We are happy to announce that Christian Herr has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight Award for this quarter. Christian works as the Purchasing Specialist in the Financial Services Unit of the Department. Christian started with the Department in February 2020, about a month before the campus transitioned to remote work. That transition brought on many…
Click this news item to review important dates and deadlines for Fall 2020. Monday, Sept. 28th: Quarter begins Thursday, Oct. 1st: Instruction begins Friday, Oct. 9th: All Psych 195, 196, and 199 contracts due by 4:00pm (No exceptions!) Friday, Oct. 16th: Last day To DROP impacted courses To change Study List (add, drop courses) without fee through MyUCLA To enroll…
Dr. Wassum’s research is focused on understanding the neural correlates underlying motivation and decision making and how this information can be harnessed to understand and treat mental illness and substance use disorder. To make good decisions we have to get into the time machine that is our brain and cast ourselves into the future to…
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Vickie Mays for being appointed Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Black Life. Chancellor Block’s full message is available at the UCLA Newsroom.
Congratulations to Distinguished Prof. Vickie Mays, who will receive the 2020 Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Mental Health from the American Public Health Association. Created in 1990, the award annually recognizes one scholar who has made important lifetime contributions to public mental health, and it is one of the highest…
Congratulations to Prof. Tom Bradbury for receiving the 2020 Ernest W. Burgess Award from the National Council on Family Relations. Administered since 1955, the award recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement during the course of a career in the study of families. The recipient is chosen in recognition of continuous and meritorious contributions to theory and research…
We are happy to announce that Jocelyn Rose Coleman, our payroll and student personnel coordinator, has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight award this quarter for her exceptional work as part of our HR team. She joined Psychology in February 2020, right before we transitioned to remote work. She transferred from our UCLA…
Congratulations to Prof. Adriana Galván on her appointment as Dean of Undergraduate Education! The article is available at the UCLA Newsroom.
Congratulations to Prof. Martin Monti, winner of the 2020 Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award (Associate Professor) for his paper Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Thalamic Stimulation in Disorders of Consciousness after Severe Brain Injury: A First-in-Man Report.
Congratulations to Prof. Jen Silvers on her receipt of the Boyd McCandless Award conferred by the American Psychological Association Division of Developmental Psychology (Div 7). The award recognizes a scientist who has earned the Ph.D. within the past seven years and “has made a distinguished theoretical contribution to developmental psychology, has conducted programmatic research of distinction, or…