January 13, 2025
Laura Fenton was awarded the International Neuropsychological Society Graduate Student research award! She will receive the award in person at the awards ceremony on Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm at INS for her abstract on Associations Between Brain Morphology, Cognitive Function, and Financial Exploitation Vulnerability in Older Adults. Congratulations Laura!
August 1, 2024
Please join us in congratulating Anthony Vaccaro on receiving the Society of Affective Science (SAS) Best Dissertation Award for 2024. Anthony is currently a post doc in Darby Saxbe’s lab, but he did his graduate work in Jonas Kaplan’s lab. The SAS committee received numerous exceptional nominations for the Award, but they were unanimous in selecting Anthony for this Award.
April 30, 2024
Congratulations to Anthony Vaccaro. He is Darby Saxbe’s post-doc, and a former graduate student in our Department who did his graduate studies at the BCI (Antonio Damasio and Jonas Kaplan were his mentors). Anthony published a really interesting Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times about social media use and the brain, which also makes some more general points about the use of neuroscience in the media. It is not easy to get published in LA Times! So big congratulation to Anthony on this great accomplishment!
March 10, 2024
Please join us in congratulating the students below on receiving the Excellence in Scientific Writing 2024 from the Department of Psychology. Each area chooses one student from any year who has excelled in writing (a paper for publication, a conference presentation/poster, 2nd year project, dissertation, etc.), in the past year. Each student was awarded a $100 prize.
Developmental Psychology: Wani Qiu
Brain and Cognitive Science: Sarah Hennessy
Social Psychology: Kevin Choi
Clinical Science: Morgan Lynch
Quantitative Methods & Computational Psychology: Meltem Ozcan
PhD student Jenna Blyler won Second prize for her poster at the Society for Risk Analysis
December 11, 2024
PhD student Jenna Blyler won second prize for her poster at the Society for Risk Analysis! Her co-authors are Aitor Marcos, Leah Tieger, Richard John, and Joe Arvai. The poster is called “Toxic soups and silver spoons: How health and wealth predict risk perceptions near a radioactive superfund site”
Congrats to Jenna and her co-author team!
February 24, 2024
Congratulations to Ian Anderson for receiving the USC Dornsife’s 2023 Communicator of the Year Award. This award honors scholars who contribute significant time and effort to meaningfully improve the public’s understanding of issues, influence policy, and/or raise the level of public discourse around research and scholarship conducted at Dornsife.
May 24, 2023
Congratulations to Laura Fenton for receiving the Gold Family Fellowship Award in the amount of $5,000. This is awarded to a limited number of PhD candidates for research related to their dissertation. Gold Family Fellows are chosen on the basis of extraordinary academic promise.
APA Dissertation Research Award for 2023
December 24, 2023
Congratulations to Katie Galbraith on receiving the APA Dissertation Research Award for 2023. This is a prestigious award that Katie received in recognition of her promising contribution to psychological science. Katie is from the Clinical Area, and she worked with Stan Huey.
SPSP Student Publication Award
October 24, 2022
Asaf Mazar won the best student led paper in 2022 SPSP Student Publication Award for his paper: The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence.
