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We are pleased to announce that two of our doctoral students have recently been awarded fellowships to support their research. Aubrey Rodriguez received a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA award (F31) for her project titled: "Parental Military Deployment and Adolescent Mental/Behavioral Health". Bruna Martin received an NSF graduate fellowship for her project titled: Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation in Older Adults. Congratulations!
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| Aubrey Rodriguez | Bruna Martin |
The psychology department is pleased that Dr. Henrike Moll will be joining the department in January, 2012 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Moll studies the development of social cognition in infancy and early childhood. The main focus of her work concerns the ability to engage in joint attention and how children come to learn about their own and others’ spatial and cognitive perspectives.
Thomas Denson, a USC social psychology alumnus who is now on the faculty at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology and a member of the scientific staff of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC, are 2 of the 18 Rising Stars profiled by the Association for Psychological Science in the May/June issue of the Observer.
Doctoral student Esti Iturralde has been awarded an NRSA individual predoctoral fellowship from NIH. She becomes the sixth current student holding a prestigious external fellowship. She joins Lauren Spies who was awarded an NRSA individual predoctoral fellowship from NIH, Larissa Borofsky who was awarded an NSF fellowship, Lina D'Orazio who was awarded an APA Minority Fellowship, and Carlos Rodriguez and Kelly Young-Wolff who have NRSA individual predoctoral fellowships from NIH.
Sharon Niv (third year doctoral student) was selected for Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program 2010 in Silicon Valley.
Jason Goldman (fourth year doctoral student) was invited to serve a term as Psychology and Neuroscience Editor for ResearchBlogging.org . He was recognized because of his work on his personal blog scienceblogs.com/thoughtfulanimal.
Dr. Antonio Damasio, Professor of Psychology and David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, will become the 31st laureate of the Honda prize, one of the most important international awards for scientific achievement.
Dr. Richard F. Thompson is the recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. This award recognizes a distinguished career and enduring contribution to advancing psychological science.
Charisee Corsbie-Massay (fifth year doctoral student and Graduate Student in Residence for Diversity Outreach at USC Graduate School) had a paper selected by the NSF for presentation at The 5th Annual Alliance for Graduate Education & the Professoriate Conference in Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (AGEP_SBES) at the University of Texas in Austin, in April, 2010.
Dr.Mary Helen Immordino Yang (Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology), psychology graduate student Andrea McColl, Hanna Damasio (Professor of Psychology and Neurology), and Antonio Damasio (Professor of Psychology and Neurology) had their article "Neural correlates of admiration and compassion" selected by the PNAS Editorial Board to receive a Cozzarelli Prize as an exceptional paper published in 2009. Professor Antonio Damasio has been invited to receive the award certificate at a National Academy of Sciences Awards Ceremony program in April, 2010.
Dr.Zhong-Lin Lu has been invited to become an Associate Editor for Psychological Review, starting in January 2010. He will be covering submissions related to perception, attention, and neuroscience for the journal.
Zhong-lin Lu: Best Visual Illusion of the Year. Zhong-lin Lu was a member of the winning team in the 2009 Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest. See The Break of the Curveball.
Dr.Antonio Damasio: Self Comes to Mind. On Sunday, May 3, 2009, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, accompanied by two percussionists, performed the world premiere of Self Comes to Mind at the American Museum of Natural History. As the piece was performed on stage, the screen filled with brain images from Hannah Damasio's lab.
