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Livas-Stein wins Junior Research Excellence Award
Dr. Gabriela (Gaby) Livas Stein is the recipient of the 2020-21 UNCG Junior Research Excellence Award. This award recognizes significant scholarly contributions among Assistant and Associate level professors. Livas-Stein is the Director of the Caminos Lab; her research centers on the examination of familial cultural values in Latinx families and their impact on the
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Wahlheim wins 2021 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Dr. Chris Wahlheim is recipient of the 2021 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in the pre-tenure category. This award recognizes his dedication to student learning via research training opportunities. Chris will be recognized later this semester at the Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony. More about his research program here: https://www.uncgmaclab.com/
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Keita Christophe: On choosing UNCG, advice to his “junior” self, and coping with Covid-19
Keita Christophe is a graduate student in the developmental psychology program under the direction of Dr. Gabriela-Livas Stein. He is in his final year of the program and we are thrilled to report that he recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University! We caught up with Keita to ask
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Brady and Baker’s research featured in Forbes
Research by social psychology graduate student Ashlyn Brady and Faculty Advisor Dr. Levi Baker has been featured in Forbes Magazine. Their study demonstrated that the benefits of gratitude extend to romantic relationships. Access the article here.
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DUCK Lab featured in Greensboro Science Center’s “Giving Tuesday”
The DUCK Lab was featured in a Facebook Live event hosted by the Greensboro Science Center (GSC) as part of “Giving Tuesday.” The event centered on a discussion about the ongoing, multi-year collaborative research relationship between the two organizations that focuses on learning how children and their families navigate, engage with, and learn from the
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Clinical faculty featured in UNCG Research Magazine
UNCG Research Magazine has featured the community-engaged and culturally responsive research and intervention work that is the focus of many of our clinical faculty. Article here: https://researchmagazine.uncg.edu/fall-2020/were-here/ Dr. Susan Keane, Director of Clinical Training notes that our clinical psychology program has always had a “philosophy of helping the underserved.” The pandemic crisis, observes Dr.
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Wiley featured on Dope Labs Podcast
Dr. Robert Wiley was the featured Expert speaker on the science podcast The Dope Labs. Wiley is a cognitive psychologist who directs the Cognitive and Neural Science of Learning (CNSL) Lab, which focuses on neural plasticity and recovery from aphasia, the role of motor-experience in acquiring written language, and the effects of expertise on visual
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Wisco wins APA Division 56 Award
Dr. Blair Wisco is the recipient of an Award for Outstanding Contributions to Trauma Psychology from Division 56 of the American Psychological Association! This award recognizes Psychologists in the early stages of their careers who have shown outstanding achievement or who have made outstanding contributions to the study of psychological trauma. Wisco is the Director
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Garlitch and Wahlheim receive Best of 2020 Article Award
The Psychonomic Society has selected graduate student Sydney Garlitch and co-author Dr. Chris Wahlheim as recipients of a 2020 Best Article Award. The paper is titled “The role of attentional fluctuation during study in recollecting episodic changes at test” and it was published in February, 2020, in the journal Memory & Cognition. Awards are determined by
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Strong Minds, Strong Communities study targets mental health disparities
“Strong Minds, Strong Communities” is a five-year, $4 million National Institutes of Health-funded study that targets disparities in mental health care access for underserved populations, and in particular, racial/ethnic and linguistic minority populations. Led by Clinical Faculty members Drs. Gaby Stein and Kari Eddington, the goal is to provide is to provide access to empirically
