Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Nathan Huff, The Psychometric, Theoretical, and Experimental Contributions toward an Integrated nderstanding of Mental Health Stigma Over Time and Across Disciplines , Advisor: Linda Isbell
Andrea Mah, Public Engagement with Climate Change Adaptiom: Three Investigations of the Communication of Environmental Issues , Advisor: Brian Lickel
Awards and Honors
Student Awards:
Keith Rayner Memorial Graduate Student Research Award: Yun Zou and Diego Barcala-Delgado Read full article
Graduate Studies Committee faculty members have selected Hector Sosa and John Vargas as winners of the 2024 Royer Award.
Naicha Chamille Christophe and Vandrey Sisson win 21st Century Leader Awards. Read more
Several psychology undergraduates have received Center for Research on Families research awards, recognizing these students for their outstanding research on issues related to families. CRF recognizes the importance of supporting family researchers at all stages of their careers and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read more
Wendy Helmer Graduate Student Award: Minji Lee, Andrea Mah
Departmental Graduate DEI Service Awards: Tihitini Bekele, Aylin Fernandez, Eleni Kapoulea, Minji Lee
Averi Gaines was awarded a University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School Pre-dissertation Research Grant, as well as a North American Society for Psychotherapy Research Student Travel Award to the 55th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.
Truc Do, a first-year graduate student in the Developmental Science program working with Dr Adam Grabell, has been awarded a Health Tech for the People (HT4P) Graduate Fellowship on Ethics of Health Technology. Funded by the IALS/CPHM, the purpose of the HT4P graduate fellowship is to encourage graduate students to integrate considerations of ethics of technology and accountable, human-centered design, evaluation and translation of health monitoring technologies for the public interest into their program of research with mentorship support and community engagement.
Zachary Bivins, Psychological Services Center Fellowship: Stephan D. Weiss, PhD Graduate Student Traineeship in College Mental Health Psychology
Dominic Denning, Emerging Scholar - Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide through Technology Translation (CAPES).
CNS Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award: Naicha Christophe
Faculty Awards:
Maureen Perry-Jenkins was selected for the PBS DEI Faculty/Staff Ally to Graduate Students Award.
Heather Richardson has been invited to the NIH National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
CNS Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award: Maria Galano
CNS Excellence in Undergraduate Student Mentoring Award: Evelyn Mercado
CNS Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award: Linda Tropp
Holly Laws receives Professional Improvement Fellowship, Fall 2024.
Lori Astheimer receives Office of Faculty Development Mutual Mentoring Team Grant 2024-2025"A Bottom-Up Network for Developing Transparent Policies and Mechanisms for Equitable Access to STEM Undergraduate Research Experiences.”
Tammy Rahhal receives Chancellor’s Leadership Fellowship 24-25.
David Moorman is Co-Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on the Frontal Cortex.
Michael Constantino was appointed to a three-year term to the American Psychological Association's Advisory Steering Committee for Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Staff Updates
Becky Schneider has been promoted to Senior Academic Advisor.
Kelly Tierney was hired as Human Subjects and Compliance Administrator.
Carolyn Cave and Karen Genereux will retire.
Alumni Updates
Brooke Burrows '24PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Appalachian State University, North Carolina
Kuan-Jung Huang '24PhD
Postdoc with Yi Ting Huang (University of Maryland) and Roger Levy (MIT) on an NSF funded project, "Syntactic processing across socioeconomic status: Linking input to comprehension."
Andrea Mah '24PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon State University, Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hub
Christina Rowley '24PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship Fall 2025, San Diego State University
Alice Coyne '21PhD was given the 2024 Early Career Award, by the American Psychological Foundation (APF) and American Psychological Association (APA) Division 29 (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy).
Clinical Psychology Internship Placements
Grace Cho
Ohio State University - Behavioral Health, Columbus, OH
Christina Hogan
UC Davis Health - Clinical Child and Adolescent, Sacramento, CA
Eleni Kapoulea
VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Irina Orlovsky
Dartmouth Health/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Elinor Waite
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
Sherry Elizabeth Woods
Brattleboro Retreat, Brattleboro, VT