Congratulations to Professors Michelle Craske and Steven Reise for making the list of the world’s most influential scientific researchers of 2020! The article is available at the UCLA Newsroom.
A study by Professor Martie Haselton, Graduate Student Benjamin Seitz, and 10 additional scientists, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is being prominently featured on the UCLA Newsroom and is generating substantial news coverage. The researchers found that COVID-19 and America’s response to it are likely to profoundly affect our families, work lives, relationships, and gender roles for years….
Many thanks to Distinguished Professor David Sears for his very important gift to the Department of Psychology. In recognition of David’s extraordinary donation, the graduate student lounge in the renovated Pritzker Hall will be named the David O. Sears Graduate Student Lounge. David has dedicated six decades to teaching and mentoring UCLA students; it is…
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Vickie Mays for being appointed Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Black Life. Chancellor Block’s full message is available at the UCLA Newsroom.
Congratulations to Distinguished Prof. Vickie Mays, who will receive the 2020 Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Mental Health from the American Public Health Association. Created in 1990, the award annually recognizes one scholar who has made important lifetime contributions to public mental health, and it is one of the highest…
Congratulations to Prof. Tom Bradbury for receiving the 2020 Ernest W. Burgess Award from the National Council on Family Relations. Administered since 1955, the award recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement during the course of a career in the study of families. The recipient is chosen in recognition of continuous and meritorious contributions to theory and research…
Congratulations to Prof. Adriana Galván on her appointment as Dean of Undergraduate Education! The article is available at the UCLA Newsroom.
Congratulations to Prof. Martin Monti, winner of the 2020 Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award (Associate Professor) for his paper Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Thalamic Stimulation in Disorders of Consciousness after Severe Brain Injury: A First-in-Man Report.
Congratulations to Prof. Jen Silvers on her receipt of the Boyd McCandless Award conferred by the American Psychological Association Division of Developmental Psychology (Div 7). The award recognizes a scientist who has earned the Ph.D. within the past seven years and “has made a distinguished theoretical contribution to developmental psychology, has conducted programmatic research of distinction, or…
With sadness, the Department of Psychology at UCLA reports that Morton P. Friedman, a key figure in this Department’s emergence to national prominence, passed away during Fall 2019. In addition to Chairing our Experimental Psychology Area (before there were separate Cognitive and Learning and Behavior Areas), “Mort” (as everybody on campus called him), contributed to…