Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Hyon (Social Area) for receiving the Shelley Taylor Dissertation Award, which honors an exceptionally meritorious dissertation completed by a graduate student whose primary advisor is in the Social Area. Dr. Hyon’s dissertation was titled “Investigating the Relationship Between Individual Differences in the Brain and Social Network Structure.”
Congratulations to Dr. João Guassi Moreira (Developmental Area) for receiving the Millard Madsen Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best developmental dissertation.
Congratulations to Ruby Basyouni (Social Area) for receiving the Harold H. Kelley Award for her paper titled “Mapping the Social Landscape: Tracking Patterns of Interpersonal Relationships.” The Kelley Award has been given since 1997 and honors an exceptionally meritorious research paper addressing basic issues or theory in social psychology.
Congratulations to the following graduate students for receiving Clinical Area awards. Nora Barnes-Horowitz: Clinician Scientist Award Morgan Bartholomew: Michael J. Goldstein Distinguished Dissertation Award Belinda Chen: Stanley Sue Distinguished Research Award Lindsay Meredith: Charles Y. Nakamura Research, Teaching, and Mentorship Award Allison Metts: Charles Y. Nakamura Research, Teaching, and Mentorship Award Gio Ramos: Senior Clinician…
Congratulations to Juan Luis Romero Sosa (BNS Area) for being selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience. The Neuroscience Scholars Program is a two-year online training program open to underrepresented graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Patricia Greenfield (PI) and Developmental Area graduate student Rocio Burgos-Calvillo (Co-PI) on receiving a Latinx Studies Seed Grant for their project titled “Cultural Mismatch in Peer Relations: A Natural Experiment in UCLA’s Living/Learning Communities.”
Congratulations to the following students for receiving Psychology Department Endowed Fellowships. Thank you to our generous donors for making this possible! Meng Du (Social Area) received the 2022 Liu Yunghuo Bei Qui Memorial Fellowship. Lindsay Meredith (Clinical Area) received the 2022 Nancy M. Biram Research Fund in Life Sciences. Jacqueline Perez (Social Area) received the…
Congratulations to Jordan Parker (Health Area) for receiving the 2022 Graduate Student Award from APA Division 35 Section 1 (Psychology of Black Women). This award recognizes the work of a Black woman graduate student in psychology for a paper evaluated on its creativity, innovation and the degree to which it furthers understanding of the role…
Congratulations to Stephanie Yu (Clinical Area)for receiving the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP)/APA Division 53 2022 Student Achievement Award in Research. The award recognize students who have made a significant contribution to the field of clinical child and adolescent psychology, primarily through work on a recent research project but also through teaching, mentoring,…
Congratulations to Wesley Meredith (Developmental Area) for being selected to participate in the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience training program. The Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, supported by NIMH, NIDA and the Kavli Foundation, advances the cognitive neurosciences by training the next generation of researchers in emerging information, methods and theoretical perspectives in mind-brain science, including how this knowledge…