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Grad. Student Sarah Jessup wins APF/COGDOP Scholarship – Congratulations !
Sep. 9, 2021—Sarah Jessup, Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Bunmi Olatunji, has won a 2021 APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarship for her work on ‘Benefits of the “Worst-Case Scenario”: A Multi-Level, Clinical Examination of Confronting the Feared Outcome During Exposure Therapy.’ The American Psychological Foundation (APF) provides financial support for innovative research and programs for graduate...
Congratulations to Toni and Meredyth!
Jun. 30, 2021—Toni Kaczkurkin and Meredyth Wegener have both been selected as junior faculty teaching fellows. Fellows are selected based on identification of clear and achievable goals for program participation and for use of research funds; potential impact at Vanderbilt; support from their chair; and readiness to learn in the program. Click on the link for further details...
Congratulations Jennifer!
Dec. 16, 2019—Jennifer Trueblood has been selected to receive the 2020 Young Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, one of the oldest, most prestigious professional organizations in the field of scientific psychology. Besides a cash priz...
Congratulations David & Gordon!
Dec. 16, 2019—Professors David Zald and Gordon Logan have been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This honor is in recognition of individuals whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its application...
Congratulations Psychology Day award winners!
Apr. 24, 2019—The Jum C. Nunnally Honors Research Award - Leyao Yu (Undergraduate Honors student, Reyna Gordon lab) The Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award - Rebecca Cox (PhD student, Bunmi Olatiunji lab) The Jum C. Nunnally Dissertation Award - Mi...
CONGRATULATIONS FRANK!
Feb. 28, 2019—The Department of Psychology would like to congratulate Frank Tong on being named to an endowed chair (Centennial Professor of Psychology). Vanderbilt University’s eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship a...
Psychological Sciences Alumnae Named Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship!
Dec. 12, 2018—Sarena Martinez, MS’16, Psychological Sciences alum and honors student, was named a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. Martinez, who studied psychology in the College of Arts ...
In Honor of the Late Vivien Casagrande!
Nov. 8, 2018—At a ceremony yesterday(11/6/18) at meetings of the Society for Neuroscience our friend and colleague Vivien Casagrande was announced as the 2018 winner of the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor Award. Named in honor of the late Paticia Gol...
Congratulations Daryl, Jurnell and René !
Aug. 24, 2018— Daryl Fougnie, Jurnell Cockhren and René Marois win the 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award for the article entitled "A common source of attention for auditory and visual tracking" published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics in the past ...
Congratulations Noah Robinson!
Mar. 19, 2018—Clinical psychology graduate student Noah Robinson's work is featured in the Tennessean! https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/03/18/why-vanderbilt-researcher-using-virtual-reality-fight-opioids/327886002/ Noah has also been selected as a recipien...