Dr. Katie Ehrlich is a recipient of the 2019 Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. Named for the first elected APS president, this award celebrates the many new and leading-edge ideas coming out of the most creative and promising investigators who embody the future of psychological science. Dr. Ehrlich's work investigates the social determinants of health in children, specifically examining how stress exposure is linked to children’s antibody response to vaccination. Congratulations Dr. Ehrlich!!

Big THANK YOUs out to our great Psychology faculty for going out of their way to make sure our students receive the very best teaching, training, and development assistance for their careers.

Dr. Isha Metzger and Dr. Janet Frick recently presented to Cedar Shoals High School Peer Leadership students on the issues of trauma and human development. Together, they discussed the field of psychology, development, trauma, and the ways that early experiences shape later development. The students enjoyed being able to ask questions and learn from Dr. Metzger and Dr. Frick as prominent members of the field. Thanks for your community outreach, Dr. Metzger and Dr. Frick!

Congratulations Dr. Katie Ehrlich on receiving a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship! The Jacobs Foundation Fellowship Program is a globally competitive program for early and mid-career researchers conducting interdisciplinary work related to children and youth. Dr. Ehrlich's work focuses on how children's relationships and life experiences influence their mental and physical health utilizing a variety of methods, including clinical health outcomes, measures of cellular function, and measures of adaptive immunity. Congratulations Dr. Ehrlich!

The Psychology Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Albert Powers from Yale University Department of Psychiatry for a special guest lecture on Wednesday, January 30th at 3:30pm in Psychology Room 120. Dr. Powers is the Medical Director of Yale Psychosis Research Clinic and will giving a talk titled "Conditioned Hallucinations: Toward Development of Computational Markers for Early Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment." Welcome Dr. Powers!

Congratulations to Dr. Anne Shaffer who just received an R34 grant from NIMH! The project is a collaboration with Dr. Claire Aarnio-Peterson, a 2014 UGA clinical psychology graduate who is now at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Shaffer and Dr. Aarnio-Peterson are piloting an enhancement of Family Based Therapy for adolescents with anorexia that targets family emotion communication. Congratulations Dr. Shaffer!

Dr. Allison Howard just received the Office of Sustainability Faculty mini-grant to support her teaching and enhance her classes with virtual reality using two Oculus Go. The Office of Sustainability gives these mini-grants with the objective of enhancing teaching of sustainability. Dr. Howard will be using two Oculus Go in her sections of Comparative and Physiological Psychology this semester. She will use the headsets to allow students to "visit" primatology field sites, glaciers, penguins in Antarctica, etc.

BBS Graduate student Michael Snell received a prestigious UX Research internship with Facebook. He will be working in Menlo Park, California for 12 weeks this summer. Congratulations Michael!

Dr. Jasmine Abrams, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, presented her research on the Strong Black Woman Schema and its connection to depressive symptoms to students and faculty of the UGA Clinical Psychology program. We were so happy to have Dr. Abrams speak about her research and welcome her to campus!