This year, for the first time in its long and illustrious history, the Psychology department held an undergraduate graduation ceremony on May 11, 2012. Two of them, actually, because although we reserved a large room, we needed two seatings to accommodate all of the graduating seniors who wished to take part. This ceremony was the only opportunity for our graduates to be honored individually for their accomplishment, as we had them marching with their names announced. A special thank you to the many people who made this event possible, especially Dr. Adam Goodie, Dr. Keith Campbell, Dr.

The Department of Psychology recently held its annual awards reception in the reading room of the Miller Learning Center. This reception was a nice opportunity for members of the Psychology Department and their colleagues to honor our students, staff, and faculty for all of their hard work and accomplishments during the 2011-2012 academic year.

The American Psychology Foundation joins the APA Science Directorate in congratulating Michael Amlung, M.S (Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology, The University of Georgia) as a recipient of the American Psychological Foundation's 2012 Ungerleider/Zimbardo Travel Scholarship. This highly-competitive scholarships awarded annually to seven graduate students nation-wide, based on quality of the student's current research and overall scholarly record. Mr.

Allison Howard and Kacy Welsh awarded a grant to develop a Language Across the Curriculum course

Allison Howard and Dr. Kacy Welsh have been awarded a grant to develop a Language Across the Curriculum course in PSYC 1101 (Elementary Psychology) with integrated Portuguese. This course will assist allow more people to access to learning about psychology. For more information on this program, please click this link.

The department is proud to announce that Dr. James MacKillop's research on smoking addiction was recently covered by the UGA website, UGA Today. For more information, please click here.

Recent Psychology Graduate Student Awards

The department is proud to announce several accomplishments and awards that have been given to graduate and undergradate students in Psychology in the past few months.

Dr. James MacKillop received the G. Alan Marlatt Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions from the Society for Addiction Psychology (Division 50 of the American Psychological Association). This award is given annually to recognize distinguished early scientific contributions to the field of addictions and was presented on August 4th at the APA annual convention.

Recent University of Georgia Industirial-Organizational Psychology program graduate Dr. Taylor Sparks was recently chosen as the winner of the best paper for the 2012 Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award. This award was sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership and given to her paper entitled "What Do You Give Me?' Versus 'What Do You Mean to Me?' Exploring the Impact of Ethical Leadership and Abusive Supervision on Employee Well-Being." This paper was chosen from a pool of 97 submissions from 11 countries.

Dr. Campbell's interview by the college of Arts and Sciences

The Department Head of Psychology Keith Campbell, was interviewed by the college of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. To view this video interview of Dr. Campbell, please click here.

The University of Georgia Psychology Department would like to welcome Dr. Lawrence H. Sweet. A clinical neuropsychologist whose research explores the relationship between physical changes in the brain and conditions as diverse as dementia, nicotine dependence and obesity has joined UGA as the inaugural Gary R. Sperduto Professor of Psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. For more information on this story in the Georgia Column, please click here.