Congratulations to Professor Emerita Elizabeth Bjork for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy recognizes exceptional leaders across the sciences, humanities, arts, business, and public affairs. Election to the Academy is a significant honor, reflecting Elizabeth’s outstanding contributions to scholarship and the broader intellectual community.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yi Feng for receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Division D of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This annual award recognizes a dissertation that makes an outstanding contribution to methodology in educational research.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dave Clewett for being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Awarded annually since 1955, the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of…
Several faculty (including Naomi Eisenberger, Tom Bradbury, Shelley Taylor, Anne Peplau, Matt Lieberman, Jaimie Krems, Yuen Huo, Ted Robles, Adriana Galván, Andrew Fuligni, and Ben Karney) were quoted or mentioned in a UCLA Magazine article titled “The Science of Connection.”
Congratulations to Research Professor Steve Reise for receiving the 2025 Walter G. Klopfer Award from the Society for Personality Assessment for his paper titled “Understanding Alpha and Beta and Sources of Common Variance: Theoretical Underpinnings and a Practical Example.” This award is given for the best empirical paper published in the Journal of Personality Assessment within a…
Congratulations to Professor Howard Adelman for receiving the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Scholar Award from the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) in recognition of his public impact and contribution to researcher and policymaker engagement. This award is given to scholars who have demonstrated commitment to achieving the public benefit of research at scale through public policy relationships by engaging…
Congratulations to Distinguished Research Professor Andrew Christensen for receiving the 2025 Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award for Research from the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. He was selected for the award based on his numerous and outstanding contributions to the profession through scholarship, supervision, development of innovative interventions, and professional involvement at the state, national, and international…
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Michelle Craske for being named among the world’s most influential scholars, according to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past 11 years. Researchers selected for the…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Amanda Montoya for being appointed as the next Chair of the American Psychological Association (APA) Open Science and Methodology (OSM) Expert Panel. Her two-year term will be from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027.
Congratulations to the following faculty for being appointed to term chairs endowed by Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey. Avi Adhikari has been appointed to the Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey Term Endowed Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience. Bridget Callaghan has been appointed to the Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey Term Endowed Chair in Developmental Neuroscience. Dave…