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Association for Psychological Science 2015 Rising Stars: Vandy Psychology Scores Big!!

Jan. 4, 2016—Psychological Sciences at Vanderbilt has three current faculty members - Joe Franklin, Sonya Sterba and Jennifer Trueblood - and one former graduate student - Josh Bucholtz - honored as Rising Stars by the Association for Psychological Science. The Ri...

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Congratulations Doug!

Dec. 10, 2015—Doug Godwin won this year’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award given annually by the College of Arts and Science for "for exceptionally effective classroom and/or laboratory instruction, as determined by students he has worked with and a pan...

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Congratulations Rob Reinhart!

Nov. 23, 2015—Rob has been selected to receive an American Psychological Foundation 2015 COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship. As a recipient of this scholarship, he will receive $1,000. The Foundation will also publish notification of his award in the APA Monitor o...

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Congratulations Sun-Joo!

Nov. 4, 2015—Sun-Joo Cho, will be receiving the 2016 Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement from the National Council on Measurement in Education! Below is some information about the award. What a wonderful honor to be recognized in this ...

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Congratulations Sonya Sterba!

Oct. 21, 2015—Sonya K. Sterba is named the 2015 recipient of the Cattell Early Career Research Award: The Cattell Early Career Research Award is named for Raymond B. Cattell, a founder of SMEP. This award is an early-career award given annually by the Society to a y...

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Congratulations Sam Ling!

Sep. 18, 2015—Sam Ling, postdoctoral alumnus from the Blake lab, is an assistant professor at Boston University, and was recently awarded a prestigious Peter Paul Professorship. This award is given annually to promising junior educators in recognition of their exce...

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Jennifer Coppola wins the Lisa M. Quesenberry Scholarship

Apr. 22, 2015—The Lisa M. Quesenberry Scholarship Fund was established by Irvin and Mary Ann Quesenberry and Kathryn Quesenberry to memorialize the accomplishments of their daughter and sister, Lisa M. Quesenberry. The scholarship is designed to provide research or ...

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May Shen and Yao Jiang win The William F. Hodges Teaching Assistant Award

Apr. 22, 2015—This award recognizes outstanding achievement as a teaching assistant by a graduate student in the Department of Psychology. William Hodges was an undergraduate and a graduate student at Vanderbilt in the 1960s. After his untimely death in 1992, family...

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Rob Reinhart wins The Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

Apr. 22, 2015—This award is named after Pat Burns, who was Education Coordinator in the Department of Psychology until her death several years ago; Pat touched generations of doctoral students during her nearly four decades of service to Vanderbilt University. In me...

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Josh Cosman and Jennifer Richler win Bob Fox Award of Excellence in Post-Doctoral Research

Apr. 22, 2015—This award is granted to post-doctoral fellows in the Department of Psychology who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in research; it is named in honor of Robert "Bob" Fox for his essential role in guiding the evolution of Vanderbilt's Psycholog...

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