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Clinical Psychology Ranked 14th!!!

5/10/2012 10:33 am — Vanderbilt University Psychological Sciences clinical program is ranked 14th in the country by US News and World Report.    

Congratulations Randolph!

5/1/2012 10:37 am — Congratulations to Professor Randolph Blake who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 1, 2012.

2012 Psychology Day Awards!

4/26/2012 8:52 am — Three awards were presented to graduate students in the Department of Psychology during the Psychology Day celebration on Tuesday April 24. First, congratulations to Michael Treadway winner of the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award for outstanding achievement in research. Second, congratulations to Neal Morton winner of the William T. Hodges Teaching Assistant Award which recognizes outstanding work as a teaching assistant in the Department of Psychology. Finally, congratulations to Pooja Balaram as winner of the Lisa B. Quesenberry Foundation Award. An award given to a female graduate student studying the field of psychology.   Also congratulations to Amir Aschner as winner of the Jum C. Nunnally Research award which recognizes the student with the most outstanding undergraduate honors project.

Congratulations Frank, Rene and David !!

4/23/2012 2:23 pm — Congratulations to Frank Tong, Rene Marois and David Zald, all of whom have been promoted to Professors of Psychology.

Congratulations Graduate Students!!!

Congratulations Graduate Students!!!

4/11/2012 6:48 pm — Great news! The Psychological Sciences Program had tremendous success in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program this year. Kudos to Michele Cox (Maier Lab), Ayzit Doydum (McCandliss Lab), Emily Fyfe (Rittle-Johnson Lab) and Sonia Poltoratski (Tong Lab), all of whom have been awarded an NSF research fellowship. Congratulations on their achievement!   Congratulations are also due to Robert Reinhart (Woodman lab), Kelsey Laird (Walker Lab) and Kao-Wei Chua (Gauthier Lab) each of whom received an honorable mention for their Fellowship application.  

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Events

5/24/2012 — Dissertation Defense
2:00 pm in 316 Wilson Hall
Stephenie Harrison (Gauthier Lab)
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
2:00pm
316 Wilson Hall

"Investigating the Effect of Race on the Holistic Processing of Faces"

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5/29/2012 — Dissertation Defense
12:00 pm in 316 Wilson Hall
Katy Thakkar (Park Lab)
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
12:00pm
316 Wilson Hall

"Inhibition and Monitoring of Saccadic Eye Movements in Schizophrenia"

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5/30/2012 — Dissertation Defense
7:00 pm in 316 Wilson Hall
Mary Baldwin (Kaas Lab)
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
7:00pm
316 Wilson Hall

"Connections of the Superior Colliculus with Visual Brain Structures in Galagos, Tree Shrews, and Gray Squirrels"

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