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…
Congratulations to Siôbhan Glynn (Developmental Area) for receiving the Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship is to support graduate students from across the UCLA campus who exemplify values of diversity in their academic, professional, and service activities.
Congratulations to Sara Schiff (Clinical Area) for receiving the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) Travel Grant. Funded through donations from friends and supporters of CSW, travel grants assist UCLA students with travel expenses related to academic or professional conference presentations and field research on women, gender, and sexuality.
Congratulations to our Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM) Program recipients! The following 13 graduate students received the Graduate Division Graduate Research Mentorship, which is designed to assist students in acquiring and developing advanced research skills under faculty mentorship. BASKERVILLE, WAVE-ANANDA (CLIN)CRUZ, ALONDRA (QUANT) DENNING, JOSEPH (COG) GANCZ, NAOMI (DEV) MACNAUGHTON, GABRIELLE (CLIN)MARTINEZ, EMILY (CLIN)MCKINNEY, RACHEL (CLIN)…
Congratulations to Jordan Parker (Health Area) for receiving the Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, Graduate Award from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. This award recognizes an outstanding research report, master’s thesis, dissertation, or published article related to women and health or women in health-related endeavors. It is named for Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, the first…
Congratulations to Wesley Meredith (Developmental Area) for being awarded a National Institutes of Health T32 Predoctoral Fellowship with the Brain and Behavioral Development during Adolescence Program.
Congratulations to our Graduate Summer Research Mentorship recipients! 36 graduate students received the Graduate Division Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, which provides financial support for conducting research under the close mentorship of a faculty member this summer. AGADZHANYAN, KARINA (COG)ALBERTS, KYLIE (COG)ALONZI, SARAH (HEALTH)AL-SUWAIDI, MAHA (CLIN)BARNES-HOROWITZ, NORA (CLIN)BASKERVILLE, WAVE-ANANDA (CLIN)BIRD, CHRISTINE (CLIN)BURGOS-CALVILLO, ROCIO (DEV)CHEN, BELINDA (CLIN)CRUZ,…
Congratulations to Claudia Aguirre (BNS Area) for receiving a fellowship award from the Enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Substance Abuse (eIRTI) at the University of Southern California. The program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),…