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Prof. Christensen Receives 2025 Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award for Research

Congratulations to Distinguished Research Professor Andrew Christensen for receiving the 2025 Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award for Research from the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. He was selected for the award based on his numerous and outstanding contributions to the profession through scholarship, supervision, development of innovative interventions, and professional involvement at the state, national, and international level. More information is available at the National Register’s website.

Prof. Craske Included on 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Michelle Craske for being named among the world’s most influential scholars, according to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past 11 years. Researchers selected for the 2025 list have authored multiple studies that rank in the top 1% of scholarly citations worldwide. More information is available at the UCLA Newsroom.

 

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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