PSY News
- Dr. Susan Sangha has been elected to a four year term on the Executive Committee of the Pavlovian Society which is dedicated to the integrative, interdisciplinary scientific study of behavior. The Society promotes both basic and applied research in learning and behavioral neuroscience.
- Dr. Susie Swithers selected as a fellow for Big Ten Academic Alliance's Academic Leadership Program
- Andy Hales has been selected as the winner of the 2017 SPSP Student Publication Award with co-authors Matt Kassner, Kip Williams and Bill Graziano. Congratulations!
- Board of Trustees approve Dr. Kip Williams as Distinguished Professor.
- Dr. Daniel Foti, a member of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience and Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, was recently awarded a $10K grant from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) to study the implicit learning deficits in adults at high genetic risk for depression. The group will be using the newest Purdue Life Sciences Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Facilities to study whether brain activity involved in implicit, procedural learning explains the increased risk for depression among adult women carrying the premutation of the fragile X mental retardation gene. Congratulations to Dr. Foti.
- Dr. Chris Agnew appointed associate vice president for research, regulatory affairs
- Dr. Chris Wiese: "If high self-control has a downside, these psychologists couldn't find it"
- Invisible Identities--a Purdue Identities Project (PIP) launched by Drew Mallory and Dr. Deborah Rupp
- Congratulations to Dr. Robert Proctor who has been named the 2017 Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professorate (AGEP) & Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program (LSAMP).
- Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hennes who is the winner of the Purdue Policy Research Institute's Excellence in Research Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. Bridgette Tonnsen who is the winner of the Most Distinguished Faculty for Research Award. In part, the award states that "this award is presented at the Favorite Faculty Reception sponsored by University Residences to a faculty member whose research has influenced a student’s passion within that field of study; your nomination by students speaks volumes about your success, and your selection by our Favorite Faculty Student Committee is a testament to the quality of the nominations. Thank you so much for your commitment to student engagement and interaction. We hope that this award can serve as a small token of appreciation and recognition of the invaluable impact for which you are clearly responsible."
- Congratulations to Ka Ng (Mentor: Dr. Susan Sangha) for being awarded one of two travel awards by the Greater Indiana Society for Neuroscience for his abstract, "Dopamine D1 receptor mediated signaling in the basolateral amygdala modulates safety-fear-reward cue discrimination". This honor includes delivering a talk at the Greater Indiana Society for Neuroscience meeting being held at IUSM on March 31.
- Purdue researchers support new criteria for mental illness categories, diagnosis
