Congratulations to Dr. Leah Pound, who is now a Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Research Program Manager at the Department of Defense, to Dr. Mora Reinka, who is now an assistant professor at Ursinus College, to Dr. Gabriel Camacho, who is now an assistant professor at John Jay College, and to Dr. Aerielle M. Allen, […]
Dr. Kim Chaney joins the social area faculty
We are thrilled to welcome a new colleague, Dr. Kim Chaney, as an assistant professor in social psychology and the diversity sciences group in the Psychological Sciences Dept. Here is a nice article about CLAS’s new hires, featuring Kim at the bottom: CLAS Dr. Chaney is teaching PSYC 5703 Advanced Social Psychology this semester.
Tenure Success for Dr. Nicole Overstreet & Dr. Andrew L. Stewart !
Dr. Nicole Overstreet (Uconn PhD. 2012) and Dr. Andrew L. Clark (UConn PhD. 2014) have each been granted tenure by Clark University. Our congratulations to each of them! We have such fantastic alumni and students! Dr. Overstreet’s homepage. Dr. Stewart’s homepage.
UConn PhD students attend Summer Institute
PhD students Andrew Cortopassi and Gabriel Camacho attended the Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISSP) hosted by New York University in 2019.
PhD student Gabriel Camacho wins multiple awards!
Congratulations to Gabe for winning: + An APS RISE Award for his poster titled, “The Adverse Effect of Stereotype Threat on the Speech Performance of Latinx Students,” presented at the 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. (co-authored by Diane M. Quinn) + A Grant-in-Aid from the Society for the Psychological Study of […]
American Psychological Association recognizes David A. Kenny
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Dave Kenny received the American Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution at the APA’s annual conference in August, 2019. https://www.apa.org/about/awards/scientific-contributions?tab=3 Specifically, the citation reads: For his outstanding contributions to both theory and methods for studying social perception and behavior. Kenny’s work on person perception, under the general rubric of the “social relations […]
ISPP recognizes Felicia Pratto with the Jeanne Knutson Award
At its July, 2019 annual meeting in Lisbon, the International Society for Political Psychology (https://www.ispp.org/ ) gave the Jeanne Knutsen award to Prof. Felicia Pratto for her long-standing service to the scientific society. The award is named in honor of the late Dr. Jeanne Knutsen, ISPP’s founder.
Prof. Felicia Pratto elected again to serve ISPP
Felicia Pratto will become the president-elect of the International Society of Political Psychology at the end of its annual meeting in July 12-15 in Lisbon. She will serve in that capacity til July, 2020, when she becomes president and will host the annual meeting in Berlin in July 2021, whereupon she becomes past-president (each of […]
Kudos to Dr. Mary Crawford!
UConn emerita professor Mary Crawford was awarded the Carolyn Wood Sherif award from Div. 35 of APA in 2018. “The award is given to a senior individual based on sustained and substantial contributions to the field of the psychology of women as a scholar, teacher, mentor and leader.” How well deserved! You do us proud, […]
Alumna Dr. Jessa LaCroix’s work on suicide prevention in the military
An article in the September 2017 Military Medical Research News describes how Jessica LaCroix’s program is training military chaplains to prevent suicide. Begins on front page. 9 – DRP SEPTEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER – VOLUME 4 ISSUE 9