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Prof. Parkinson Receives 2025 S4SN Early Career Award

Congratulations to Associate Professor Carolyn Parkinson for receiving a 2025 Early Career Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN). This award recognizes the formation of new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the development or advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition and behaviour.

Prof. Monti Selected as Fulbright U.S. Scholar

Congratulations to Professor Martin Monti for being selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2025-2026 for Japan. Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious fellowships that offer scholars unique opportunities teach and conduct research abroad, playing a critical role in U.S. public diplomacy.

 

Graduate News

Erin Morrow (Cognitive Area) was quoted in a New York Times article !

Erin Morrow (Cognitive Area) was quoted in a New York Times article titled “To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor.” The article is available at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/science/science-budget-cuts-protest-letters.html?smid=url-share

Congratulations to Fran Querdasi (Developmental Area) for receiving the 2025 Millard Madsen Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best developmental dissertation.

Congratulations to Fran Querdasi (Developmental Area) for receiving the 2025 Millard Madsen Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best developmental dissertation. Fran’s dissertation is titled “Early Caregiving Adversity and Internalizing Symptoms in Middle Childhood to Adolescence: Gut Microbiome and Inflammatory Mechanisms,” and her dissertation committee chair is Bridget Callaghan.

Undergrad News

2025 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

Congratulations to the nearly 1,400 students who participated in the Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Celebration this year!

Fall 2025 Schedule of Classes

The Fall 2025 Schedule of Classes is available for students to review to plan Fall quarter schedules.

Transforming Psychology

A New Era for UCLA Psychology

Please visit our Transforming Psychology website for information about exciting plans to transform UCLA’s iconic Psychology Tower (now named Pritzker Hall) into a collaborative, modern learning and research environment for one of the nation’s top psychology departments.

Faculty Spotlight

Highlighting Faculty Member Barbara Knowlton

My lab is focused on understanding learning and memory. Much of my work is motivated by the insight that learning is not a unitary phenomenon but consists of very different types of learning that depend on different brain systems.

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