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Welcome to UIC Psychology News! Here you’ll find news on faculty and students, information on upcoming department colloquia "Current Topics", The Black Scholar Series, and conferences, as well as notifications of important dates and deadlines. You’ll also find an archive of our month department newsletters.

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Professor Pauline M. Maki was featured on NBC's Today website

Posted on September 29, 2015

Professor Pauline M. Maki was feature on NBC's Today website and other media outlets for a new North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Position Statement on Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms and was the featured guest of a 1-hour call-in show on Sirius XM Doctor Radio on menopause.

Professor Jenny Wiley ?has received a 3-year NSF grant

Posted on September 17, 2015

Professor Jenny Wiley ?has received a 3-year NSF grant entitled "Effects of diagrams and spatial skills on undergraduate students' illusions of understanding of introductory biology and geoscience texts"

Assistant Professor Matt Motyl, as part of the Open Science Collaboration, published an article in the Journal Science

Posted on August 28, 2015

Assistant Professor Matt Motyl, as part of the Open Science Collaboration, published an article in the journal Science entitled, “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”. The study conducted 100 high-powered, direct replications of 100 studies in three top journals in social and/or cognitive psychology and found that the majority do not replicate, and that the effect sizes were about 50% smaller than was reported in the original study. So far, 56 stories have come out discussing the findings in this paper.

Professor Emerita Stephanie Riger receives the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award

Posted on August 26, 2015

Professor Emerita Stephanie Riger recently received the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from APA Division 35. The Carolyn Wood Sherif Award is the highest award conferred by the Society for the Psychology of Women. It is given to a senior individual based on sustained and substantial contributions to the field of the psychology of women as a scholar, teacher, mentor and leader. Thus, selection requires evidence of excellence across research and scholarship, teaching and mentoring and professional leadership. The recipient receives a cash prize and is invited to deliver the Sherif Memorial Lecture at the following APA convention. The winner also chairs the award committee in the year following the lecture.