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Two Assistant Professors Selected as 2026-27 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Jaime Castrellon and Yi Feng for being selected as 2026-27 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows. The program provides support and encouragement for the research of promising Assistant Professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research.

Prof. Lieder Receives 2026 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Falk Lieder for receiving a 2026 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award. This award honors the considerable dedication of UCLA faculty who consistently and enthusiastically serve as effective mentors to undergraduate students involved in research or creative inquiry.

Graduate News

Congratulations to Erin Morrow for receiving the 33rd annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lectures Award

Erin Morrow (Cognitive Area) received the 33rd annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lectures Award from the Brain Research Institute. Established in honor of Dr. Samuel Eiduson, the founding Chair of the Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, the award recognizes outstanding graduate student research and scholarship in neuroscience.

Congratulations to Robin Blades for receiving the 2026 Health Psychology Paper Prize

Robin Blades (Health Area) for received the 2026 Health Psychology Paper Prize, awarded to the best paper in the area, for her paper titled “Neural mechanisms of mindfulness: reduced neural reactivity to social-evaluative threat accounts for mindfulness intervention effects on inflammatory gene expression.” The paper was recently published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity and contributes novel findings about the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of mindfulness on markers of inflammation.

Undergrad News

2026 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

Congratulations to the nearly 1,700 students who participated in the Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Celebration this year!

Congratulations to Gold Medalist Alysa Liu!

Congratulations to Alysa Liu for winning the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. She finished the games with two gold medals: her individual medal and one from the team competition. More information is available at the UCLA Newsroom.

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 Zili Liu

Why does the world look the way it does? We experience vision as direct contact with reality. The world appears to be “there,” fully formed in front of us. Yet from the perspective of the brain, perception is an extraordinarily difficult problem. The retinal image is only two-dimensional (2D), incomplete, and fundamentally ambiguous. Many different 3D worlds could produce the same image projected onto the retina. And yet, almost effortlessly, we perceive a stable and coherent reality. My research asks how the brain accomplishes this.

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