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Kim Badanich receives a 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
Dr. Kim Badanich has received a 2024 USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award. Kim is a Professor of Instruction on the Sarasota-Manatee campus and an alumna of the CNS program.
December 19, 2024Accomplishments, Faculty News
Seven Psychology majors named King O'Neal Scholars at Fall Commencement
Seven Psychology undergraduates were honored as King O’Neal Scholars at USF’s Friday, December 13, 2024, commencement ceremony.
December 16, 2024Accomplishments
52 Undergraduate and Graduate Students Inducted into Psi Chi at Fall Ceremony
Congratulations to the 52 undergraduate and graduate students inducted into Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, on Friday, November 22. They come from all three campuses of USF. Faculty advisors are Sandra Schneider (Tampa), Kemesha Gabbidon (St. Petersburg), and Valentina Iturriaga (Sarasota-Manatee).
November 24, 2024Accomplishments
CAS sweeps Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor and Outstanding Thesis & Dissertation awards
Psychology Ph.D. graduate student, Alexandria Choate, received an Outstanding Thesis & Dissertation Award. Her dissertation aims to advance the understanding of borderline personality disorder (BPD) by leveraging mathematical, formal models to better understand its development across the lifespan.
November 20, 2024Accomplishments
USF St. Petersburg Psychology Professor Tiffany Chenneville has been working with the National Science Foundation's scientific integrity team in Washington, D.C.
October 22, 2024Faculty News, Research
Dr. Judith Bryant, chair of the Department of Psychology, joined other USF colleagues on WUSF’s °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ Matters for a discussion of the life-changing impacts of Hurricane Milton.
October 11, 2024Faculty News
23 CAS alumni shine at this year’s Fast 56 Awards Ceremony
USF’s Fast 56 celebrates the entrepreneurial success of alumni and creates a platform to share insights with the next generation of leaders. This year, 3 of the 56 honorees were alumni from the Psychology Department, College of Arts and Sciences.
September 20, 2024Alumni News
Twenty-seven faculty members recognized with Outstanding Research Achievement Awards
For distinguished contributions to the field of coparenting theory, research, and clinical intervention, and leadership of a multi-national International Coparenting Collaborative revisioning global approaches to infant-family mental health diagnostic case conceptualizations, Dr. James McHale, Professor of Psychology, is being recognized next month with Outstanding Research Achievement Awards.
September 16, 2024Accomplishments, Faculty News, Research
The article highlights groundbreaking research at the °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ (USF) called the PACT Research Study (Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training), aimed at preventing cognitive decline through brain exercises. Dr. Jennifer O’Brien, an Associate Professor, is leading the research at USF.
September 10, 2024Faculty News, Research
Clinical psychology doctoral student Kendall Smith earns NSF fellowship
Doctoral student Kendall Smith’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship will provide her with a $37,000 stipend to devote time to her research of the criminal legal system, externalizing behaviors, and bias among system-involved populations.
August 29, 2024Accomplishments
The Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training study examines whether computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease.
August 21, 2024Research
Mindfulness and managing emotions lead to better sleep
A °®ÎÛ´«Ã½-led study helps explain why focusing on the present moment can improve sleep, reduce stress and improve overall health.
June 24, 2024Research