UGA Psychology Faculty Present Research at Global Vision Meeting

October, 2010

We are pleased to announce that Katie Devine, a 2008 PhD from our program, is the recipient of the 2015 Society of Pediatric Psychology's (SPP) Routh Early Career Award. SPP is Division 54 of the American Psychological Association. She will receive the award in April 2015 at the Annual SPP Conference in San Diego. Katie is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Studies at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

The Leadership and Performance Dynamics (LPD) Lab is an Industrial-Organizational Psychology research lab at the University of Georgia led by Dr. Brian Hoffman. Topics studied in the LPD Lab include leadership, selection and assessment, psychological testing, and changing nature of work. 

New UGA research by Dr. Adam Goodie and colleagues shows people are better at strategic reasoning than was thought

November, 2010

UGA Primate Research Featured on Discovery News

December, 2010

New research by graduate student Qing (Freya) Liu and Professor Dorothy Fragaszy found that wild bearded capuchin monkeys put together their own nut-cracking devices and are experts at using them. Their research was recently featured on Discovery News.

Two UGA Psychology Graduate Students Featured in APA Magazine

December, 2010

Congratulations to graduate students Liz Simpson and Erin Colbert-White for having their research featured in the November issue of gradPSYCH Magazine published by the American Psychological Association. Nice work!

Clinical Program Student Receives Graduate School Dean's Award

January, 2011

Temilola Salami, a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program, was awarded a Dean's Award from the UGA Graduate School. Given to graduate students in the Social Sciences, this award is intended to help defray the cost of dissertation or thesis research. Congratulations, Temilola!

Insitute for Behavioral Research Renamed to Honor Founder

January, 2011

As it marks its 40th anniversary, the University of Georgia Institute for Behavioral Research is being renamed in honor of founding director Bill Owens and his wife, Barbara, who is continuing her late husband's legacy with a $1 million gift. More Information

Professor Wins National Publication Award

February, 2011

Professor Joshua Miller recently won the 2010 Walter Klopfer Award, which is given by the Society for Personality Assessment for an article that makes a distinguished contribution to the personality assessment literature. Dr. Miller's article [Abstract] was co-authored by a team of scientists, including two UGA clinical psychology program graduate students (Lauren Few and Jessica Maples).

Graduate Students Receive National Science Foundation Research Fellowships

April, 2011