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…
Former Bruin seeks to end stigma around anxiety and depression The Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love, a former Bruin basketball player who has publicly shared his struggles with panic attacks, anxiety and depression, has committed $500,000 through his foundation — matched by a $500,000 UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match — to establish the Kevin Love Fund…
Congratulations to the 1,215 students who will be awarded Bachelor’s Degrees this year from the UCLA Psychology Department! Although we are unable to celebrate your accomplishments in person, we are so very proud of all you have achieved during this extraordinary time. We wish our students much success and look forward to the opportunity to…
Congratulations to all our Psychology Department graduates receiving the Doctor of Philosophy, the Ph.D., the highest academic degree awarded by the university. Although we are unable to hold our usual commencement activities this year, all graduates will be invited to join our Hooding Ceremony next year. Sixteen candidates are being honored in the 2020 Psychology Virtual…
Welcome to the Department of Psychology! If you are a prospective UCLA student interested in learning more about the Psychology department at UCLA, our different majors and minors, research and internship opportunities, and more — click this news item! Welcome to the Department of Psychology! Here at UCLA, we present psychology as a scientific discipline…