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PhD Student Chu Chu Receives Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship

08/23/2023 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD student Chu Chu recently received the Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship from the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). The HumRRO Meredith P. Crawford...

IPAC board director, Michael Blair, presenting the James C. Johnson Student Paper Award to 2023 winner Lingyue Li.

PhD Student Lingyue Li Receives 2023 James C. Johnson Student Paper Award

08/23/2023 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD candidate Lingyue Li recently won the 2023 James C. Johnson Student Paper Competition. This competition, organized by the International Personnel Assessment...

Professor Caroline Tancredy Receives The Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring

04/21/2023 - Professor Caroline Tancredy has received the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, recognizing her work as Director of the Department of Psychology's Masters of Science in...

Graduate student Katie Kemp and Professor Thomas Kwapil receive grant from the American Psychological Foundation

02/06/2023 - Congratulations to Clinical-Community doctoral student Katie Kemp, advised by Professor of Psychology Thomas Kwapil, who has received a grant from the American Psychological Foundation to support her...

Call for Anti-Racism Grant Proposals

01/26/2023 - The Psychology Department Diversity and Inclusion Committee are pleased to announce our Anti-racism Grant Fund, designed to support members of the psychology department in seeking financial support...

Jas Jacobson Has Been Awarded Our First Underrepresented Research Fellowship

01/13/2023 - Jas Jacobson is our inaugural recipient of the “Advanced Research Opportunity Honors Fellowship.” This fellowship provides support over three semesters of undergraduate research conducted toward the...

Auburn Jimenez Receives the AERA-NSF Dissertation Grant

01/04/2023 - Congratulations to Auburn Jimenez on being one of five students to receive the Dissertation and Research Grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Auburn is currently pursuing...

Graduate student Chu Chu and Professor Bo Zhang receive grant from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

12/07/2022 - Congratulations to Industrial-Organizational doctoral student Chu Chu, advised by Assistant Professor of Psychology and Labor and Employment Relations Bo Zhang, who has received a grant from the...

Graduate Student Markera Jones Receives the 2022 Graduate Student Leadership Award

11/07/2022 - Markera Jones received this year’s Graduate Student Leadership Award from The Graduate College.

Staring at Yourself During Virtual Chats May Negatively Affect Your Mood

07/01/2022 - Written by Diana Yates Illinois News Bureau Photo Credit: Michelle Hassel A new study finds that the more a person stares at themself while talking with a partner in an online chat, the more their...

Megan Finnegan is named a 2022 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow

05/10/2022 - Congratulations to Megan Finnegan on being named to the 2022 class of Backman Institute Graduate Fellows! Megan is currently pursuing two Ph.D.s in psychology and neuroscience. Finnegan is...

Jiawen Wu standing on left side, Eva Pomerantz on right, in front of a black board with mathematical formulas written all over it.

Professor Eva Pomerantz and graduate students Jiawen Wu and Dajung (Diana) Oh show link between Parents Positivity towards math and children’s math achievement

05/04/2022 - New work from graduate student Jiawen Wu, Dajung (Diana) Oh, and Professor Eva Pomerantz demonstrate the connection between the way parents support their young children with math homework and their...

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Mahogany Monette wins National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

04/27/2022 - Graduate student Mahogany Monette has received a highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

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Members of psychology department serve as editors for a journal's special issue on race and racism

04/11/2022 - Professor Alejandro Lleras and graduate student Julia Spielmann are among the invited editors for a special issue on the impact of race on psychological process.

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Julia Spielmann sweeps the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Awards

02/23/2022 - Julia Spielmann has received awards for excellence in teaching from both the Department of Psychology and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.