Congratulations to Professor Anna Lau for receiving the 2024 National Institute of Mental Health James S. Jackson Memorial Award. Established in 2021, the award honors outstanding researchers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in minority mental health and mental health disparities research, community engagement, and mentorship.
Congratulations to the 41 participants who participated in the Psychology Graduate Hooding Ceremony! We wish our students much success in their futures!
Amalia Ionescu (Developmental Area) and Icy (Yunyi) Zhang (Developmental Area) for received the 2024 Millard Madsen Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award, which recognizes the best developmental dissertation, is typically awarded to one student annually. This year, the award committee chose to honor two dissertations. Amalia’s dissertation is titled “Analogical Reasoning Involving Semantic Relations in Children and Machines.” Icy’s dissertation…
Ben Isenberg (Clinical Area) was selected by the Pritzker Committee for Excellence to receive the fifth annual Pritzker Graduate Scholar Award. The Pritzker Graduate Scholar Award is intended to support graduate students in the Department of Psychology who demonstrate excellence in the conduct of psychological science with the potential for high public impact.
Forty-two doctoral candidates earned their Ph.D., and 1,500 undergraduates received degrees in Psychology, Psychobiology, and Cognitive Science.
Yesenia Aguilar: Charles Y. Nakamura Research, Teaching, and Mentorship AwardNora Barnes-Horowitz: Senior Clinical Scientist AwardWave-Ananda Baskerville: Charles Y. Nakamura Research, Teaching, and Mentorship AwardWave-Ananda Baskerville: Clinical Scientist AwardIbukun Olabinjo: Stanley Sue Distinguished Research AwardAlex Venegas: Michael J. Goldstein Distinguished Dissertation Award
Joni Brown (Health Area) received the 2024 Health Psychology Paper Award for her paper titled “Sexual Socialization Experiences and Perceived Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Young African American Women,” published in Sex Roles.
Robin Blades (Health Area) and Tyrus Korecki (Health Area) for received Trainee Scholar Travel Awards from the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS)
The following nine students received the Division of Graduate Education Dissertation Year Award (DYA). The DYA awards a $20,000 stipend and full tuition and fees to students during their last year of dissertation writing. Du, Meng Social and Affective Neuroscience Fu, Shuhao Cognitive Losiewicz, Olivia Clinical Marshall, Riley Social Martinez, Emily Clinical Meredith, Wesley Developmental…
We are happy to announce that Jessica Jimenez, our Clinic Office Specialist, has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight award for this quarter for her exceptional work in our Psychology Clinic.Throughout her two years in the UCLA Psychology Clinic, Jessica has truly excelled at the wide array of responsibilities she has with respect…