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Two Assistant Professors Selected as 2026-27 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Jaime Castrellon and Yi Feng for being selected as 2026-27 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows. The program provides support and encouragement for the research of promising Assistant Professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research.

Prof. Lieder Receives 2026 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Falk Lieder for receiving a 2026 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award. This award honors the considerable dedication of UCLA faculty who consistently and enthusiastically serve as effective mentors to undergraduate students involved in research or creative inquiry.

Graduate News

Congratulations to Lucas Strickland for receiving the Shelley Taylor Dissertation Award 

Lucas Strickland (Social Area) received the Shelley Taylor Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled “Perceiving Gender Identity: Mental Representation, Categorization, and Evaluation of Transgender Targets.” This award has been given since 2013 and honors an exceptionally meritorious dissertation completed by a graduate student whose primary advisor is in the Social Area.

Congratulations to Kasheena Rogbeer for receiving the Harold H. Kelley Award

Kasheena Rogbeer (Social Area) for received the Harold H. Kelley Award for her paper titled “Solidarity as a Bridge: Shared Discrimination Is Indirectly Associated with Voting Intentions Among People of Color.” This award has been given since 1997 and honors an exceptionally meritorious research paper addressing basic issues or theory in social psychology.

Undergrad News

2026 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

Congratulations to the nearly 1,700 students who participated in the Psychology Undergraduate Commencement Celebration this year!

Congratulations to Gold Medalist Alysa Liu!

Congratulations to Alysa Liu for winning the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. She finished the games with two gold medals: her individual medal and one from the team competition. More information is available at the UCLA Newsroom.

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 Zili Liu

Why does the world look the way it does? We experience vision as direct contact with reality. The world appears to be “there,” fully formed in front of us. Yet from the perspective of the brain, perception is an extraordinarily difficult problem. The retinal image is only two-dimensional (2D), incomplete, and fundamentally ambiguous. Many different 3D worlds could produce the same image projected onto the retina. And yet, almost effortlessly, we perceive a stable and coherent reality. My research asks how the brain accomplishes this.

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