http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Announcements - Department of Psychology http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Kara Federmeier has won the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Congratulations, Kara! Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02:45 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php William Orr Dingwall established a foundation that funds doctoral research on language and the brain. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:16 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php The fellowship will fund 11 months of fieldwork in India for Urmi's dissertation. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:29 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php *AMPHETAMINE USE IN ADOLESCENCE MAY IMPAIR ADULT WORKING MEMORY* Rats exposed to high doses of amphetamines at an age that corresponds to the later years of human adolescence display significant memory deficits as adults – long after the exposure ends, researchers report. more <http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/1021amphetamine.html> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:04:58 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Bonnie Nozari won the award for the best graduate student presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia (Boston, 2009). Audrey Kittredge was co-author on Bonnie's paper. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:47:21 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:28:07 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php More than 40 of our colleagues are included in the Spring 2009 List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students. Congratulations!! Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:01:16 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Carla Hunter recently received APA Division 17's "2009 SERD Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity Award". SERD is the Section on Ethnic and Racial Diversity. Congratulations, Carla! Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:30:57 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Professor Dolores Albarracin has been named a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Congratulations!! Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:21:34 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:58:34 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:40:57 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:39:37 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php These two awards are given to female students whose work promises to make significant contributions to the improvement of women's lives and gender equity in the developing world. Mon, 11 May 2009 17:49:33 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Congratulations to Shabnam on a perfect trifecta! Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:57:17 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Harry Triandis has won the Eminent Scholar Award in International Management from the Academy of Management. He will give a talk and be presented the award at the Academy of Management conference on Tuesday 11 August in Chicago. Congratulations, Harry! Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:59:45 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Steve Broomell, a graduate student in the quantitative division, has won a Dissertation Research Award from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Congratulations, Steve! Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:15:58 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Nicole Allen has been designated as a 2009-2010 Helen Corley Petit Scholar on the basis of her extraordinary record as an assistant professor. Helen Corley Petit, an alumna of the College of LAS who passed away 6 years ago, provided an endowment for the development of the scholarship and teaching of young faculty members in the College. Congratulations, Nicole! Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:37:49 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Larry Hubert has been selected by the Awards Committee of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics) to receive the 2009 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring. This award is presented each year to honor an individual who has demonstrated excellence in teaching/mentoring in the Division-5-related areas. Larry has been invited to receive his award and to present a 45 minute address at the 2009 APA Convention which will take place in Toronto, August 6-9. Congratulations, Larry! Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:44:35 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Gary Wszalek is the recipient of the 2008 Department of Psychology Academic Professional Award. Congratulations, Gary! Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:15:21 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Tom Hendricks is the recipient of the 2008 Department of Psychology Staff Award. Congratulations, Tom! Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:13:37 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Kara Federmeier was elected to the board of directors of the society. Gabriele Gratton is the new President-elect of the society. The following students won poster awards: Eddie Wlotko and Charlene Lee (from Kara’s lab); Kyle Mathewson (from our lab); Anna Engels (from Greg Miller’s lab) as well as one of our former undergraduates (Erika Henry, who is now a graduate student at UMC). Eddie Wlotko was also awarded a $5000 research award for new MEG research he is planning to do in collaboration with Eric Halgren at UCSD. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:30:34 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php At the annual FRAXA Investigators Meeting in Durham, New Hampshire, Bill Greenough was honored with the FRAXA 2008 Dedication Award, for his "longstanding, unwavering commitment to Fragile X translational research and to growing the Fragile X research community". Bill has shared this honor with his entire lab, recognizing all of their joint contributions to their research program. Congratulations to Bill, and to everyone in the Greenough lab!! Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:43:49 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Brent Roberts has been named a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar by the college of LAS in recognition of his outstanding achievements in research. Congratulations, Brent! Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:48 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Jill Warker won the award for best graduate student poster at the 5th International Workshop on Language Production (2008, Annapolis, MD). Jill's poster is #37 of poster session 2. Congratulations, Jill! Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:28:42 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Professor Emeritus Roderick P. McDonald has been awarded the Messick Award for "Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Measurement." He will present an address at the Division 5 APA Meeting in Boston. Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:02:24 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Brenda Hernandez has won a Dissertation Support Award from APA. Congratulations, Brenda! Wed, 14 May 2008 09:03:53 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Daniel Yang, one of our graduate students in SPO, won a Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence Award for 2008. The award is conferred by the Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence Steering Committee of UIUC with the goal to promote interdisciplinary research in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Daniel's project will explore ways to use connectionist network models to understand self-stereotyping. Congratulations, Daniel! Wed, 14 May 2008 09:02:30 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Melissa Milanak was one of two recipients of the Student Research Award given by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The funds that accompany the award are being used to fund some research Melissa is about to conduct in Northern Ireland. Congratulations, Melissa! Wed, 14 May 2008 09:01:50 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Justin Rhodes has won the Young Scientist Award from the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. Congratulations, Justin! Mon, 12 May 2008 14:36:39 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Caterina Gratton has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship. Caterina is one of our star undergraduates who recently completed an Honors Thesis with Kara Federmeier. She is also the daughter of Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton. Caterina will go to graduate school in Neuroscience at UC Berkeley in the Fall. Congratulations! Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:17:05 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Eddie Wlotko of the B&C division has been awarded a pre-doctoral NRSA fellowship to complete his dissertation work in collaboration with Kara Federmeier, Monica Fabiani, and Gabriele Gratton. Congratulations! Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:16:17 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Alejandro Lleras, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois and an affiliate of the Beckman Institute, is a recipient of an Early Faculty Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations, Alejandro! Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:14:43 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Michelle Cruz-Santiago of the Clinical/Community division has been awarded a 3-year Ford Foundation Fellowship. This fellowship is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies. Michelle was selected based on her scholarly excellence and for the promise that she shows for future achievement as a scholar, researcher, and teacher in an institution of higher education. Michelle's adviser is Jorge Ramirez Garcia. Congratulations, Michelle! Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:53:08 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Melody Chao has been selected for the RiSE-UP Research Award by the Association for Psychological Science. The purpose of this award is to cultivate scholarly research in psychological fields related to socially and economically under-represented populations. Melody will present her research in a symposium at the Annual Convention in Chicago, IL, May 2008. Melody is a graduate student in the SPO division, and she is advised by Ying Yi Hong. Congratulations, Melody! Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:13:27 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Hsiu-Ting Yu, a recent graduate from the quantitative division, receives the 2008 AERA Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award and the APA Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics) 2008 Distinguished Dissertation Award. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:12:46 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Neal Roese has been named an Associate at the UIUC Center for Advanced Study next academic year. This appointment grants one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project. Neal was also named as an APS Fellow. Congratulations, Neal Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:39:43 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Hua-Hua Chang (and Zhilian Ying, from Columbia) are the joint winners of the 2008 NCME Award for an Outstanding Example of Application of Educational Measurement Technology to a Specific Problem. The problem tackled was to identify a design flaw in the computerized testing system which failed to generate reliable scores for thousands of GRE and GMAT test takers from 2000 to 2003. They proposed a theory and presented both analytical and empirical evidence to support their hypothesis. The award ceremony will be held at the 2008 AERA/NCME Annual Meetings, March 23-27, 2008, New York City. Please join me in congratulating Hua! Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:10:16 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Brent Roberts awarded the 2008 Diener Mid-Career Award for Personality Psychology from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Congratulations, Brent! Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:23:35 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Larry Broda is the recipient of this year's Department of Psychology Acacemic Professional Award for his efficient handling of our email system and website. Congratulations, Larry! Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:59:06 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Janice Morris is the recipient of the 2007 Department of Psychology Staff award. Congratulations, Janice! Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:07:02 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Greg Miller has been named a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar by the college of LAS. Congratulations, Greg! Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:47:21 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Art Kramer has been named a Swanlund Chair. This is the highest endowed position bestowed by the University. For more details, see http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0926swanlundchairs.html. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:27:28 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Fritz Drasgow has won the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. This award is given to the individual who has made the most distinguished empirical and/or theoretical scientific contributions to the field of I-O psychology. Congratulations, Fritz! Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:39:24 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Sarah Mangelsdorf, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology, became the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in an investiture ceremony on Sept. 19, 2007. Harry E. Preble received three degrees from the U of I and bequeathed $10 million to the University. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:20:53 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Bob Wyer is the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Congratulations, Bob! Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:21:47 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Ed Diener has just won the coveted Jack Block award for contributions to personality psychology given out by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Division 8. Congratulations, Ed! Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:22:22 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Larry Hubert has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Larry! Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:42:30 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Renee Baillargeon, the UI Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She will be inducted on October 6th. Fri, 4 May 2007 12:56:57 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Emeritus faculty member Chuck Hulin (view photo here: http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/people/photos/Hulin_561.jpg) has been awarded the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Contributions to Teaching Award. He will be honored at the annual meeting in New York on April 27. Congratulations, Chuck! Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:43:21 -0600 http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/events/announcements.php Florrie Ng has received the 2007 APA Division 7 Outstanding Dissertation Award (Division 7 is the Developmental Psychology Division) for her dissertation entitled "Parents' Responses to Childrens' Success and Failure: Differences between Chinese and European American Parents." Florrie's dissertation was supervised by Professor Eva Pomerantz. Congratulations, Florrie! Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:09:28 -0600