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!!!

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.  

Congratulations Sohee Park!

3/30/2012 8:28 am — Great news. At the spring faculty assembly yesterday Sohee Park was awarded the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award for 2012. This award is conferred upon a Vanderbilt faculty member in recognition of their contributions to understanding problems of contemporary society. Sohee is well deserving of this award for her ground-breaking work on cognitive, affective, and neural components of schizophrenia and its vulnerability. Sohee is the second recent departmental winner of this award - Steve Hollon was the 2007 winner. Such awards are a wonderful reflection on our Clinical Science program and the department as a whole. Congratulations Sohee!!!!!

Congratulations Geoff Woodman!

3/16/2012 9:53 am — Geoff Woodman is the winner of the 2012 Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Young Investigator Award. Geoff is the second member of our faculty to win this prestigious award, which was just initiated in 2007 (Frank Tong was the 2009 winner).   Congratulations Geoff!

Congratulations to Paul Dux, winner of the 2012 Randolph Blake Early Career Award!

2/21/2012 8:39 am —      Paul was a post-doctoral fellow in the Dept of Psychology working with René Marois from 2005 to 2008. Paul received his Ph.D. from Macquarie University (Australia) in 2005. After being at Vanderbilt for 3 years, he accepted a position in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where he is currently a tenured lecturer.      Paul  has broad interests in the area of attention and its neural mechanisms. In his short time as a faculty member, Paul has already amassed 10 publications, including two in Psychological Science. He serves on several editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, and Journal of Experimental Psychology:General.        His rapid rise is also illustrated by his receiving in 2010 the University of Queensland Social and Behavioural Sciences Faculty Research and Innovation Award, and in 2009 the Australian Psychological Society Early Career Research Award, the Australian equivalent of the APA’s Young Investigator Award.  Moreover, in 2011 Paul has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association of Psychological Science (USA).      In addition to these personal accolades, Paul has been very successful in attracting extramural funding, particularly two Australian Research Council Discovery Grants ­– one as the sole PI and the other as co-PI – as well as a National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant.     

2012 Psychological Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award goes to Mringanka Sur

1/23/2012 1:46 pm — Mriganka Sur,  Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, is the 2012 winner of the Distinguished alumnus award. Dr Sur did his Ph.D. work in the laboratory of Jon Kaas, here at Vanderbilt. Mriganka will also double up as our Psychology Day speaker, April 24th!