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Faculty
Nora Newcombe is president of the Eastern Psychological Association.
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.
Alumni
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, Behavior, and Cognition 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.
Graduate Students
Brianne Magouirk Bettcher, M. A., was awarded the APA Division 40 (Neuropsychology) Early Career Research Grant.
Ellen C. Jørstad-Stein, M.Sc., was granted the College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Travel Award in February 2008 from the College of Liberal Arts.
Faith Brozovich, B.A., received the graduate student travel and research award in 2008 from the College of Liberal Arts.
Alexandra Twyman, B.Sc., was granted the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2008 from NSERC.
Leanne Magee, M.A., was granted the CLA Graduate Fund for Excellence Research Award in January, 2008.
Jessica Keyser, M.A., was awarded the 2008 Psi Chi National Honor Society Graduate Research Grant and Temple Psychology's Bolton Award for her dissertation project.
Rinad Beidas, M.A., has won the 2008
Thomas E. Shipley Jr. Research Prize Fund.
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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