Congratulations to our second year graduate student cohort on an amazing 2025 Graduate Research Colloquium! This year’s GRC featured fascinating research. But it also celebrated the hard work and progress from our talented and determined clinical and experimental area graduate students. We look forward to hearing more about your research… Continue reading…
They scurry around the department to classes, labs, and seminars. We see them present and read their reaction papers. Let’s take some time to learn about the people behind the PowerPoints. Graduate students are essential to the research enterprise and valued members of any department with a graduate program. The… Continue reading…
Come see our intrepid second year students present on their work completed in year one. All talks will take place in the EUC Auditorium. This year’s Graduate Research Colloquium (affectionally referred to as GRC [gerk]), will take place in three parts. Part 1 runs from 9:30-10:45am. Part 2 runs from… Continue reading…
The CoPE Lab, led by Dr. Blair Wisco, has been on a productivity tear! In a lab-wide effort, Dr. Wisco along with grad students Shae Nester, Cameron Pugach, Emily Heinlein, and Alejandra Lopez, published “Do Physiological Measures of Arousal Align with Self-Reported Physical Sensations? Using a Novel Ambulatory Method to… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Brandi McDonald, who successfully defended her master’s thesis, “The development of children’s understanding of God’s omniscience and rituals” on July 16, 2025. The members of her committee were Stuart Marcovitch (co-chair), Peter Delaney (co-chair), and Janet Boseovski.
UNC Greensboro Psychology doctoral student Shae Nester is the winner of the 2025 Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant. The award will provide $3,750 to fund their dissertation project entitled, “A laboratory and ambulatory investigation of trauma-related dissociation, interoceptive accuracy, and interoceptive attention.” The project is conducted under the direction of… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Liz T. Gilbert, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “The role of retrieval in intentional forgetting: Retrieve to rehearse and retrieve to forget” on May 8th, 2025. The members of her committee were Peter Delaney (chair), Michael Kane, Christopher Wahlheim, and Julie Mendez-Smith. Papers from her dissertation have been… Continue reading…
A growing body of research suggests that caffeine might offer some protection against depression, but the exact biological mechanisms behind this are still unclear. A new study by graduate students Elli Cole and Alessandra Grillo, along with UNCG Psychology professor Dr. Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn, takes a fresh approach to this question…. Continue reading…
Graduate school is a challenging journey filled with rigorous coursework and demanding research. But it doesn’t have to be all work and no play; many students form some of their most cherished friendships during this transformative time. To kick off the semester on a lighthearted note, the Association for Graduate… Continue reading…
