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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.

Prof. Ng Receives 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Award in Inclusive Excellence

Congratulations to Associate Professor Lauren Ng for receiving a 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Award in the category of Inclusive Excellence. Lauren will be honored at the Life Sciences Excellence Awards Celebration on June 4.

Graduate News

Congratulations to Yesenia Aguilar Silvan for receiving the 2026 Dena Chertoff Graduate Student Service Award

Yesenia Aguilar Silvan (Clinical Area) for received the 2026 Dena Chertoff Graduate Student Service Award. Established in 2009 to honor Dena Chertoff (who served as graduate advisor for 38 years), this departmental award honors graduate students who have made outstanding contributions to the overall well-being of the students, faculty, and staff in the department.

Congratulations to Kevin Tan for receiving the 2026 Joseph A. Gengerelli Distinguished Dissertation Award

Kevin Tan (Social and Affective Neuroscience Area) received the 2026 Joseph A. Gengerelli Distinguished Dissertation Award for having the most outstanding dissertation in our department this year. This award honors Professor Gengerelli, who is remembered for his teaching, guidance of students, innovative research, and departmental leadership.

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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