A big congratulations to Amanda Roy who just awarded a three-year Spencer Foundation grant entitled, “Persistence and resistance: The role of social-emotional competencies in the education and career paths of under-resourced, racial/ethnic minority…
Congratulations to CPR Graduate Student, Carlos Rosas, on being awarded a T32 Fellowship under Dr. Lisa Sanches-Johnsen at the UIC Institute for Minority Health Research. As part of his fellowship. Carlos will receive…
A big congratulations goes out to Erin Berenz who received a pilot grant entitled, “Advancing Translational Science in Community Residential Addiction Treatment” from the Center for Clinical and Translational Science. The project will…
Congratulations to Aimee Karstens, who was selected to receive the American Psychological Foundation’s 2019 Benton-Meier Neuropsychology Scholarship! The scholarship is awarded by APF to only 2 graduate students in the field of neuropsychology!
Elizabeth Wenzel, a graduate student under the mentorship of Dr. Pauline Maki won the Poster Award in Basic Science in the National Network on Depression Centers (NNDC) Annual Meeting for her poster, “Screening…
As a co-Principal Investigator on the 5 year, $3.5 million dollar grant, Kate and her team will be conducting the research and evaluation component of the partnership, testing not only global impacts of…
Kajal Sachdev (BA in Psychology Alumni) won the first place undergraduate poster prize at the American Psychology-Law Society meeting. This project also won the Hirschberg Award last May. Kajal is now on a Fulbright, getting her…
Adolescent marijuana use may alter how neurons function in brain areas engaged in decision-making, planning and self-control, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The findings, which were presented at…
M. W. Montagu asserted that, “civility costs nothing and buys everything.” In the realm of social judgment, the notion that people generally evaluate civil people more favorably than uncivil people may be unsurprising.…
