The Psychology Department is pleased to announce that Kathryn Roderick is the inaugural Kentand Billie Anger Graduate Student Research Fund award recipient. This fund was establishedwith a gift in 2023 from Kent and Billie Anger. Kent earned his doctorate in experimentalpsychology in 1974 from the University of Maine. Kathryn Roderick is a 4th year PhD Candidate […]
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Congratulations to Krutika Rathod (Clinical Area) for receiving the 2023 Harry and Miriam Levinson Scholarship from the American Psychological Foundation (APF)/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship program, as well as the Junior Scientist Fellowship from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) and Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology. These awards recognize outstanding trainees to help them begin successful research […]
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Clinical psychology Ph.D. students, Morgan Tallman and Krutika Rathod, were two among the nine graduate students awarded the University of Maine Institute of Medicine 2023 summer fellowship to support their research. The fellowship includes up to a $6,000 stipend and graduate credit to facilitate student research alongside a faculty advisor. Krutika Rathod, advised by Patricia […]
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The National Science Foundation award is a significant national accomplishment and graduate student Curtis Wojcik has developed a highly innovative research program as part of this award. The planned project includes two studies aimed at exploring anhedonia—a prevalent symptom seen across several psychiatric disorders that involves a loss of pleasure and disinterest in typically rewarding […]
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Graduate student, Raegan V. Harrington, M.A., was awarded a 2022-2023 Spring Graduate Research Grant from Psi Chi, an international honor society in psychology. The grant will support direct costs of her dissertation project, Show Me You Care: Adolescent Empathy and Friendship, which is mentored by Dr. Schwartz-Mette in the Peer Relations Lab. The project will help […]
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Congratulations to undergraduate student and first author, Zoe Prat, and the team of graduate and undergraduate students in the CARE Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca MacAulay), for their poster “No More Excu-SES: It’s Time to Address Class and Cognitive Function” presented at the UMaine symposium.
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Congratulations to Angel Boeve in the CARE Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca MacAulay), for her poster presentation “Investigating The Mechanisms Linking Regular Sleep Patterns With Daytime Physical Activity In Older Adults” at the UMaine symposium.
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Graduate student, Amy Halpin, was awarded the UMSS22 Best Graduate Presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities for her poster presentation entitled: Now or Later? Decision-Making Preferences in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Congratulations Amy and the team of graduate and undergraduate students in the CARE Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca MacAulay) who worked on this project!
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Congratulations to Michelle Stage, who was awarded a NASA/Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for summer 2022 for “Going Where No Person has Gone Before: Supporting Diverse Identities and Perspectives in Aspiring NASA Students”. Michelle states “There is a gap in the literature exploring marginalized students’ perspectives pursuing planetary sciences. In order to support NASA’s commitment […]
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“From theory to trials to community implementation and global dissemination” by John Pachankis, Ph.D. Register HERE for the 2022 Stanley Sue Lecture Series
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