About
The Department of Psychology currently has 24 full-time faculty members whose teaching and research interests provide both undergraduate and graduate students with a broad array of opportunities for coursework as well as research. Our department is known for its warm, friendly atmosphere and its emphasis on collaborative cutting-edge science.
For undergraduates, we offer a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, a concentration in psychology for students in teacher education, or a minor in psychology. Graduate degrees include a terminal Master of Arts in general experimental psychology, a Doctor of Philosophy in experimental psychology, typically with a focus in the broadly-defined areas of cognitive, developmental, or social psychology, and a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology, with an emphasis on both clinical training and research.
Our department also provides the community with valuable clinical services through the Psychology Clinic and the AD/HD Clinic.
Please explore the information about our department that is offered on our website and contact us if you would like additional information about any aspect of the UNCG Psychology Department.
Events
Spring 2012 Kendon Smith Lecture Series: March 22-23. Understanding Depression and Anxiety: Biopsychosocial Factors in Emotional Reactivity and Implications for Prevention and Treatment
[Note: Parking will be in the Oakland Avenue parking deck]
Colloquium, hosted by Psi Chi: April 16, 4:00 pm. Ronald Oppenheim, Director, Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Enviromental Compexity and Brain Plasticity in Mice"
Colloquium: Feb 24th 3:15-4:445 in Sullivan 200. Dr. Enrique Neblett from the Department of Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill will be presenting on "Racial Protective Factors and Mood and Physiological Responses to Discrimination."
Kendon Smith Lectures [Archive]
Hard Data Cafe (Cognitive): Spring, 2012
Department Social [Fall '11]: [Photos]
News
Arthur Anastopoulos's recently funded ADHD study of college students has been featured in stories by WFMY News, and the Greensboro News & Record.
Lili Sahakyan's research on directed forgetting was featured in an article in the French science magazine Le Monde De L'Intelligence under the engaging title "L'oubli volontaire: c'est possible!"
Jackie White is retiring (after FORTY years at UNG). Dr White was awarded a prestigious Catherine Acuff Congressional Fellowship by APA, and will be spending the next year in Washington, D.C.
Diana David, an undergraduate student at Gonzaga University, was the recipient of a Psi Chi Summer Research Award, and used the award to work at UNCG with Stuart Marcovitch. Ms. David's report of her experiences working in Dr. Marcovitch's lab was published in the January, 2012 SRCD Newsletter.
We are pleased, and proud, that once again, 100% of our clinical students matched for predoctoral internship training. They will represent UNCG well at their placements, which are: Jessica Benson -Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology, Jennifer Mackler- Arkansas Behavioral Health Services Center, Holly Miskey, Molly Walsh- Durham VA, Dusty Robertson- University of Rochester
Grant Announcement: Arthur Anastopoulos, National Institutes of Health, "Longitudinal Outcome of College Students with ADHD".
Graduate student Meagan Tucker has been awarded the 2012 UNCG Outstanding Master's Thesis award. Congratulation Meagan!
Graduate students Alex Thibeault, Anjali Gowda, and Arianna Hoet won the Institute for Emerging Issues Prize for Innovation. Susan Keane served as their faculty mentor, and their project focuses on increasing North Carolina’s high school graduation rate.
George Michel was interviewed by Fox 8 TV about his work on handedness. Watch the news segment here.
Graduate student Alex Thibeault has been selected as a recipient of a 2011-12 Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant for his work with Julie Mendez on “Psychological Well-Being and Adjustment in Recently Arriving Immigrant Adolescents”
Paul Silvia was a live on-air guest on John Schaefer's show "Soundcheck," produced by WNYC in New York. The show was devoted to scientific research on why people get chills and goosebumps from music.
Molly Walsh is one of only 13 recipients of an APF/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship
Jackie White attends reception with Vice President Biden to mark the 17th anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women act.
Grant Announcement: Arthur Anastopoulos. College STAR project (to develop and implement campus-based Student Support and Faculty Development services for first year college students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder).
Grant Announcement: Kane, Kwapil, & Silvia: Executive Control and Schizotypy in the Laboratory and Daily Life
Graduate student awards, conference presentations, and publications: 2010-2011.
Jackie White selected as the 2011 recipient of the Award for Outstanding Service to the APA Division 35 Society for the Psychology of Women
Clinical Training Grant: The clinical area has (again) received funding through the APA Graduate Psychology Education Program for training focusing on providing services to traditionally underserved populations.
Paul Silvia's research on "cantankerous creativity" has been widely covered in the media: MSNBC, Miller-McCune, Business Insider and he has been interviewed on "Soundcheck," on NPR-affiliate WNYC and on "Word of Mouth," on NHPR (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Psychology students win UNCG Student Excellence Awards: Jennifer McVay, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Molly Armistead Walsh, Outstanding Thesis Award, Sabrina Epps, First place, Behavioral, Economic, Education and Social Sciences Undergradaute Research Award, Amy Albright, Second place, Behavioral, Economic, Education and Social Sciences Undergradaute Research Award
Research Grant: Jackie White. Project PREVENT: Preventing Violence against Women and Children by Engaging Information Technology. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Research Grant: George Michel. The development of Infant Handedness. National Science Foundation.
George Michel elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
George Michel has been selected as one of twenty international participants in an NSF supported meeting on "Exploring the Concept of Homology in Developmental Psychology" taking place at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Research Grant: Kari Eddington, Paul Silvia, Tom Kwapil. Assessing Change in Short-Term Therapy for Depression Using ESM. NIMH
Research Grant: Kari Eddington, Julie Mendez. Group Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression. Group Psychotherapy Foundation
Faculty Editorships/Editorial Board Memberships: 2011/12
100% Clinical Internship Match Rate
Psychology Undergrad "Beyond the Classroom" accomplishments: 2010/11
Dr. White receives the prestigious Distinguished Leader for Women in Psychology award from APA
Delaney/Sahakyan research on daydreaming featured in Science Daily
Katherine Rawson wins the UNCG 2011 Young Alumnus Award
Delaney part of research team examining learning strategies with the blind.
