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Undergraduate Students
Numerous psychology undergraduates received 2011 CLA awards. For the complete list, please click here.
Kimberly Mughal, under the mentorship of Dr. Ingrid Olson, was awarded a Student Grant from the Association of Psychological Sciences.
Safiya Castel was recently inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the 2010 John Means Study Abroad Scholarship. This scholarship provides $2500 to fund Safiya's semester abroad in Seville, Spain in Fall 2010.
Stacey M. Austin, under the mentorship of Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, was awarded the 2010 Marks and Emma Kohn Memorial Award. Established by Walter and Anita Kohn in memory of Mr. Kohn's parents, this award is given to an outstanding member of the graduating class in recognition of excellence in the social sciences.
Raymond D. Crookes, under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Shipley, was awarded the 2010 Psychology Department Service Recognition Award. This prize is awarded by Psychology Department faculty to the member of the graduating class who best combines academic excellence with service to the Psychology Department.
Glory Ifeoma Epelle, under the mentorship of Dr. Donald Hantula, was awarded the 2010 Psychology Prize by the Temple University Chapter of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, for attaining the highest scholastic average in psychology with general excellence in other studies.
Ahrin Gibbons, under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald Taylor and Mia Budescu, was awarded the 2010 Psychology and Social Justice Award. This award recognizes a graduating senior who has demonstrated effectiveness in promoting community welfare through the application of principles of psychology in service to the community, conflict resolution, and overall resolution, and dedication to social justice issues.
Jaime Anne Earnest has been accepted into a multidisciplinary PhD program at the University of Glasgow and has also been designated the 2010-2014 Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Scholar there.
At the annual meeting in April 2010 of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Kristy Cordero, a Psychology and Neuroscience undergraduate dual major, won the undergraduate neuroscience research award.
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Graduate Students
Jonathan Stange, won a $1500 travel award to attend the International Conference of Psychology in Cape Town, South Africa to present his original research.
Cara Settipani, a clinical area student, won the Child and Adolescent Anxiety SIG travel award to attend the 2011 Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Convention in the amount of $200.00.
Elaine Boland, a clinical area student, received honorable mention
for the Smadar Levin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology.
Kelly O'Neil, a clinical area student, was awarded a 2011 American Psychological Foundation Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Graduate Student Fellowship in the amount of $25,000.
Kuba Glazek, a BCS area student, and Colette Seter, a clinical area student, both received travel awards for the 2011 APA convention in Washington, DC.
Emily Bisen-Hersh, a BCS area student, won a Graduate Student Travel award for $750 from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics held in Washington, DC, and the NIDA Director's Travel Award to the 2011 CPDD Conference in Hollywood, Florida.
Abby Seelbach and Ashley Hampton, clinical area students, have been selected to participate in the Early Career Poster Session at the 2011 APA Convention in Washington, DC. This event is sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), APA Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Drug Abuse), and APA Division 50 (Addictions).
Kim Goldstein, a clinical area student, won the 2011 Shipley Award.
Angelo Boccia, a clinical area student, won Temple's First Summer Research Incentive Award to fund his research during the summer of 2011.
Erin Cooper, M.A., a clinical area student, was featured in the April 2011 APA Monitor. Check out her article here.
Courtney Benjamin, M.A., received a Ruth Kirschtein predoctoral training grant (F-31) supporting her dissertation research for 2010-2011.
In February 2011, numerous clinical area graduate students who are currently completing their internships have accepted postdoctoral fellowships. Richard Liu has accepted a position at Brown University Medical School. Kristin Pontoski and Shari Jager-Hyman have both accepted postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ashley Hampton, a clinical area student, has been selected to be the Student Representative to the Executive Board of Division 50 (Addictions) of the American Psychological Association.
Amanda Morrison, a clinical area student working with Dr. Heimberg, was notified that her NIH NRSA (F31) grant is being funded.
Rachel Bender was awarded the 2011 Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Dissertation Award.
Elizabeth Gordon has been awarded a Career Development Travel Award from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America to fund her travel to their 2011 conference.
Abby Jenkins will be awarded the Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Research Award at the 2010 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies convention.
Benjamin Shapero, Denise LaBelle, and Richard Liu were awarded the 2010 Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant to provide funding to defray the costs of conducting a research project on cognitive flexibility and life experiences.
Bess Puvathingal received a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Arabic overseas during the summer of 2010. The program, sponsored by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and the US Department of State, awarded 575 scholarships out of a pool of 5,300 applicants.
Dustin Albert was awarded the 2010 Weinstein Graduate Student Award by the Civic Foundation. This award provides $3500 to fund a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of age differences in decision making designed to examine the neural substrates of peer influences on reward processing in adolescence.
Kuba J. Glazek has been awarded a Graduate School Senior Doctoral Fellowship from CHAT for Spring 2011. Mr. Glazek’s application was selected from a group of 28 proposals, representing 10 doctoral programs in three schools and colleges at Temple.
Richard Liu, a student of Lauren Alloy, won a competitive Temple U. Dissertation Completion Grant for $8,000.
Ashley Hampton, Brad Conners’ student, was awarded a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Travel Award to participate in the Early Career Poster Session that NIDA is co-sponsoring with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) Divisions 28 (Psychopharmacology and Drug Abuse) and 50 (Addictions) during this year’s APA Annual Convention, August 12-15, 2010, in San Diego, CA.
Justin Kenney received the 2010 Shipley Prize Award for his proposal entitled "Towards an Understanding of how Nicotine Alters Long-Term Memory Consolidation: Transcriptional Regulation of the JNK1 Gene."
Diane Chen, M.A., received the 2010 runner-up Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Fellowship award from APF.
Bess J. Puvathingal, M.A., BCBA, was awarded the prestigious Truman Fellowship for 2010, an award for professionals who show early promise to become our country's future progressive leadership.
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 for 2009-2010.
Arthur Sandt, M.A., received the 2009 Shipley Research Prize from the Temple University Psychology Department.
Derek Wilkinson, M.A., received a predoctoral fellowship award for minority students from NIH in 2009.
Hanna Carpenter, M.A., received the Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Fellowship from APF for 2009-2010.
Faith Brozovich, M.A., received the Early Researcher Award in Applied Science from APA in 2009.
Rinad Beidas, M.A., has won the 2009 ASPP award from APA.
Undergraduate Alumni
Patrice Karcher, a former undergraduate, met the NaNoWriMo novel writing challenge of writing 50,000 words on a novel in the month of November 2009. This was for her novel entitled Thirty Mysterious Bottles, which is set in the Roman empire. Patrice also completed a novel in November of 2007 entitled Listen to Your Heart. Both novels hold a message of self-empowerment, a psychological construct which Patrice is very passionate about.
Graduate Alumni
Dr. Ed Gracely received the 2011 Distinguished Service Award by the Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences Section of the ASA.
Dr. Helen Coons has been inducted into the Temple University League for
Entrepreneurial Women Hall of Fame
Dr. Kelly Fisher, a recent graduate of Temple and current post-doctoral fellow under Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, was recently awarded a 2011 Society for Research in Child Development Congressional Fellowship.
Dr. Helen Coons received a Presidential Citation from APA in February 2011. For more information about Dr. Coons, please click here.
An article entitled "Durable and generalized effects of spatial experience on mental rotation: Gender differences in growth patterns," written by alumni Dr. Melissa Terlecki and Dr. Michelle Little, along with faculty member Dr. Nora Newcombe, has been selected to appear in the 25th Anniversary Virtual Issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Dr. Tilbe Goksun, a recent graduate of the Doctoral Program in Developmental Psychology, is featured in APA's gradPSYCH magazine.
Dr. Samuel Fung was recently voted to serve another term (2010-2014) as Chair of the Psychology Department at Austin Peay State University.
In July 2009, Dr. Steven Stern was promoted to Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
Dr. Trevor A. Hart, a graduate of our Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology, was promoted to Associate Professor and tenured in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University.
Dr. Brandon Gibb and Dr. Meredith Coles, graduates of the clinical program, were recently promoted to Associate Professors of Psychology (with tenure) at Binghamton University (SUNY).
Dr. Masami Takahashi, a developmental area alum, is now an Associate Professor of Psychology at Northeastern Illinois University.
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 in 2007 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.
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Faculty
Dr. Diana Woodruff-Pak has received an award from the Women in Leadership (WIL) to
attend the 2011 National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN) Conference
Dr. Larry Steinberg was featured in an article in the February 3rd, 2011 edition of The New York Times.
Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek was featured in an article in the February 20th, 2011 edition of The Chronicle. Also, Dr. Hirsh-Pasek was recently selected by the Inquirer in their Education section as an Educator to watch.
An article entitled "Durable and generalized effects of spatial experience on mental rotation: Gender differences in growth patterns," written by Dr. Nora Newcombe along with two graduate alumni, Dr. Melissa Terlecki and Dr. Michelle Little, has been selected to appear in the 25th Anniversary Virtual Issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (along with her longtime colleague and collaborator Roberta Gollinkoff) has been awarded The 2011 Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.
The award is for “...an individual whose work has...contributed not only to the science of developmental psychology, and who has also worked to the benefit of the application of developmental psychology to society. The individual's contributions may have been made through advocacy, direct service, influencing public policy or education, or through any other routes that enable scientific developmental psychology to better the condition of children and families.”
Dr. Thomas Gould received the 2010 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Sponsored by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, this award is given to professors who demonstrate command of their subject in and out of the classroom and an ability to relate it to other subjects.
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 in 2009.
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 in fall 2009. 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 (July 14, 2008) about an exciting new initiative led by Nora Newcombe, Ph.D.
Nora Newcombe is the 2008-2009 president of the Eastern Psychological Association.
Shipley Award Recipients
Arthur Sandt - 2009