May 22, 2012 

Department Commencement a resounding success

The Psychology Department's 2012 Commencement Ceremony was a great success. A report on the ceremony that includes videos of the commencement addresses given by Department Chairperson Tom Wallsten, Student Commencement Speaker Brandon Bowers, Director of Undergraduate Studies Scott Roberts and the Keynote Address by Harold Koplewicz can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://umdpsyc.blogspot.com/2012/05/congratulations-to-2012-psyc-terp.html

May 22, 2012 

Michelle Gelfand's research featured in "Science"

Michelle Gelfand's research is featured in a special issue of "Science" that is focused on human conflict. The article is entitled Understanding minds to win over hearts" and can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_05_18/caredit.a1200055

May 9, 2012 

Department wins Undergraduate Teaching award

The department has been awarded the Departmental Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching for the 2011-2012 academic year, by the CTE-Lilly Teaching Fellows, the Center for Teaching Excellence, and the Office of Undergraduate Studies. The award citation reads in part: We were particularly impressed with the great advances that the Department of Psychology has made in improving undergraduate education in the major to address the needs of 21st century learners. Your commitment to change through new hires, increasing the number of tenure track faculty teaching in the undergraduate program, course redesign for both lower level general education and gateway courses, innovation in the use of technology to address teaching and learning challenges, and your connection to campus resources beyond the department were all mentioned by the CTE-Lilly Teaching Fellows in selecting Psychology as this years awardee. The departments holistic approach to improving the undergraduate experiences in Psychology courses from PSCY100 through your new PSCY300 Research Methods in Psychology Laboratory all reflect a deep commitment to undergraduate learning and can serve as a model for other departments with large undergraduate enrollments. We applaud the departments ADOPT initiative (Advancing Department of Psychology Teaching) to improve graduate student instructional training which mandates that all GTAs attend an annual orientation covering evidence-based pedagogy, the effective use of classroom technologies, and your newly redesigned PSYC 798B Psychology of Teaching course.

May 9, 2012 

Infant and Child Studies Consortium participated in Maryland Day

Faculty and students from the Psychology Department recently participated in the 14th annual Maryland Day on Saturday, April 28 . This is a family-friendly event with 400 interactive exhibits, workshops and live performances. This year, the campus saw 65,780 visitors. Psychology faculty and students were part of the Take a Break Tent for Families put on by the Infant and Child Studies Consortium (for further info about the Consortium see the link below). This consortium brings together researchers from 4 different departments on campus (Hearing and Speech Sciences, Linguistics, Human Development, and Psychology) who conduct research on infants and children of all ages. At the booth, faculty and students talked to hundreds of parents about their research activities. Parents of 178 children signed up to participate in future studies. This number will only increase as families mail in postcards they took home to fill out. At the booth children enjoyed playing at bubble and coloring stations around the tent and parents of infants took full advantage of the diaper changing station inside the tent. Researchers handed out water and juice to thirsty families and gave away prizes for visitors to take home (bubbles and balls for kids; magnet clips, water bottles, hand sanitizer, and pens for parents). This is one example of the community outreach activities related to research on childrens development in the Psychology Department. The next upcoming outreach activity by this group is Development Discovery night on May 18 at 6pm. At this event parents can discover more about the Infant and Child Studies labs and results from recent and ongoing studies! This event is for the whole family and will include light refreshments, a small play area, and changing station.

More Info: http://infantstudies.umd.edu

April 23, 2012 

Doctoral program in Counseling psychology APA accreditation renewed

The doctoral program in Counseling psychology's application for continued accreditation by the American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation has been approved for the maximum length of time.

April 23, 2012 

Dr. Michael Dougherty on the Diane Rehm show

Mike Dougherty was on the Diane Rehm show discussing racial profiling in America. More info can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-04-16/racial-profiling-america

April 19, 2012 

Psychology researchers featured in NYT Magazine

Research by Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl is featured in a New York Times Magazine piece entitled "Can you make yourself smarter?" You can read the NYT article at the link below.

More Info: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hpw

April 13, 2012 

Dr. Tom Wallsten awarded the 2012 Dean's Medal

Tom Wallsten has been awarded the 2012 Deans Medal. The Deans Medal is intended as the highest honor the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences can bestow. This award is given to members of the College community with an outstanding record of sustained contributions. Further, the award acknowledges a career distinguished by a dedication to the fulfillment of the Colleges goals and mission, by professional accomplishments, and by service. Congratulations Tom!!

April 13, 2012 

Laura Sherman wins First Place Award for GRID presentation

Laura Sherman was invited to present her research at the Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID) as part of a panel on Human Behavior and the Cognitive Mind. Laura's presentation won the First Place Award for her panel. Congratulations Laura!

April 2, 2012 

Dr. M. Colleen Byrne elected president of APTC

M. Colleen Byrne has been elected president of the Association of Psychology Training Clinics (APTC)

March 21, 2012 

Dr. Susanne Jaeggi awarded the prestigious Haller Medal

Dr. Susanne Jaeggi has been awarded a Haller Medal by the University of Bern. Only one Haller Medal is awarded each year. The award notification indicated that Dr. Jaeggi was awarded the Medal to honor "her scientific excellency, which she has obtained by means of interdisciplinary expertise and her versatile methodological competence in the fields of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience." Congratulations Susanne!

March 7, 2012 

Dr. Paul Hanges at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Paul Hanges will be participating in a discussion entitled Creative Dialogue: Shared Leadership and the Orpheus Process at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on March 26 at 7:30 PM. The Orpheus Orchestra is a conductor-less orchestra in which, unlike the typical orchestra, all members have a voice in the groups artistic success. This musical experiment in democracy has been explored for over four decades. In addition to Dr. Hanges th discussion panel will include Gild Chen (professor in the RH Smith School of Business), Melissa Meell (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) & Louis Hanzlik (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra). Kojo Nnamdi (from NPR) will be the moderator of the event. More info can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2010/c/performances/performance?rowid=14344

March 2, 2012 

Dr. Laura MacPherson wins Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award

Laura MacPherson has been honored with the Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award for 2012 from the Behavioral and Integrative Treatment Branch (BITB) in the Division of Clinical Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at NIDA. Congratulations Laura!

March 1, 2012 

Bonnie Brett wins PA-USNC International Travel and Mentoring Program Award

Bonnie Brett has won an award to travel to South Africa to attend the 30th International Congress of Psychology this summer. Funding for registration for the Congress is provided by APA and funding for travel is provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Social Psychology Program. While she is at the Conference Bonnie will be paired with a mentor who will guide her in networking, making international contacts, and formulating cross-cultural research. Bonnie is a a graduate student working in Jude Cassidy's lab. Congratulations, Bonnie!

February 13, 2012 

Dr. Michael Dougherty's research featured in Terp magazine

Dr. Mike Dougherty's research has been featured in a Terp magazine article entitled "Brain Training". A PDF of the article can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://psychology.umd.edu/resources/documents/braintrain.pdf

February 10, 2012 

Dr. Gelso wins Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring award

Dr. Charles Gelso has been named by the Society of Counseling Psychology as the 2011-2012 winner of the Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring award. The award is given in recognition of Dr. Gelso's "enthusiasm for teaching students about scientific thought and investigation, challenging and supportive mentoring style, and continued mentoring relationships with (his) advisees well after they graduate." Congratulations Charlie!

February 7, 2012 

Alex Jacobsen selected as an Emerging Behavioral and Social Science Scholar

Alex Jacobsen has been selected as an Emerging Behavioral and Social Science Scholar position this semester. Jointly funded by BSOS and the Department of Psychology, Alex has a paid assistantship working with Department faculty on their research. This semester Alex will be working with Drs. Roberts, Stangor and Curtis on their research related to learning outcome assessments. More information can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://umdpsyc.blogspot.com/2012/02/psyc-bsos-fund-emerging-scholar.html

February 7, 2012 

Lindsey Zemeir selected as an Emerging Behavioral and Social Science Scholar

Lindsey Zemeir has been selected as an Emerging Behavioral and Social Science Scholar position this semester. Jointly funded by BSOS and the Department of Psychology, Lindsey has a paid assistantship working with Department faculty on their research. Lindsey will be working with Drs. De Los Reyes and Dougherty on their research related to improving the quality of adolescent social anxiety assessments. More information can be found at the link below.

More Info: http://umdpsyc.blogspot.com/2012/02/psyc-bsos-fund-emerging-scholar.html

January 23, 2012 

Jens Herberholz named Associate Editor

Jens Herberholz has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the journal Behaviour

December 17, 2011 

Happy Holidays to all

The department's efforts to Adopt A Family in conjunction with the Prince Georges Department of Human Services has raised over $1500 in addition to numerous gifts to help provide for less fortunate families in the area. Contributions from staff, grad students, faculty, research associates, and others were used to purchase coats, gloves, hats, clothing, food, diapers and toys for the children for two families that together included a grandmother, two mothers and seven children. Thank you to everyone who contributed and especially to those who organized the collection, shopped for gifts, and wrapped the presents.

December 7, 2011 

Dr. Gelfand awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award

Dr. Michele Gelfand has been awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for her work in the area of comparative cultural and conflict psychology. Dr. Gelfand will be honored at an award ceremony at the Humboldt Foundation in Germany in autumn 2012, and plans on working closely with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues at Jacobs University Bremen. More information can be found at the link below. Congratulations Michele!

More Info: http://www.bigsss-bremen.de/events/singleview/datum/2011/11/28/bigsss-nominee-receives-EUR-250000-anneliese-maier-research-award-of-alexander-von-humboldt-foundat/

November 8, 2011 

Cindy Moss featured on the Diane Rehn show

Cindy Moss took part in discussion about the declining bat population in the United States on NPR's Diane Rehm show. You can listen to the broadcast at the link below.

More Info: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-07/declining-us-bat-population

November 2, 2011 

Dr. Scott Roberts named a Center for Teaching Excellence Lilly Teaching Fellow

Scott Roberts has been selected as one of this year's Center for Teaching Excellence Lilly Teaching Fellows. The CTE-Lilly Fellowship provides faculty an enriching opportunity to spend a year interacting with colleagues from various disciplines in a guided conversation about Scholarship in Practice, teaching and learning, which serves to support individual faculty as well as the campuss academic culture.

September 26, 2011 

Dr. De Los Reyes wins President's New Researcher Award

Dr. Andy De Los Reyes has been given the 33rd Annual President's New Researcher Award given by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He will receive the award at the ABCT's annual meeting in Toronto in November. Congratulations Andy!

September 6, 2011 

Dr. Charles Gelso gives two invited addresses

Dr. Charles Gelso presented an invited paper entitled "Crossing the Theoretical Line: Non-Analytic Activity in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy" at the 2011 Conference of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration in June. Dr. Gelso also gave an invited paper entitled "Crossing Theoretical Lines: The Role and Effect of Transference in Non-Analytic Psychotherapies" at the 2011 conference of the American Psychological Association in August

August 30, 2011 

Migration to Microsoft Exchange

The migration of the Psychology Department from OACS to the Exchange server at OIT is scheduled for 9/16 and 9/17. The migration will take place after hours to minimize disruption. The migration will take place in 4 steps: Step 1: OACS exports your GroupWise archive files to a file that is readable by Outlook. There will be a GroupWise email outage during the export. Step 2: OACS staff installs Outlook 2010 onto your computer. Step 3: Actual migration of your email / contacts / calendar from GroupWise to Exchange. Please note that GroupWise will become unavailable at this point. You may, however, begin to use Exchange. Step 4: Configuration of Outlook 2010/Access to Email Archives

August 25, 2011 

Paul Hanges has been appointed to the OBA Bank Board of Directors

Paul Hanges has been appointed to the OBA Bank Board of Directors. More information can be found at the link below

More Info: http://baltimore.citybizlist.com/1/2011/8/4/Paul-Hanges-Ph.D.-Appointed-to-the-OBA-Bank-Board-of-Directors.aspx