Congratulations to Maira Karan (Developmental Area) for receiving the Norma & Seymour Feshbach Doctoral Dissertation Award. The Norma & Seymour Feshbach Doctoral Dissertation Award provides funds for dissertation research on the reduction of human aggression or on positive social behavior.
Congratulations to Amanda Baker (BNS Area), who received the APA Dissertation Research Award. The purpose of the APA Science Directorate’s Dissertation Research Award program is to assist science-oriented doctoral students of psychology whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology with research costs.
Congratulations to Icy (Yunyi) Zhang (Developmental Area) for receiving the Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS) Graduate Student Fellowship. CSS is an organization based at UCLA dedicated to bridging the gap between scholars and storytellers to promote positive youth development. Fellows will attend a CSS Creative Collaboration (“C-cube), a two-part interdisciplinary think-tank with a goal of better…
Congratulations to Kimberly Martin (Social Area) for being named a recipient of the 2021 Taylor M. Brown Award. The award, established in honor of biosciences graduate student Taylor M. Brown, recognizes exceptional Ph.D. students in the biosciences who reflect the characteristics that made Taylor such a special member of the UCLA community. The awardees are…
Congratulations to Gio Ramos (Clinical Area) and Razia Sahi (Social Area) for receiving the American Psychological Foundation’s (APF) Graduate Student Scholarship. APF awards 21 annual general scholarships for graduate student research.
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Keith Holyoak, who will be awarded the 2022 Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). This high honor in experimental psychology has been awarded since 1936 and will be conferred this year at the SEP meeting in early May. Our department’s previous recipient of the Warren Medal was John…
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Janet Tomiyama for being elected to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research! The Academy is the honorary senior scientist society for those whose research exists at the interface of behavior and medicine. Election to this society is reserved for those with national and international behavioral medicine research excellence.
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Han Du and Amanda Montoya for being named 2022 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Stars! The APS Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their post-PhD research careers “whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.”
Dr. Paquette-Smith conducts research in two distinct areas of cognitive science. Her basic research program (described here) seeks to understand how children and adults perceive and produce speech. Her applied research examines how teachers can optimize student learning in the classroom. No matter where we grew up or what languages we speak, we all have…