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Dear Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff,
We are happy to announce, John Campbell was elected by the faculty and has agreed to serve as Director of Graduate Studies for the 2009-2010 academic year. We are grateful John is willing to serve the Department again in this position.
-Gordon
Dear Psychology Colleagues,
Clelia Anna Mannino, a graduate student in our social psychology program, is one of 20 students nationally to receive a Fulbright Full Grant to Italy. Her dissertation will investigate how Italy’s changing cultural climate is shaping and redefining conceptions of community, and how this complex process links to identity and nationalism. Mannino received a bachelor's in psychology and Italian from Mount Holyoke College in 2004. We all congratulate Ms. Mannino for winning this prestigious fellowship.
-Gordon
Dear Psychology colleagues,
It's a pleasure for me to tell you that Stephan Dilchert, one of our recent Ph.D's, has been awarded the Graduate School's Best Dissertation Award 2009 in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Here are a few details:
Advisor: Deniz Ones
Thesis title: Measurement and Prediction of Creativity at Work
Date of defense: July 31, 2008
Stephan is now an Assistant Professor of Management, Baruch College
(City University of New York)
Stephan recently received another award; a paper that he wrote in 2007 while a student at the Department of Psychology has just won
the "James C. Johnson Student Paper Award" of the International Personnel Assessment Council. The paper is titled “Assessment Center Dimensions:
Individual Differences Correlates and Meta-Analytic Incremental Validity.” This is a very competitive award in I/O Psychology.
We all take pride in Stephan's accomplishments, as we do with all our Ph.D.'s.
-Gordon
The Department is pleased to announce the recognition of an outstanding undergraduate psychology major. Kyle Menary, sophomore University Honors Program student, has been named one of twenty 2009-10 CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarship recipients. To be considered for a Birkelo Scholarship, students must be majoring in fields relating to history, modern languages, classics, or the social and behavioral sciences and must be nominated by their major department. From the slate of nominees, a college-wide selection committee determines Birkelo Scholars, who will receive up to $4,000 to support their studies next year.
Kyle has distinguished himself early on in his academic career. Following participation in Monica Luciana's lab throughout his freshman year, Kyle secured a Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) grant last summer for his project, "Correlational Study of IQ and Cortical Thickness". He has continued data collection for this project since last spring and recently presented a poster at CSPR Research Day. Kyle is now working on a manuscript for a scholarly article as he completes his sophomore year. In Monica's letter of support for Kyle she states, "[Kyle] is superstar material, and we will be proud to claim him as one of our own!"
Holly M. Hatch-Surisook
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Coordinator of Advising
Department of Psychology
Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating the winners of the CSPR area's Research Day Poster Fair. Posters were judged in two categories: Graduate and Undergraduate/Post-Baccalaureate.
The Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award winner is Justin Jobelius, who is mentored by Chris Patrick. The title of his poster was Reduced P300 amplitude in criminal psychopathy is related to factor 2 of the PCL-R: Evidence from a simulated gambling task.
The Best Graduate Student Poster Award winner is Daniel Goldman, who is mentored by Bruce Cuthbert. Daniel presented two posters: RSVP, Please: Randomized Valence in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation of Emotional Pictures and
Quick Pics: Blocked vs. Randomized Valence in Sustained Emotional Picture Presentation.
We wish Justin and Daniel the best of luck with their future endeavors. Thanks to those of you who participated in this and other aspects of Research Day. We hope to see you again next year!
Regards,
Monica Luciana
Director, T32 Training Program on
Neurobehavioral Aspects of Personality and Psychopathology