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View feature stories, award highlights, research highlights, community news, and staff announcements.
Features
Senior Awards
We honor our outstanding seniors for their academic excellence, contributions to research, and scholarship. As truly exceptional members of our community, we recognize their hard work and dedication to the field of psychology.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Every spring we're proud to showcase undergraduate research in a poster-fest attended by students and faculty alike. Check out some tweets and posters from our talented students, summing up their extraordinary projects!
Senior Profiles
Meet some of our awesome seniors and learn about how they grew personally and professionally here at UMass. Get some great advice for new and current students!
DDHS Hosts Neurodiversity and Disability Studies Summit
The Developmental Disabilities and Human Services Program hosted a summit for members of UMass and the community to translate new ideas and mindsets into allyship and advocacy action.
Community
Demetrius Napolitano of Fostering Meditation Leads Workshops with Student Groups
In May the Rudd Adoption Research Program teamed up with the Learning Lab, UMass Psi Chi and Professor Amanda Hamel’s seminar class (The Neuropsychology of Stress & Meditation) to host a visit with Demetrius Napolitano - wellness expert and 2022 Re-envisioning Foster Care in America (REFCA) Champion.
Read more about the visit with Demetrius
Human Subjects and Compliance Administrator
PBS welcomes our new staff member, Kelly Tierney! Kelly has taken our position of Human Subjects and Compliance Administrator. She will be working with students and faculty on human subject research and developing participant recruitment through outreach within the department and the larger local community. Welcome Kelly!