Fall 2007

Departmental Announcements

Faculty Announcements

Alumni Announcements

Graduate Student Announcements

Undergraduate Announcements


DEPARTMENTAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please see Meetings for scheduled departmental events, meetings, and colloquia.

For interested undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral students and faculty, please click here for more information on awards available within the discipline of psychology.

FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENTS

RECENT FACULTY AWARDS & EVENTS (updated September 12th, 2007)

Nora Newcombe has been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in Psychology. The Society was founded by Edward Bradfort Titchener in 1904, and it elects only a handful of Fellows each year.

Phil Hineline is the 2007 recipient of the Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award given by Division 25 of APA. Please click here to see a photo of Dr. Hineline receiving his award from Dr. Dougher.

Nora Newcombe is one of three winners of the 2006 Women in Cognitive Science Mentorship Award given by the Psychonomic Society. The WiCS Mentorship Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated sustained, effective mentorship of female students and who have also served as a research advisor or supervisor to one or more female students during the academic year immediately preceding the nomination.

Rick Heimberg received the first ever "Outstanding Mentor Award" given by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies at the meeting this past November in Chicago.

Phil Kendall has been awarded the 2007 Distinguished Career Research Award, from the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association. A presentation was made at the APA Convention, San Francisco, August 2007.

Phil Kendall has been awarded the Arthur B. Richter Visiting Professorship in Child Psychiatry, at the Indiana University School of Medicine. This honor was given to Dr. Kendall in February- March of 2007.

Phil Kendall has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the APA Division 12 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. A presentation will be made honoring awardees during Division 12's program at the 2006 APA Convention in New Orleans.

Phil Kendall was ranked 5th in a 2006 ranking of the APA-approved clinical psychology faculty in 157 programs throughout the United States, based on publications and citations to publications.

Phil Kendall was listed in "HighlyCited," the Institute for Scientific Information's list of the quantitatively- identified most higly-cited mental health researchers.

TEACHING AWARDS:

2004 Thomas Gould

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ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. Barbara Wanchisen was named Director of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of the National Research Council's Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE).

Dr. Linda Smolak, a professor at Kenyon College in Ohio, received the 2007 Price Family Foundation Award for Research Excellence at the Annual Conference of the National Eating Disorders Association in San Diego, CA on October 6, 2007.

Dr. George Hollich recently won The Boyd McCandless Award which recognizes a young scientist who has made a distinguished theoretical contribution to developmental psychology, conducted programmatic research of distinction, or has made a distinguished contribution to the dissemination of developmental science. Dr. Hollich also won The International Society for Infant Studies Young Leadership Award which recognizes a young scholar who made a distinguished contribution to infant studies.

Michael Southam-Gerow, a graduate of our Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology, was promoted to Associate Professor and tenured in the Dept of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) early career award.

Ellen Flannery-Schroeder, Ph.D, ABPP is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island.

Elizabeth Giosch, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate professor of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic medicine.

Brian Chu, PhD, is an Assistant professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.

Harold L. Arnold, Jr. has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Issues, the publication of Division 9 of the American Psychological Association.

Danielle H. Dallaire is Assistant Professor at The College of William & Mary, in the Psychology Department.

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GRADUATE STUDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Kudos and Awards

Recent Awards (December, 2006)

Brian Iacoviello has won the 2006 Elsie Ramos Student Researcher Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT) for the research paper below:

Iacoviello, B.M., Alloy, L.B., Abramson, L.Y., Whitehouse, W.G., & Hogan, M.E.(2006). The course of depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression:  A prospective study.  Journal of Affective Disorders, 93, 61-69.

Brian was presented his award at the ABCT meeting in Chicago, Nov. 15-19,2006.

* Congratulations to the following graduate students who have just received Distinguished Teaching Awards from the College of Liberal Arts.

Alison Clabaugh
Kelly Sowers
Rebecca Kang McGill

The Graduate Program welcomes the 2007 - 2008 first year students

 

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UNDERGRADUATE ANNOUNCEMENTS

2006 - 2007 Awards

Andrea Pearlman Price Pre-Medical Award
Alexis Pelletier

Clifford M. Kliger Memorial Award
Patrick Fisher

Marks & Emma Kohn Memorial Award
Bisi Dean

James D. Page Award
Kim Nguyen

Psychology Department Service Recognition Award
Heather Babyar

Psychology Prize
Laura Brennan

The following psychology undergraduates were elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Ajantha Nanayakkara, Alexys Joan Sweeney Weber, Alison Scott, Amy Brubaker
Ashlee Lewis, Bisi Oliana Dean, Catherine Dever, Chi Chan, Colleen Krieger, Dana Bevilacqua, Elizabeth Garrison, George Heckert, Jane Yi, Jay Joshi, Jenya Rozenfeld, Juron Foreman, Kristy Fisher, Laura Sywulak, Linda Thea, Lindsay Raden, Luci Motoca, Naoko Imada, Patrick Fisher, Rachel Fogletto, Rachel Kaneff, Richard Filson, Sara E. Nyce, Shizhong Huang, and Wayne Nguyen.

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Revised: April 25, 2007