pride-and-Prejudice Perspectives of Marginalization Can Advance Science and Society.” The award recognizes the author of an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to personality and social psychology within a given year.

 

Graduate News


Congratulations to Kaia Sargent for winning the Student Poster Award

Congratulations to Kaia Sargent (Behavioral Neuroscience Area) for winning the Student Poster Award (poster title “Brain-body dysconnectivity: Deficient autonomic regulation of cortical function in first-episode schizophrenia”) at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Prague.

Congratulations to Wesley Meredith and to Haley Wang for receiving American Psychological Foundation Graduate Research Scholarships.

Congratulations to Wesley Meredith (Developmental Area) and to Haley Wang (Clinical Area) for receiving  American Psychological Foundation (APF)/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP) Graduate Research Scholarships. The purpose of the scholarship program is to assist graduate students of psychology with research costs associated with the master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation.

Undergrad News


2024 Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

Congratulations to the nearly 1300 students who participated in the Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Celebration this year!

Transforming Psychology


A New Era for UCLA Psychology

Please visit our Transforming Psychology website for information about exciting plans to transform UCLA’s iconic Psychology Tower (now named Pritzker Hall) into a collaborative, modern learning and research environment for one of the nation’s top psychology departments.

Faculty Spotlight


Highlighting Faculty Member Yi Feng

There are often gaps between the various research questions that psychology researchers seek to investigate and the availability of proper statistical tools that can effectively address them. My work is dedicated to closing these gaps by developing innovative statistical tools that can be applied to increasingly complex applied research scenarios.

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