The Psychology Department is pleased to announce the Undergraduate Student Awards in Psychology for the 2023-2024 academic year! Conan Kornetsky Psychology Prize and Outstanding Graduating Senior Sophia Lambert Michele Alexander Scholar Award Alexandria Morgan Douglas Glanville Research and Scholarship Fund Awards Madison Landry Caroline Mosca
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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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Funded by the National Institutes for Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Institute on Aging, the MSLS study is a multidisciplinary study relating cardiovascular risk factors and disease to cognitive function. Merrill F. Elias, Ph.D., M.P.H. is director of the MSLS, alongside and Michael A. Robbins, Ph.D. as co-director, and […]
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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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Maine Scholars Strategy Network will once again be holding their annual retreat to assess and strategize about the important work of connecting research with policy, journalism, civic organizations and broader public discourse. Co-directed by our own Dr. Jordan LaBouff, the Scholars Strategy Network is an organization that helps connect academics with policymakers so their research can […]
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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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The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) named UMaine the 2022 recipient of its Student Diversity Initiative Award, which includes $2,500 for the recruitment and retention project. Patricia Goodhines, an assistant professor of clinical psychology, and Liv Valö, a Ph.D. student who chairs the doctoral program’s graduate student Diversity Committee, are leading the effort […]
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Care for Maine’s older adults A KEY COMPONENT of the University of Maine’s contribution to research on healthy rural aging in Maine is the Cognition Aging Resiliency and Enhancement (CARE) Lab. It is directed by assistant professor of psychology Rebecca MacAulay, whose research focuses on understanding factors that increase risk and resilience to cognitive decline […]
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