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Graduate Research Mentorship Program Recipients

Congratulations to our Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM) Program recipients! Nine graduate students received the 2021 Graduate Division Graduate Research Mentorship, which is designed to assist students in acquiring and developing advanced research skills under faculty mentorship. Name Area BINNQUIST, ASHLEY SOC BOCANEGRA, ELIZABETH CLIN CHEN, BELINDA CLIN DE GUZMAN, HENRI  BNS FOSSUM, JESSICA QUANT MATOS, LEEZET…

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Recipients

Congratulations to our Graduate Summer Research Mentorship recipients! 38 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. Name Area AGUILAR SILVAN, YESENIA CLIN BINNQUIST, ASHLEY SOC BROWN, JONI HEALTH BYEON, YOUNG VIVIAN CLIN CHEN, BELINDA CLIN DE…

Jordan Thomas receives the APF Henry P. David Research Grant

Congratulations to Jordan Thomas (Clinical Area) for receiving the American Psychological Foundation’s Henry P. David Research Grant! The grant supports research in behavioral aspects of population studies or human reproductive behavior.

Profs. Bob Bjork and Elizabeth Bjork Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Profs. Bob Bjork and Elizabeth Bjork for receiving the Western Psychological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award! To be conferred on April 28, the award recognizes their lifetime of outstanding achievements in teaching, research, and professional involvement.

Distinguished Prof. Patricia Greenfield Receives Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Award

Congratulations to Prof. Greenfield for receiving the 2021 SRCD Distinguished Contributions to the Interdisciplinary Understanding of Child Development Award for her “cutting-edge, integrative work across developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, communication, ecology, economics, textiles, gender/ethnic/racial studies, education, linguistics, primate sciences, pediatrics, and neuroscience.”

Highlighting Faculty Member Idan Blank

Language is our main tool for transferring thoughts from one mind to another. The BlankLangLab studies the mental processes that make language comprehension possible, and the relationship between these linguistic mechanisms and the rest of the human mind. Language is unique to humans: whereas other animals can communicate, their communication channels do not possess the same complex structures, systematic operations, or expressive…

Psychology Staff Spotlight Award – Emilia Ninova

We are happy to announce that Emilia Ninova, our Graduate Admissions Coordinator, has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight award for her outstanding work in Student Services.  Emilia has held this position for three years and managed our record breaking number of 1659 applications to our Ph.D. program this past admissions season.  Emilia…

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Congratulations to the five graduate student recipients of the 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! The NSF GRFP is a prestigious three-year fellowship, which provides a yearly $34,000 stipend and $12,000 in fees. For more information, visit the NSF GRFP website. Mason McClay (Cognitive Area)Fleming Peck (incoming BNS Area)Saul Quintero (Cognitive Area)Tristan Tibbe (Quantitative Area)Mary Vitello (Cognitive Area) Congratulations…