Dykens wins the 2018 Rare Impact Award from the National Organization for Rare Disorders!
May. 22, 2018—Professor Elisabeth Dykens has been selected to receive the 2018 Rare Impact Award from the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Her research focuses on the behavioral studies of Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) and Williams Syndrome and was the first ...
Congratulations Hao Wu!
Apr. 12, 2018—Hao Wu, an incoming member of the Quantitative Methods (QM) Program within the Department of Psychology and Human Development, was just honored with election into the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP). SMEP is a distinguished group...
Smokies Cognition and Neuroscience Symposium [SCANS]
Apr. 2, 2018—The 2018 Smokies Cognition and Neuroscience Symposium [SCANS] sponsored by Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, UNC, and Vanderbilt will be held September 14-15 at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, in Asheville, NC. Participating Vanderbilt Psychology & Psycholo...
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...
Benbow and Lubinski win 2018 ISIR Lifetime Achievement Awards
Feb. 18, 2018—Professors Camilla P. Benbow and David Lubinski have been selected to receive The International Society for Intelligence Research’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. Benbow and Lubinski co-direc...
Sterba wins 2018 Early Career Impact Award from FABBS!
Feb. 13, 2018—Sonya Sterba was awarded the 2018 Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) which "recognizes scientists who have made major contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior." FABBS...
Sterba receives 2018 Anne Anastasi Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from APA!
Feb. 13, 2018—Sonya Sterba, an Associate Professor and Director of the Quantitative Methods Program in the Department of Psychology and Human Development, just won the 2018 Anne Anastasi Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Quantitative and Qualit...
Kate Humphreys named 2018 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star!
Jan. 4, 2018—Kathryn (Kate) Humphreys, who will be joining the department of Psychology & Human Development in 2018, has been selected as a 2018 APS rising star. This prestigious award places Kate among an impressive group of early stage faculty who are already mak...
Emily Fyfe named 2018 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star!
Jan. 2, 2018—Emily Fyfe, a former Peabody Psychology & Human Development Ph.D. student (advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson) has been selected as a 2018 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star. This prestigious award places Emily among an impressive gro...
Welcome Autumn and Kate
Oct. 30, 2017—The Department of Psychology and Human Development would like to welcome two new faculty members, Autumn Kujawa and Kate Humphreys. Autumn Kujawa’s research focuses on identifying predictors of the development of psychopathology and improving early i...