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Shelly Ball receives dissertation enhancement grant

Dec. 29, 2008—Congratulations to Shelly Ball (Psychology and Human Development) who received a dissertation enhancement grant.

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Kaas wins A&S Graduate Mentoring Award

Dec. 10, 2008—At the meeting of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences on December 10, Jon Kaas won the prestigious College of Arts and Science Graduate Mentoring Award. Congratulations to Jon for this recognition of his decades of excellence in graduate me...

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Erin Rodriguez wins NRSA Fellowship

Nov. 21, 2008—Erin Rodriguez wins NRSA fellowship. Erin's project, "Communication, Coping and Executive Function in Children with Cancer" was selected for funding by the National Cancer Institute (Bruce Compas is her mentor on this grant). She joins recent Peabody P...

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Tong, Blake, McNamara honored for their work

Aug. 27, 2008—At the fall faculty assembly on August 26, three of our faculty were honored for their research and service to VanderbiltFrank Tong won a Chancellor's Award for his ground-breaking research on neural decoding. Randolph Blake won the Jefferson Award for...

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Olatunji wins Early Career Award

Aug. 12, 2008—In recognition of his outstanding research in the area of anxiety disorders, Bunmi Olatunji is the 2008 recipient of the Early Career Award from the Anxiety Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. Way to go, Bunmi!

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Richard McCarty named provost at Vanderbilt

May. 6, 2008—Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has led the largest school at Vanderbilt University for the past seven years, will be presented to the Vanderbilt Board of Trust next week for confirmation as the university's chief academic officer.

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