Congratulations to Professor Janet Tomiyama for being voted the 83rd President-Elect of the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (SBSM; formerly the American Psychosomatic Society).
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Jaimie Krems for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. The five-year grant will support Jaimie’s research on friendship.
Congratulations to Distinguished Research Professor Greg Miller, who will be inducted to the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society. The society recognizes UCLA faculty for excellence in mentoring and honors faculty who have contributed to the professional development of early and mid-career faculty at UCLA, especially the mentorship of underrepresented faculty with respect to identities such…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Amanda Montoya for being accepted to the 2024 UCLA Innovation Fellows program, which is designed to advance innovative faculty projects into new startups or non-profits.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yi Feng for being elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group at the American Educational Research Association. Her 2-year term will be from 2024-2026.
Congratulations to Professor Carrie Bearden for being elected President-Elect and to Assistant Professor Tiffany Ho for being elected Junior Councilor of the Society of Biological Psychiatry Council. Carrie’s term as President-Elect will be June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025, and she will become President on June 1, 2025 until May 31, 2026. Tiffany’s 2-year…
Congratulations to Jaime Castrellon (who will be joining our department as an Assistant Professor in July) for being named a 2024 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). The APS Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their post-PhD research careers “whose innovative work has already advanced the…
Congratulations to Professor Lara Ray for receiving the Nancy Petry Mid-Career Award from the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50 of the American Psychological Association). The award recognizes individuals who embody qualities of excellence, leadership, and dedication in mentoring, research, and service in addiction science.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Jen Sumner for being elected to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR). ABMR is the premier honorary scientific organization for scientists working at the interface of behavior and medicine.
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Michelle Craske and Professor Carrie Bearden for being named among the most influential researchers worldwide this year. The Highly Cited Researchers list, compiled each year by analytics firm Clarivate, identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past decade. Researchers…