Kudos
Faculty
Dr. Laurence Steinberg
was named as the first recipient of the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, a $1 million international award, for his contributions to the improvement of the living conditions of young people.
Dr. Diana Woodruff Pak (Professor of Psychology, Neurology, and Radiology/Director of Neuroscience Program) will serve as Co-Program Director for a recently awarded Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) grant. Jacqueline Tanaka (Biology) will serve as Program Director. Sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the MARC program intends to expand the pipeline of underrepresented minority students (URM) in the biomedical and behavioral sciences (BMBS) entering PhD or MD/PhD programs. After being ranked first in undergraduate diversity in 2007, it is no surprise that Temple’s application was favorably reviewed and awarded.
Dr. Philip Kendall won the 2009 award for 'Outstanding Contributions by an Individual for Education/Training Activities' from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
The Wall Street Journal (9/2/08) published an article "To be young and anxiety free" honoring Philip Kendall, Ph.D., as a "pioneer in the use of cognitive behavioral therapy in kids."
Larry Steinberg, Ph.D., was awarded the Presidential Citation Award from the American Psychological Association (Summer, 2008). Larry received this citation in recognition of his “contributions to multiple substantive areas within the field of adolescent development and his extraordinary impact in the areas of socioemotional development, juvenile justice, child labor, family relationships, and developmental psychopathology."
Lauren Alloy, Ph.D., was awarded the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society (Summer, 2008) for a lifetime of achievements in applied psychological research.
Please click here to read an article in the Temple Times about an exciting new initiative led by Nora Newcombe, Ph.D.
Nora Newcombe is president of the Eastern Psychological Association.
Alumni
Dr. Kate Monahan, a developmental area alum, received the APA Division 7 Dissertation Research Award.
Dr. Helen Coons, a former clinical psychology graduate student was profiled by APA. Click here to read the article.
Dr. Jack Maser, a former experimental psychology graduate student., was awarded the 2008 APA'S Board of Scientific Affairs' Meritorious Research Service Commendation.
Dr. Mike Lewis, a former Brain and Cognitive Sciences area graduate student, has accepted a position at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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.
Tilbe Goksun, M.A., received the Jean Berko Gleason Best Student Paper Award at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2009.
Kelly O'Neil, M.A., received the 2009 ABCT Child Anxiety Special Interest Group Student Travel Award.
Rinad Beidas, M.A., received the 2009 APA Division 54 Student Poster Award from the diversity committee for her research on HIV prevention in ethnically diverse adolescents.
Dawn Eichen, M.A., & Rinad Beidas, M.A., psychology area graduate students, received travel awards from APA to attend the 2009 APA Convention and present their research.
Bess J. Puvathingal, M.A., social area graduate student, has been selected for the ODNI National Security Analysis & Intelligence Summer Seminar (NSAISS) to be held in Washington DC, July 13-24, 2009.
Rinad Beidas, M.A., received a Ruth Kirschtein predoctoral training grant (F-31) supporting her dissertation research.
Arthur Sandt, M.A., recieved the 2009 Shipley Research Prize from the Temple University Psychology Department.
Derek Wilkinson, M.A., recieved a predoctoral fellowship award for minority students from NIH.
Hanna Carpenter, M.A., received the Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Fellowship from APF.
Faith Brozovich, M.A., recieved the Early Researcher Award in Applied Science from APA.
Rinad Beidas, M.A., has won the 2009 ASPP award from APA.
Undergraduate Students
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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