Good News about the University of Maryland Psychology Department
April 21, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Jack Blanchard who has been promoted to Full Professor effective 23 August 2006!
April 21, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Carl Lejuez who has been selected as one of this year’s recipients of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences’ Teaching and Mentorship Award!
April 21, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Marina Bornovalova who has been selected to receive the College Park Branch of the American Association of University Women’s 2006 Masters Graduate Award!
April 7, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Carl Lejuez whose RO1 award entitled “Drug choice, Impulsivity and Risky Sexual Behavior” has been funded by NIH. This grant also includes Professor Arie Kruglanski as a Co-Investigator and consultants from Brown University, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the National Development and Research Institute (NDRI) and the Washington, D. C. Salvation Army Harbor Light Residential Substance Use Treatment Center!
April 7, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Marsha Sargeant, graduate student in Clinical Psychology whose diversity supplement has been approved for funding by NIH. Ms. Sergeant’s mentor is Professor Carl Lejuez!
April 7, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Ryan Fehr, graduate student in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, who has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF for his proposal entitled: “Culture and the Psychology of Forgiveness.” Mr. Fehr’s mentor is Professor Michele Gelfand!
April 7, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Anu Ramesh, graduate student in Industrial and Organizational Psychology who has just been notified that she won the 2006 SIOP Graduate Student Scholarship for her dissertation research. Ms. Ramesh’s mentor is Professor Michele Gelfand!
March 1, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Marsha Sargeant who won 1st place at this year’s PROMISE Research Symposium for her poster: “The Relationship Between Distress Tolerance and Antisocial Personality Disorder Among Male Inner-City Residential Treatment Seeking Substance Users.” Ms. Sargeant works in the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion research in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Drs. Carl W. Lejuez and Stacey B. Daughters. (PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate [Maryland’s AGEP] is a coalition of the three campuses of the University of Maryland dedicated to increasing the numbers and diversity of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering and mathematics [STEM] fields).
March 1, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Kelly Anne Barnes, a recent graduate of the Psychology Department’s Honors Program, on the acceptance for publication of her honors thesis research in The American Journal of Psychology (founded in 1887 by G. Stanley Hall): Barnes, K. A., & Dougherty, M. R., “The Effect of Divided Attention on Global Judgment of Learning Accuracy.” Ms. Barnes is currently a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Ms. Barnes’ honors program mentor at UMCP was Dr. Michael Dougherty.
January 11, 2006: CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Arie Kruglanski who has just been notified by NSF that his grant on a parametric unimodel of human judgment (an alternative to the prevalent dual process models) will be funded for three years!
December 13, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Andrea Chronis who has just received word that her R34 grant will be funded by NIMH as it was in the 99th%ile of grants scored that round! It is entitled: “Integrated Treatment for Depressed Mothers of Children with ADHD.” The grant covers a period of 3 years. Dr. Lejuez is a Co-Investigator on the grant.
December 13, 2005: Also, CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Chronis for recently passing both her national and state boards for psychologists!
September 27, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Paul Hanges who was elected to Fellow Status in the American Psychological Association (APA) at the August, 2005 annual meeting.
September 27, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Carl Lejuez for receiving a new RO1 grant from NIDA; receipt of a supplement to his RO1 on distress Tolerance and Smoking Cessation; and receipt of the New Researcher Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) based on the following paper – Lejuez, C. W., Paulson, A., Daughters, S. B., Bornovalova, M.A., and Zvolensky, M. J., “The Association Between Heroin Use and Anxiety Sensitivity Among Inner-City Individuals in Residential Drug Use Treatment,” in Behavior Research and Therapy.
September 8, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Jana Raver who just received the IACM Best Empirical Paper Award in Spain for her paper based on her dissertation. Professor Michele Gelfand was Dr. Raver’s mentor.
September 8, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Yamalis Diaz who has received official notice that her National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship for Minority Students entitled” Parenting and Child Behavior Problems In Latino Families,” has been funded. Professor Andrea Chronis is Ms. Diaz’ mentor.
September 8, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Clara Hill who received two awards at the recent APA Meeting: (a) Outstanding Lifetime Achievement award for decades of innovative, clinically meaningful, high quality research from the Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy of the Society for Counseling Psychology; and (b) the outstanding contributions to science and practice award from the Society for Counseling Psychology.
September 8, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Emeritus Bruce Fretz who received the first lifetime achievement award given by the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs.
September 8, 2005: CONGRATULATIONS to Chair Hall who has been re-appointed to a three year term on the advisory board of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.