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Prof. Tomiyama Receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring

Congratulations to Professor Janet Tomiyama for being one of three faculty to receive an inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the Division of Graduate Education. The award recognizes faculty who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring and supporting graduate students.

Prof. Montoya Appointed to Center for Open Science Board of Directors

Congratulations to Associate Professor Amanda Montoya for being appointed to the Center for Open Science (COS) Board of Directors. She will serve a three-year term from 2025 to 2027. More information is available at the COS website.

 

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 Jaime Castrellon

What drives people to make certain decisions—and why do motivations vary? My lab studies the cognitive and neural mechanisms of motivation and value-based choice. We are especially interested in how people weigh costs and benefits in decisions that impact themselves and others.

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