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Justin Rhodes named 2012-13 LAS Helen Corley Petit Scholar
Justin Rhodes has been designated as a 2012-2013 Helen Corley Petit Scholar on the basis of his extraordinary record as an assistant professor. Helen Corley Petit, an alumna of the College of LAS who passed away in 2002, provided an endowment for the development of the scholarship and teaching of young faculty members in the College. This is a very competitive and prestigious award; winners are determined by the LAS Executive Committee following the review of all promotion and tenure dossiers in the college. Congratulations, Justin!
Published Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:54:31 -0600 | Link
Daniel Simons elected a Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS
Dan Simons was elected a Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS). Congratulations, Dan!!
Published Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:02:52 -0600 | Link
John Hummel elected a Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS)
John Hummel elected a Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS). Congratulations, John!!
Published Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:44 -0600 | Link
Kara Federmeier elected a Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS)
Kara Federmeier elected a Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS). Congratulations!!!
Published Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:27:56 -0600 | Link
6 Staff members received Department Head Award
Lori Hendricks, Beth Etchison, Betty Heggemeier, Jim Clark, Cindy Foster, Terry Davis received Department Head Award for service above and beyond the usual. Congratulations!!
Published Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:00:27 -0600 | Link
Firmino Pinto received 2011-12 Psychology Department Academic Professional Award
Firmino Pinto has received the 2011-12 Psychology Department Academic Professional Award for Excellence for his help in the transition to Atlas and his willingness to take on so many additional tasks and perform them expertly. Congratulations!!
Published Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:55:21 -0600 | Link
Ashley Ramm received 2011-12 Psycyhology Department Staff Award
Ashley Ramm in the Graduate Studies office has received the 2011-12 Psychology Department Staff Award for Excellence for her wonderful help in dealing with all the database problems, Grad College changes, and the graduate students. Congratulations!!!
Published Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:25 -0600 | Link
Katie Beall wins LAS Staff Award
Katie Beall has been chosen as a recipient of the 2011-2012 LAS Staff Awards, "to honor and reward individuals for their outstanding contributions to the College." Congratulations, Katie!!
Published Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:40:28 -0600 | Link
Marie Heffernan wins the Psychology Graduate Student Teaching Award
Nominations were evaluated in terms of achievement according to the following established criteria: 1. Sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching. 2. Positive impact on undergraduate student learning. 3. Innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching. 4. Other contributions to improve undergraduate instruction. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following: Engaging students in the classroom; developing courses and curricula; mentoring graduate teaching assistants; leading workshops on pedagogy; advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning; or making other multidimensional contributions beyond the classroom, laboratory, or studio. Congratulations Marie!
Published Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:10:09 -0600 | Link
Ed Diener has won the APA Distinguished Scientist Award
Ed Diener has won the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientist Award. This major award honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. Congratulations, Ed!!!
Published Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:14:51 -0600 | Link
Michele J. Gelfand won an Anneliese Maier Research Award
Michele J. Gelfand is Professor of Psychology and Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park
Published Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:55:31 -0600 | Link
Dave Irwin has won a Psychonomic Society 2011 Best Article Award
Dave Irwin has won a Psychonomic Society 2011 Best Article Award for his article in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, "Where does attention go when you blink?". This is the largest of the Psychonomic journals and publishes hundreds of articles each year. Congratulations, Dave!!
Published Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:01:38 -0600 | Link
Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students for Spring 2011
Many of our Faculty, TAs and Instructors have made the Spring 2011 List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students. Results are based on Instructor and Course Evaluation (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation, Center for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations to all!!
Published Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:48:20 -0600 | Link
Hua-Hua Chang has been elected President of the Psychometric Society for 2012-2013
Hua-Hua Chang has been elected President of the Psychometric Society for 2012-2013. This is a wonderful honor and recognition of his contributions to the field. Congratulations, Hua!
Published Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:30:58 -0600 | Link
Harry Triandis receives SPSP Career Contribution Award
Harry Triandis, Professor Emeritus, has won the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Career Contribution Award. This award is designed to honor a scholar who has made major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas. Recipients of this award are recognized for distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive careers. Recognition for the award will come at the upcoming 2012 SPSP meeting. Congratulations, Harry!!
Published Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:53:22 -0600 | Link
Jenessa Sprague and Mona Taylor have each been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the Graduate College Fellowship Board.
Published Thu, 12 May 2011 13:12:44 -0600 | Link
Dana Joseph was selected to receive the Seymour Sudman Dissertation Award
Dana Joseph was selected to receive the Seymour Sudman Dissertation Award given by the Survey Research Laboratory(http://www.srl.uic.edu/ferbersudman.htm). This award recognizes excellence in survey research as part of a doctoral dissertation. Dana's dissertation is entitled, "Leader and follower emotional intelligence, dyadic exchange, and behavioral engagement: A mediated actor-partner interdependence model." Congratulations, Dana!!
Published Wed, 11 May 2011 13:17:01 -0600 | Link
Eden Steege wins the Julie Sutton Osgood Award
The $500 award was established by the mother of Julie Sutton Osgood, whose life was taken at age 28 by a drunk driver. Julie always wanted to be a doctor. As a psychology student at the University of Illinois she was trained as an Emergency Medical Technician and worked summers for an ambulance company. After graduation she completed a paramedic course and worked for the Superior Ambulance Company and became their EMS coordinator through Christ Hospital and Hope Children's hospital. A couple of years later she attended Physicians Assistant School while she continued to work full time. This gift is intended to help students realize their dream of becoming either a Physician or another type of medical practitioner.
Published Wed, 4 May 2011 09:45:08 -0600 | Link
Daniel Miller wins the Janet Tritsch Memorial Award
Daniel Miller is this year's winner of the Janet Tritsch Memorial Award. This award is given for Daniel's senior honors thesis "Evaluation of a Functional Role for Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Pro-cognitive Effects of Exercise." His research advisor is Justin Rhodes. The Janet Tritsch Memorial Award has become a symbol of excellence for undergraduate psychology research at Illinois. The award was established in 1975 by the family and friends of Janet Tritsch who as an undergraduate student was active in psychology research. The award recognizes outstanding research by an undergraduate working in any area of Psychology and is accompanied by a $500 prize. Congratulations Daniel!
Published Tue, 3 May 2011 15:25:53 -0600 | Link
Chun Wang wins the Nancy Hirschberg Memory Award
Chun Wang of the Quantitative division has won the Nancy Hirschberg Memory Award. Nancy Hirschberg was a member of the Psychology Department here in Champaign from 1964 until 1976, when she joined the psychology faculty at the U of I Chicago campus. Shortly after her death in February 1979, her friends and colleagues at both campuses met to establish the Nancy Hirschberg Memorial Fund to create a living remembrance with the hope that her memory will serve to encourage others to attain their full potential. The award is presented each year for outstanding original research or scholarship in areas related to Professor Hirschberg's interests. These areas include individual differences, personality, human judgment, and multivariate analysis. Chun's award is based on her publication of the paper, "Kullback-Leibler information and its applications in multidimensional adaptive testing" (Psychometrika, 76, 13-39).
Published Tue, 3 May 2011 15:24:32 -0600 | Link
Shabnam Javdani wins the Sarah C. Mangelsdorf Award
This award is designed to honor each year an outstanding female graduate student in Psychology who has exhibited excellence in research/scholarship and teaching, and who has shown the potential to be an academic leader. Congratulations Shabnam!
Published Tue, 3 May 2011 15:21:38 -0600 | Link
Patrick Watson wins the Sandra Goss Lucas Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Psychology
Published Tue, 3 May 2011 15:20:14 -0600 | Link
Neal Cohen wins the Mabel Kirkpatrick Hohenboken Teaching Enhancement Award
The Hohenboken Award was established by Mrs. Mabel Hohenboken as a means to reward faculty members in Psychology who have made a particularly distinguished contribution as teachers. The Award provides a cash prize of $1,000.00. The Awardee's name is inscribed on an honor roll located on the third floor of the Psychology Building. Congratulations Neal!
Published Tue, 3 May 2011 15:16:52 -0600 | Link
Pat Laughlin wins the Graduate Student Organization Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Instruction
This award is given annually to the department faculty member who is voted by graduate students to have shown the greatest commitment to graduate teaching. Given the broad scope of graduate education, "teaching" is considered to include classroom teaching, mentoring, official advising, etc. The Awardee's name is inscribed on an honor roll located on the third floor of the Psychology Building. Congratulations Pat!
Published Tue, 3 May 2011 15:14:40 -0600 | Link
John Walker awarded DOD Fellowship
John Walker, a graduate student in the B&C Division who is working with Neal Cohen, Monica Fabiani, and Gabriele Gratton, has just been awarded a three-years Department of Defense Fellowship. This is an extremely competitive award that is offered to very few students each year. Congratulation, John!
Published Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:23:45 -0600 | Link
Edelyn Verona receives Award
Edelyn Verona has won the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to the Scientific Study of Psychopathy for the year 2011 from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. Congratulations, Edelyn!
Published Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:09:34 -0600 | Link
Hua Chang receives AERA Division Award
Hua Chang has been selected to receive the award for Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology from AERA Division D for the following work: Chang, H.-H., & Ying, Z. (2009). Nonlinear sequential designs for logistic item response theory models with applications to computerized adaptive testing. Annals of Statistics, 37, 1466-1488. The award is given to a publication that represents a significant advancement in the theory and practice of educational measurement and/or educational research and is likely to make a major impact on the field. Congratulations, Hua!
Published Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:14:47 -0600 | Link
Katie Beall receives Departmental Staff Award
Katie Beall, in the associate head's office has received the 2010-2011 Departmental Staff Award. Congratulations, Katie!!!
Published Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:21:29 -0600 | Link
Mae Donaldson receives Departmental Staff Award
Mae Donaldson in the business office has received the 2010-2011 Departmental Staff Award. Congratulations, Mae!!!
Published Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:20:13 -0600 | Link
Cheryl Berger receives Departmental Academic Professional Award
Cheryl Berger, Assistant Head for Alumni Affairs has received the 2010-2011 Departmental Academic Professional Award. Congratulations, Cheryl!!!
Published Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:18:02 -0600 | Link
Dolores Albarracin has been named an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study
Dolores Albarracin has been named an Associate by Center for Advanced Study. Each year, the tenured and untenured University of Illinois faculty are invited to submit scholarly or creative proposals for consideration by the Center?s permanent Professors. Faculty members with winning proposals are appointed Associates and Fellows and awarded one semester of release time to pursue their projects in the coming academic year. In accordance with the Center's mission, these appointments provide an incentive to pursue the highest level of scholarly achievement. They also provide faculty members with an unusual opportunity to explore new ideas and demonstrate early results. With the Professors, Associates and Fellows form the intellectual core of the Center for Advanced Study community. They are invited to participate in CAS events and have opportunities to present their work to the CAS community. Thus, each year brings together the established and the new in an ever-changing flux of ideas and disciplines. Congratulations, Dolores!!
Published Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:27:56 -0600 | Link
Lori Hendricks has won the 2010-11 LAS Nancy J. McCowen Distinguished Service Award
Lori Hendricks has won the 2010-11 LAS Nancy J. McCowen Distinguished Service Award. Only one of these awards is given out across the entire College of Liberal Arts and Sciences each year. (Amusingly, in a previous position at the University, Lori worked with Nancy J. McCowen, the person the award is named for.) Congratulations, Lori!
Published Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:32:46 -0600 | Link
Professor Wendy Heller has been selected to receive the 2010 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award
Professor Wendy Heller has been selected to receive the 2010 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for her remarkable leadership and commitment to diversity at Illinois. The award cites Wendy�s advocacy for increasing the number of underrepresented staff and students at Illinois, her efforts in addressing the need for diversity on campus, and her active collaboration with the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Service. Wendy will be honored at the 25th Annual Celebration of Diversity on November 10, 2010. Congratulations, Wendy!!
Published Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:22:36 -0600 | Link
Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students for Spring 2010
Almost 50 of our Faculty, TA and Instructors made the Spring 2010 List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students. Congratulations!!!
Published Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:53:31 -0600 | Link
Harry Triandis Receives APA 2010 William James Book Award
Div. 1 of APA (General Psychology) will present Professor Emeritus Harry Triandis with the William James Book Award for his book, "Fooling ourselves: Self-deception in politics, religion, and terrorism." Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, (2009). The Award will be presented at the annual APA meeting in Washington D.C., (next year) August 4-7, 2011. Congratulations, Harry!!
Published Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:03:22 -0600 | Link
Yung-Jui (Daniel) Yang�s dissertation received Award
Yung-Jui (Daniel) Yang�s dissertation proposal has been selected to receive the 2010 Grants-in-Aid Award of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) (https://www.spssi.org/). This award supports for empirical research that has bearing on public policy as part of a doctoral dissertation. A graduate student of the SPO division Yung-Jui (Daniel) Yang�s dissertation is entitled: "Reacting to globalization: Critical conditions for evocation of hot reactions toward cultural interactions." Congratulations, Daniel!!
Published Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:54:18 -0600 | Link
Kara Federmeier being honored with a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar award in the Understanding Human Cognition program
Congratulations to Kara Federmeier for being honored with a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar award in the Understanding Human Cognition program. The JSFM Scholar Awards support research studying how neural systems are linked to and support cognitive functions and how cognitive systems are related to an organism's observable behavior. Federmeier's research will explore cognitive and neural mechanisms of meaning comprehension.
Published Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:32:01 -0600 | Link
Dan Newman recipient of the 2010 Early Career Achievement Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management
Dan Newman has been selected as a recipient of the 2010 Early Career Achievement Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. The Research Methods Division has over 2,000 members, who primarily work in academic departments of management, psychology, and sociology. To quote from the award description, �The Early Career Achievement award is to be given to an individual who has made distinguished contributions to research methods research, practice, and/or education during the individual's early career stage (defined as within 7 years of receiving the Ph.D). (For the 2010 award, the individual must have received his or her PhD no earlier than 2003). An eligible person will have advanced or facilitated the process of doing organizational research, thus improving the validity of conclusions drawn and inferences made from research, increasing the types of research questions that can be tested, or facilitating the education of research methods. His or her work (broadly defined, and not limited to journal publications) may address improvements in or new methods for research design, data collection, and data analysis. It may also address other aspects of research methodology (e.g., philosophy of science issues; delineation of concepts/constructs), education (e.g., development of research method courses, cases, or tools), and service (e.g., facilitating and/or participating in workshops, consistently making valuable contributions to RMNET, performing service to the Research Methods Division).� Additionally, one of Dan's papers has received the 2010 Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award (also from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management). This award is given for the best article on organizational research methods published in the five year period between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2008. The article is: Newman, D. A., Jacobs, R. R., & Bartram, D. (2007). Choosing the best method for local validity estimation: Relative accuracy of meta-analysis vs. a local study vs. Bayes-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1394-1413. Here is the description of the award: �All published organization-related articles and book chapters that make a significant contribution to research methodology will be eligible for this award. Eligible articles/chapters will advance the process of doing organizational research, thus improving the validity of conclusions drawn and inferences made from research or increasing the types of research questions that can be tested. Articles/chapters may address improvements in or new methods for research design, data collection, and data analysis (broadly defined). They may also address other aspects of research methodology (e.g., philosophy of science issues; delineation of concepts/constructs). Eligible articles/chapters may make sole methodological contributions or dual substantive-methodological contributions.� Congratulations, Dan!!
Published Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:52:43 -0600 | Link
Louise Fitzgerald has been named the APA 2010 recipient of the Heritage Award from Division 35
Louise Fitzgerald, Professor Emeritus has been named the APA 2010 recipient of the Heritage Award from Division 35 (Psychology of Women)for distinguished lifetime research contributions to the psychology of women.
Published Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:34:19 -0600 | Link
Joshua Jackson of the SPO division has won the Seymour Sudman Dissertation Award
Joshua Jackson of the SPO division has won the Seymour Sudman Dissertation Award given by the Survey Research Laboratory (http://www.srl.uic.edu/ferbersudman.htm). This award recognizes excellence in survey research as part of a doctoral dissertation. Josh's dissertation is entitled: "The effect of educational experiences on personality trait development." Congratulations, Josh!
Published Wed, 26 May 2010 15:45:03 -0600 | Link
Jessica Houston wins Janet Tritsch Award
Jessica Houston wins Janet Tritsch Award for 2010. The Janet Tritsch Memorial Award is presented for excellence in undergraduate psychology research.
Published Tue, 11 May 2010 10:30:49 -0600 | Link
Naomi Sadeh wins Sarah Mangelsdorf Award
Naomi Sadeh of the clinical/community division is this year's winner of the Psychology Department's Sarah C. Mangelsdorf Award. This award is designed to honor each year an outstanding female graduate student in Psychology who has exhibited excellence in research/scholarship and teaching, and who has shown the potential to be an academic leader. Congratulations, Naomi!
Published Mon, 3 May 2010 08:58:41 -0600 | Link
John Hummel wins GSO Instructional Award for Excellence in Teaching & Advising
John Hummel has won the GSO Instructional Award for Excellence in Teaching & Advising. This award is given annually to the department faculty member who is voted by graduate students who have shown the greatest commitment to graduate teaching. Given the broad scope of graduate education, "teaching" is considered to include classroom teaching, mentoring, official advising, etc. Congratulations, John!
Published Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:05:00 -0600 | Link
Dana Joseph of the I/O division has won the Nancy Hirschberg Memory Award
Dana Joseph of the I/O division has won the Nancy Hirschberg Memory Award. The award is presented each year for outstanding original research or scholarship in areas related to Professor Hirschberg's interests. These areas include individual differences, personality, human judgment, and multivariate analysis. Dana's award is based on her publication of the paper, "Emotional Intelligence: An Integrative Meta-Analysis and Cascading Model," which appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Congratulations, Dana!
Published Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:18:53 -0600 | Link
Glenn Roisman has won the Psi Chi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
Glenn Roisman has won the Psi Chi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The winner of this award is determined by popular vote of Psi Chi and UPA members. The award recognizes a professor at the university who has demonstrated an extraordinary level of commitment to undergraduate education. Criteria include effectiveness of teaching, knowledge of subject matter, ability to relate well with and devote time to undergraduate students. The Awardee's name is inscribed on an honor roll located on the third floor of the Psychology Building. Congratulations, Glenn!
Published Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:16:02 -0600 | Link
Josh Gulley is the recipient of the 2010 Mabel Kirkpatrick Hohenboken Teaching Enhancement Award
The Psychology Awards Committee has selected Joshua Gulley as the recipient of the Mabel Kirkpatrick Hohenboken Teaching Enhancement Award this year. The Hohenboken Award was established by Mrs. Mabel Hohenboken as a means to reward faculty members in Psychology who have made a particularly distinguished contribution as teachers. Josh has now won the Triple Crown of teaching awards in the department, having won the GSO Instructional Award for Excellence in Teaching & Advising in 2009 and the Psi Chi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007. Congratulations, Josh!
Published Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:09:10 -0600 | Link
Hua-Hua Chang elected Fellow of AERA
Hua-Hua Chang has been elected a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. Congratulations to Hua!
Published Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:44:13 -0600 | Link
Florian Lorenz receives the Robert P. Larsen Grant for Research in Career Development
Florian Lorenz, (Quant division) has also received an award from the Robert P. Larsen Grant for Research in Career Development on his proposal, "Exploring bipolarity in vocational interests: The generality and specificity of individual interests." Congratulations, Florian!!
Published Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:18:16 -0600 | Link
Louis Tay receives the Robert P. Larsen Grant for Research in Career Development
It is a pleasure to announce that Louis Tay, a graduate student in the I/O division has been selected to receive a Robert P. Larsen Grant for Research in Career Development. This award is made in recognition of the quality of his research proposal, �Demographic Differences in Vocational Interests: Measurement Bias and Mean-level Differences.� This award is presented by the Career Center. Congratulations, Louis!!
Published Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:47:43 -0600 | Link
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2009
Several Psychology Faculty and TA's are included on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellence for Fall 2009. For a complete list, see the website provided. Congratulations, to everyone!
Published Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:07:14 -0600 | Link