Ruby Basyouni receives the Harold H. Kelley Award
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Ruby Basyouni (Social Area) for receiving the Harold H. Kelley Award for her paper titled “Mapping the Social Landscape: Tracking Patterns of Interpersonal Relationships.” The Kelley Award has been given since 1997 and honors an exceptionally meritorious research paper addressing basic issues or theory in social psychology.
8 graduate students receive Clinical Area awards
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to the 8 graduate students for receiving Clinical Area awards.
Juan Luis Romero Sosa selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Juan Luis Romero Sosa (BNS Area) for being selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience. The Neuroscience Scholars Program is a two-year online training program open to underrepresented graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
Rocio Burgos-Calvillo and Professor Greenfield receive a Latinx Studies Seed Grant for their project
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Patricia Greenfield (PI) and Developmental Area graduate student Rocio Burgos-Calvillo (Co-PI) on receiving a Latinx Studies Seed Grant for their project titled “Cultural Mismatch in Peer Relations: A Natural Experiment in UCLA’s Living/Learning Communities.”
6 graduate students receive Psychology Department Endowed Fellowships
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to the 6 graduate students for receiving Psychology Department Endowed Fellowships. Thank you to our generous donors for making this possible!
Jordan Parker receives the 2022 Graduate Student Award from APA Division 35 Section 1 (Psychology of Black Women)
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Jordan Parker (Health Area) for receiving the 2022 Graduate Student Award from APA Division 35 Section 1 (Psychology of Black Women). This award recognizes the work of a Black woman graduate student in psychology for a paper evaluated on its creativity, innovation and the degree to which it furthers understanding of the role of gender in Black women’s lives.
Stephanie Yu receives the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology/APA Division 53 2022 Student Achievement Award in Research
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Stephanie Yu (Clinical Area) for receiving the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP)/APA Division 53 2022 Student Achievement Award in Research.
Wesley Meredith is selected to participate in the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience training program
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Wesley Meredith (Developmental Area) for being selected to participate in the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience training program.
Siôbhan Glynn receives the Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Siôbhan Glynn (Developmental Area) for receiving the Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship is to support graduate students from across the UCLA campus who exemplify values of diversity in their academic, professional, and service activities.
Sara Schiff receives the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Sara Schiff (Clinical Area) for receiving the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) Travel Grant. Funded through donations from friends and supporters of CSW, travel grants assist UCLA students with travel expenses related to academic or professional conference presentations and field research on women, gender, and sexuality.
13 graduate students receive the Graduate Division Graduate Research Mentorship
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to our Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM) Program recipients! The following 13 graduate students received the Graduate Division Graduate Research Mentorship, which is designed to assist students in acquiring and developing advanced research skills under faculty mentorship.
Jordan Parker receives the Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, Graduate Award from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Jordan Parker (Health Area) for receiving the Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, Graduate Award from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Wesley Meredith receives a National Institutes of Health T32 Predoctoral Fellowship
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Wesley Meredith (Developmental Area) for being awarded a National Institutes of Health T32 Predoctoral Fellowship with the Brain and Behavioral Development during Adolescence Program.
36 graduate students receive the Graduate Division Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to our Graduate Summer Research Mentorship recipients! 36 graduate students received the Graduate Division Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, which provides financial support for conducting research under the close mentorship of a faculty member this summer.
Claudia Aguirre receives a fellowship award from the Enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Substance Abuse
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Claudia Aguirre (BNS Area) for receiving a fellowship award from the Enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Substance Abuse (eIRTI) at the University of Southern California.
Emily Neer selected to participate in the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows program
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Emily Neer (Developmental Area) for being selected to participate in the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program through the Office of Instructional Development.
Megan Imundo selected to participate in the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows program
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Megan Imundo (Cognitive Area) for being selected to participate in the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program through the Office of Instructional Development.
Pamala Dayley receives the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Pamala Dayley (Social Area) on being awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program, sponsored by the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force.
Claudia Aguirre selected to participate in the Diversity in Addiction Research Training Summer Research Fellowship Program
Date published: 06/30/22
Congratulations to Claudia Aguirre (BNS Area) for being selected to participate in the Diversity in Addiction Research Training (DART) Summer Research Fellowship Program at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Prof. Miller to Receive John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award
Date published: 06/28/22
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Greg Miller, who will receive the John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award at the September 2022 meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. The award recognizes an exceptional scholar in the field of psychopathology who has demonstrated continuous dedication to mentoring students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty in the field. Notably, recipients are selected based on having “trained a number of students who have gone on to make their own independent and substantial contributions to the field of psychopathology.”