Dr. Blair Wisco has been named a “Rising Star” in Clinical Science by the Association for Psychological Science. Wisco earned a PhD in clinical psychology at Yale University in 2011, after which she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for PTSD in Boston, MA. She joined the Department… Continue reading…
Graduate student Naomi Chatley (Advisor: Dr. Stuart Marcovitch) was selected to receive the Pete Pufall Emerging Scholar’s Travel Award of the Jean Piaget Society in May, 2014. Awards are given to promising scholars to support the dissemination of their research at the society’s annual meeting. The theme of this year’s… Continue reading…
Two Psychology Department faculty have won the two highest research awards at UNCG. Dr. Michael Kane was named this year’s recipient of the UNCG Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award. His research program centers on attention and working memory, with particular emphasis on individual differences using a variety of methodologies (experimental,… Continue reading…
The Bernard-Glickman professorship is awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences to Assistant Professors in recognition of “outstanding accomplishments as a member of our faculty and the demonstration of great promise for the future.” Dr. Gabriela Stein was nominated for her outstanding research in Latino mental health, and for… Continue reading…
The Joseph Bryan Jr. Fellowship for 2014-15 has been awarded to Charlotte Gates, a graduate student in clinical psychology (Advisor: Dr. Thomas Kwapil). This award acknowledges academic achievement and commitment to professional development, and is given to a distinguished graduate student in the PhD program. Congratulations, Charlotte!
Dr. Stuart Marcovitch has been named the incoming Department Head of Psychology and will assume this role on August 1, 2014. Dr. Julia Mendez Smith has been named the Associate Head.
Two graduate students in the clinical program, Catherine Majestic (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kari Eddington) and Ali Cupito (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gabriela Stein), have been awarded the Duffy Award for excellence in research and scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Georgina Gross (Advisor: Dr. Thomas Kwapil) of the clinical program and Roger… Continue reading…
Dr. Julia Mendez Smith is part of a team of researchers awarded a grant by the DHHS Administration on Children and Families to fund a National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families. This project grew out of a research group that was supported by the UNCG Child and Family… Continue reading…
Once again, 100% of our clinical students matched for predoctoral internship training. Nneka Morris will be completing her internship at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center. Diana Westerberg will be completing her internship at Harvard Medical Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Both of these students also recently passed the EPPP,… Continue reading…
David Frank (Advisor: Dr. Dayna Touron) has been named the 2014 recipient of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Master’s Thesis Award in the category of Social Sciences, Business, and Education. Congratulations!
