• Jamie Edgin, a postdoctoral fellow with Lynn Nadel, received the Charles Epstein Award from the National Down Syndrome Society, which will provide 2 years of support for her project entitled, "Beyond 21: Factors affecting neuropsychological development in Down Syndrome." Congratulations Jamie! (04-27-2009)
  
  
• Congratulations to Craig McFarland, who was awarded a SBSRI Dissertation Research Grant, for his project entitled "Implementation Intentions Among Older Adults."
  
  Congratulations to Filippo Rossi and David Yokum, who were awarded a SBSRI Pre-Doc Graduate Research Grant for their project entitled "Randomization and Fairness."
  
  Congratulations to Paul Gladden, who was awarded a SBSRI Pre-Doc Graduate Research Grant for his project entitled "Individual Differences in Altruistic Punishment." (04-17-2009)
  
  
• Congratulations to two undergraduate Honors students working in Mary Peterson's lab, Stephen Adamo and Maureen Turner who were each awarded $1500 Undergraduate Research Grants from the Honors College for the summer and fall of 2009. (04-17-2009)
  
  
• Congratulations to Beth Salvagio and Katrina Nicholas who were awarded a one-semester Cognitive Science Fellowship for 2009-2010. (04-17-2009)
  
  
• Congratulations to Dr. Cecile McKee and Katrina Nicholas! They recently received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Katrina's dissertation project is entitled, "Psycholinguistic studies of prepositions in English and Icelandic." She is tentatively going to Iceland in September and October to work with children and adults. (04-13-2009)
  
  
• Congratulations to graduate student Laura Kirsch, who was recently awarded second place in this year's American Psychology-Law Society's (APLS) Dissertation Award competition. The award will be presented at a ceremony at the upcoming conference in March, where Laura will be presenting her research as a poster. (01-29-2009)
  
  
• Congratulations to Jim Cavanagh! He recently received an NRSA Fellowship Award from NIH for his project titled, "How Stress Alters Neural Systems of Reinforcement: A Model of Depressive Etiology." (09-08-2008)
  
  
• Congratulations to Drs. Andrea Chambers and Maria Marquine, 2008 co-winners of the Gwen Weiner Dissertation Award. This award is funded by Ms. Gwen Weiner, a member of the SBS Advisory Council, for an outstanding thesis by a student in clinical psychology. The Dissertation Award is selected based on the quality of the empirical research and the study's relevance to the treatment or understanding of clinical disorders. Dr. Marquine's dissertation is entitled: Self-knowledge and self-referential processing in memory disorders: Implications for neuropsychological rehabilitation. Dr. Chambers's dissertation is entitled: Relaxation during pregnancy to reduce stress and anxiety and their associated complications. Congratulations to our two winders of this inaugural award! (08-21-2008)
  
  
• Psychology Professor Terry Daniel and Assistant Professor Reid Fontaine were both successful in their competition for a 2008/2009 Udall Center Fellowship. Dr. Daniel's award was one of two Udall fellowships offered by the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE), and Dr. Fontaine's award was one of two offered by Dean Ed Donnerstein and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The fellowships provide for one semester's release from teaching to pursue policy-related research and scholarship. (04-17-2008)
  
  
• Antisocial Behavior and Decision Making Linked
  Research on teenagers has found that there may be a link between the withdrawn nature of some and the decisions they make. The newly published findings are based on research led by Reid G. Fontaine, an assistant professor of psychology and a program director in the UA James E. Rogers College of Law. More at: http://uanews.org/node/18950 (03-26-2008)
  
  
• Professor Dick Bootzin, will be receiving the Sleep Research Society 2008 Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award at the opening ceremonies at the Society meeting in June, 2008. (03-25-2008)
  
  
• Two of our outstanding psychology graduate students have been successful in competition for research grants from the college Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute: Siobhan Hoscheidt has been awarded a pre-doctoral graduate research grant, and Chun-Yu Lin has been awarded a dissertation research grant. (03-17-2008)
  
  
• Arezu Corella, Psychology's Academic Advising Coordinator has won two prestigious UA awards: the UA Program for Excellence in Advising, Professional Advisor Award; and the University Staff Award for Excellence. (03-14-2008)
  
  
• The Department of Psychology has been selected to receive the 2008 Provost's Meritorious Departmental Achievement in Undergraduate Education Aware, which will be presented at the UA Awards of Distinction ceremony on April 16, 2008. (02-19-2008)
  
  
• Dr. Matthias Mehl was listed as one of the ten most cited assistant professors in social psychology, in the most recent issue of Dialogue, the newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, within an article reporting on an empirical analysis of the quality of graduate programs in social psychology. (01-09-2008)
  
  
• Psychology Department Wraps Up Remarkable Semester of Achievement (01-09-2008)
  
  
• Psychology Honors undergraduate student Loran Kelly has been named as the Honors College Outstanding Graduating Senior. (12-17-2007)    --- Read more...
  
  
• In the 11/12/07 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the third annual Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index was published, rating and ranking 173 disciplines. Overall, the U. of A., not surprisingly, did quite well, with several departments and programs within the top ten nationally.
   
  Our own Clinical Psychology Program faculty were ranked #3 Nationally. http://chronicle.com/ (11-13-2007)
  
  
• A psychology undergraduate student and a recently completed Ph.D. Student walked away with multiple prizes for their research posters at the November 2 & 3, 2007 UA Student Showcase, held in conjunction with Homecoming weekend. (11-05-2007)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Professor Mary Peterson has recently been elected Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society for 2009! She will be Chair-Elect in 2008, then Chair in 2009, then Past-Chair in 2010. The Psychonomic Society is a prestigious scientific organization that promotes the communication of scientific research in psychology and allied sciences, and has approximately 2,500 current members. Membership in the Psychonomic Society requires a significant research publication record and nomination by a Society member. (10-26-2007)
  
  
• Psychology Distinguished Professor John Allen was recently elected President-Elect of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). SPR was founded in 1960, and is an international scientific society with a membership of over 800 worldwide. (10-25-2007)
  
  
• Apply to our Graduate Program (10-22-2007)
  
  
• Dr. Stephanie Fryberg has been awarded the UA's Five-Star Teaching Award, and Dr. Toni Schmader has been awarded the SBS Dean's Magellan Award for Excellence in Instruction. (04-06-2007)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Dr. Jeff Greenberg feature in Chicago Tribune: Research tries to measure how we find life's meaning (03-26-2007)    --- Link to relevant site...
  
  
• Psychology department Undergraduate Academic Advising group (Arezu Corella, Bethany Johnson, Taylor Robertson, Christy Winkelman, and Maggie Anderson) was presented with the Team Award for Excellence at yesterday's UA staff awards ceremony. (04-14-2006)
  
  
• Todd Burgess awarded SBS Staff Award for Excellence. (04-14-2006)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology graduate student Alisha Watts has been awarded a three-year NSF fellowship. (04-14-2006)
  
  
• John Allen Named as University Distinguished Professor! (02-27-2006)    --- Read more...
  
  
• PhD applicants can now check their status online at http://psychology.arizona.edu/admissions/ (12-22-2005)
  
  
• Nicole Kitei accepts postdoctoral fellowship at Yale's Department of Psychiatry with emphasis in Law-Psychiatry. (12-21-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Seven Psychology graduate students win SBSRI Research Awards. (12-07-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Regents Professor Lynn Nadel has been named as the 2006 winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Achievement in Psychology. (12-01-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Grad Student Logan Trujillo wins 2005 American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award! (11-22-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Grad Student Eric Jackson wins APF Scholarship. (11-17-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology graduate student Barbra Bendlin and undergraduates Olga Ayon and Alvin Jin won awards for their research posters at the 2005 UA Student Showcase. (11-15-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Graduate Student Willoughby Britton received a travel grant to present a paper at the 2005 Congress of the World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies in New Delhi, India. (10-06-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Professor Richard Bootzin, Department of Psychology, received a travel grant from the Foreign Travel Grant Committee of the UA Office of International Affairs to attend the 2005 Congress of the World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies held in New Delhi, India. (10-06-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Professor Richard Bootzin, Department of Psychology, gave a colloquium, "Nonpharmacological treatments for insomnia" at the Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, Japan, September 15, 2005. (10-06-2005)
  
  
• Graduate student Marisa Menchola has been awarded a Mental Health Dissertation Research Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (10-04-2005)
  
  
• Graduate student Logan Trujillo has been selected as a recipient of the highly competitive UA BIO5 Graduate Fellowship. (05-18-2005)
  
  
• Drs. Matthias Mehl and Anouk Scheres have been awarded small grants in the Spring competition organized by the Office of the Vice President for Research. (04-29-2005)
  
  
• Dr. Alan Sanfey and graduate student Amanda Fanniff have been awarded Summer Research Grant Development stipends by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute. (04-29-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Professor John Allen wins 2005 Graduate College Graduate and Professional Education Teaching and Mentoring Award. (04-28-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Brant Hasler, Leisha Smith, Jen Cousins, Tricia Haynes, Jenne Breslin, & Megan Ruiter win APSS travel awards! (04-26-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Graduate Student Chun-Yu Lin has received a graduate student travel award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, to present his work at their annual meeting in Toronto, Canada, this June. (04-25-2005)
  
  
• Psychology Graduate Student Kateri McRae and former graduate student Jeannine Morrone-Strupinski have both received travel awards to present their work at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting in Toronto this June. (04-25-2005)
  
  
• Advisor Taylor Robertson has been named as a recipeint of one of this year's SBS staff awards. (04-15-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• The Honors Research Forum will be held Friday, April 15 from 2-4 p.m. in the fourth floor hallway of the psychology building. (04-11-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology graduate student Andrea Chambers has won the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholar Award for her dissertation research. (04-11-2005)
  
  
• Psychology Professort Richard Bootzin receives Graduate/Professional Student Advisor of the Year Award for 2005. (04-07-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Research of Lauren Kong, a graduate student in Psychology, was featured in the March 2005 issue of GradPsych. (03-18-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Dusana Rybarova has been awarded an SBS Research Institute Pre-Doctoral Graduate Research Grant. (03-18-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Undergraduate psychology major Jessie Kosorok has been awarded a Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant. (03-18-2005)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology graduate student Eric Jackson has been awarded a Social and Behavioral Science dissertation research grant. (03-04-2005)
  
  
• Applicants to the Psychology graduate programs can now check their application satus online. (02-10-2005)
  
  
• Psychology graduate student Willoughby Britton is being awarded a competitive Summer (2005) Research Grant by the Mind and Life Institute. (01-04-2005)
  
  
• Psychology and Cognitive Science Professor Mary Peterson has been elected to The Society of Experimental Psychologists (12-08-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Graduate Students Jennifer Breslin and Katia Harle have both been awarded Pre-Doctoral Graduate Research Grants by the Social and Behavioral Science Research Institute. (12-07-2004)
  
  
• Psychology graduate student Trudy Kuo has been selected a recipient of the Betty B. Chastain Educational Foundation Scholarship. (12-07-2004)
  
  
• Psychology Grad Student Ben Shachar wins SPR Best Student Paper Award (11-19-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Waiting lists for Psychology and INDV classes are now open. Psychology or INDV (11-15-2004)
  
  
• Psychology undergraduate Research Assistants Mary Kim and Ben McKenna, working in the Lab of Professor Jake Jacobs, won the top 2 honors in the Undergraduate Social Sciences division of the UA Student Showcase, 2004. (11-15-2004)
  
  
• Psychology Professor Mary Peterson Elected to Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society (11-05-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Professors Bruce NcNaughton and Carol Barnes, were recently honored with election to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. (11-03-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Eric Jackson and John Allen receive awards at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Research. (10-26-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Jasmeet Pannu and Al Kazniak present research "Feeling of Knowing for Faces: An fMRI Study" at Society for Neuroscience conference. (10-26-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Al Kazniak to discuss "The Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease" at the October Distinguished Lecture. (09-29-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Annual Graduate Student Progress Report August 2004 can be downloaded. Click for the preferred version: html or pdf. (08-27-2004)
  
  
• John Allen receives new NIH grant for EEG asymmetry & depression risk study (08-02-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Carol Barnes wins NIH MERIT award. (07-15-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Professor Mary Peterson has been awarded two new three-year grants from the National Science Foundation. (07-12-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Psychology Assistant Professor Toni Schmader wins NIMH Grant to study Stereotype Threat (06-18-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Heather Peters has received the outstanding thesis award from the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. (06-10-2004)
  
  
• Dick Bootzin was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society. (05-17-2004)
  
  
• Professor Gary Schwartz wins Distinguished Scientist Award for Contributions to Energy Psychology. (04-22-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Drs. Schmader & Stone win VRP Small Grant! (04-21-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Judith Becker wins Mortar Board Citation Award! (04-21-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Dusana Rybarova & Willoughby Britton selected for Mind and Life Workshop (04-21-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Clinical Psychology Graduate Program Receives Full 7 Years of APA Accreditation! (04-21-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Congratulations to Marchelle Barquissau on Summer Grant Development Award (04-21-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Additional Psychology Course Waitlist Info effective Monday April 26, 2004 (04-21-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Direct link to the Psychology Course Waitinglists: http://psych.arizona.edu/waiting/waitinglists2.cgi (04-21-2004)
  
  
• Graduate Student Logan Trujillo has been awarded one of the three highly competitive University of Arizona Institute for Biomedical Science and Biotechnology (IBSB) graduate research fellowships for Academic Year 2004/2005. (04-19-2004)
  
  
• Scott Hayes awarded summer NIMH fellowship (04-12-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• David Sbarra to join us as our newest clinical faculty member! (02-24-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Faculty John Allen and Al Kaszniak each receive University Awards (02-24-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• For Fall 2004 registration, we will begin a new registration process for Psychology courses in order to help students get the courses they need. (02-23-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Congratulations to Elaine Bailey, Shaun Cook, & Jill Stinson (02-23-2004)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Congratulations to Michael Valdiserri [and Charlie Alcaraz (undergraduate)] on winning first place ($200) in the graduate division in Social Sciences in the GPSC Student Showcase, for the poster: Neuropsychological Correlates and Predictors of Self-Consciousness. (11-20-2003)
  
  
• Congratulations to Grad students Balcomb, Britton, Hasler, and Marquine (11-19-2003)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Professor Bob Bechtel has won a Fullbright Senior Specialist award that he will use to travel to Peru, where he will give a paper to the 29th Congress of InterAmerican Psychology about the survival of environmental psychology as a discipline. (06-26-2003)    --- Read more...
  
  
• At the April 26-27, 2003 Festschrift for Lee Sechrest held at the UA, Lee was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Psychological Society, in addition to being presented with a plaque honoring his many contributions to the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs. (05-06-2003)
  
  
• Lynn Nadel has been named as a new Regents Professor. This is the highest rank and distinction given to university faculty members, and the first Regents Professorship given to anyone in Psychology at the UA. (05-06-2003)
  
  
• Assistant Professor Rebecca Gomez has received a five-year National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award. (05-06-2003)    --- Read more...
  
  
• Professor and Cognitive Science director, Merrill Garrett, was elected to fellow status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of only seven UA faculty elected as a fellow this year. . (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor John Allen was recently elected to the Board of Directors, Society for Psychophysiological Research. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Carol Barnes was elected to the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Mental Health. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Dick Bootzin is the recent past-President of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science. (12-17-2002)    --- Link to relevant site...
  
  
• Professor Jeff Greenberg was recently elected as Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Michael Rorbaugh was Appointed by Governor Hull to the Arizona State Board of Psychologist Examiners. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Bruce Sales was recently was awarded the Doctor of Science Degree (honoris causa), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York . (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Lee Sechrest received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Division on Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics of the American Psychological Association. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Varda Shoham was elected to Membership on the Committee on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Psychological Association. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Professor Gary Wenk was Elected as chair of of an NIH study section. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Graduate student Logan Trujillo was selected for the 2002 UA Centennial Achievement award. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Undergraduate student Mike Malek-Ahmadi won first place for his poster in the undergraduate division of Social Sciences in the recent UA Student Showcase. (12-17-2002)
  
  
• Associate Professor Hal Arkowitz received the Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology award from the Arizona Psychological Association (AzPA) this year. Hal was previously (1998) a recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology award from AzPA. (12-17-2002)
  
  

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