News

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Brian Nosek elected as a Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Sierra Eisen won her second APA dissertation award!
Caroline Kelsey
Monday, October 29, 2018

A new study by graduate student Caroline Kelsey and Profs. Vaish & Grossmann
Friday, September 21, 2018

Coan, Meliza, Sederberg, Teachman and Tong each received 3 Cavalier Research Funds.
Monday, September 17, 2018

Brian Nosek is awarded a 2018 Golden Goose Award!  
Lillard
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

$3.3 million 5-year grant awarded to Angeline Lillard to study Montessori education
Bethany Teachman
Friday, August 31, 2018

Bethany Teachman is profiled at A&S magazine Fall 2018.

Monday, August 27, 2018

Sierra Eisen was awarded the American Psychological Association Division 15 Dissertation Research Grants Award.
Monday, August 27, 2018

Katie Krol was awarded a Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hartwell Foundation to continue her work with Jessica Connelly.
Rachel Keen
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Rachel Keen wins Distinguished Contribution Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies
Autistic children learn sitting on carpet in a classroom
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Vikram Jaswal’s oped piece challenging dogmas about autistic people’s social interactions is on New York Times!
Monday, July 2, 2018

Joe Allen is the recipient of a NIH-MERIT award! This is a highly prestigious award provided only to the most outstanding scientists supported by the Institute, and it doubles the duration of the original funding.
Friday, June 22, 2018

Toby Grossmann has been elected a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science! Congratulations, Toby.
Friday, June 22, 2018

Katie Krol’s application was selected as the Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellowship program. This is an exceptionally prestigious national award, which UVA endorses only one fellow each year. Big congratulations go to Katie and her mentor, Jess Connelly!
Noelle Hurd
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Noelle Hurd to be appointed as the Scully Family Discovery Associate Professor in Psychology.

Illustration of girl reading a book with a train on the ocver and ideas in illustrated in her mind
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Dan Willingham had an op-ed in the New York Times titled "How to Get Your Mind to Read". The full article can be found at the url below.
Rachel Farr
Monday, April 23, 2018

Rachel Farr, who received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from UVA’s Psychology Department in 2011, has been named to the highly competitive WT Grant Young Scholars program for 2018.
Monday, April 23, 2018

Caroline Kelsey awarded $25,000 for the 2017-2018 Dannon Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Dan Willingham was on a panel discussing the 2017 scores of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ("the Nation's Report Card") upon their release at the National Press Club on April 10th.
Double Hoo Award
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Meltem Yucel & Maddi Mitchell, Cat Thrasher & Demitra Chavez, Caroline Kelsey & Kate Haynes, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange & Alexandra Levin for renewing their Double Hoo awards!

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Jessica Taggart who won an All-University Graduate Teaching Award!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Remy Furrer & Jenny Lim who were awarded the Double Hoo research grant this year!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Anup Gampa, Audrey Wittrup, Andrea Negrette, and Jamie Albright who were inducted into the Raven Society!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Anup Gampa who won the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award for Social Sciences.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Jessica Taggart's play research was the cover story of Science News last week (in an article that also featured UVa grads Patricia Ganea and Matt Lerner) and also has just come out in The Science Breaker.
Dr. Angeline Lillard
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

NBC29 News recently did a short story on Dr. Angeline Lillard’s Hartford study on Montessori education. See url below.
Monday, February 19, 2018

Kathleen Kroll won the New Horizon's Travel Grant, an international travel grant for postdocs seeking to pursue new areas of research. She will be pursuing her interest in data visualization through graphic design coursework.
Three children playing in the woods
Friday, February 9, 2018

Angeline Lillard’s work on pretend play recently got highlighted on ScienceNews.
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Congratulations to Amrisha Vaish, who received the 2018 Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from APS.
Monday, January 22, 2018

Lillard, A. S., Heise, M. J. R., Eve M., Tong, X., Hart, A., & Bray, P. M. (2017). Montessori preschool elevates and equalizes child outcomes: A longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01783
Monday, January 22, 2018

Dan Meliza, Chris Deppmann, and Mark Beenhakker received a Transformative Neuroscience Pilot Grant from the UVA Brain Institute to investigate "A novel model for dyslexia and other language-processing disorders"
Amrisha Vaish
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Amrisha Vaish receives a 2018 Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science! Congratulations Amrisha!
Yellow cylindrical blocks organized by height
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Angeline Lillard’s recent conversation with The Hechinger Report. This column appears in the US News and World Report as well.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Angeline Lillard -- "Are Montessori Schools a Better Approach for Teaching Low-Income Children?"
Education
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Angel Lillard's current research receives media coverage
Steve Boker
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Steve Boker’s Explore to Build proposal titled “Institute for Healthy Development” is selected as one of three such provost initiatives this year!
Monday, December 11, 2017

Cynthia Tong's and Jianhui Zhou's (Dept. of Statistics) proposal, "Robust and Interpretable Quantile Growth Curve Modeling in Social Sciences" was funded by a College of Arts and Sciences Quantitative Collaborative (QC) Seed Grant.
How to Get Your Mind to Read
Monday, December 4, 2017

Dan Willingham had an op-ed in the New York Times titled "How to Get Your Mind to Read". The full article can be found at the url below.
Monday, November 13, 2017

Miranda Beltzer, Jason Sumontha, and Alexandra Werntz were initiated into the prestigious Raven Society.
Monday, November 13, 2017

Jessica Mazen won first place in the Diversifying Scholarship poster session, and Diane-Jo Bart-Plange won second place in the Diversifying Scholarship oral presentation category.
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Charlie Ebersole has been awarded one of eight 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes in Emerging Researchers category for Open Social Science!

Monday, October 2, 2017

Congratulations to Meltem Yucel for her election to the board of the Cognitive Development Society (CDS) as a student representative!
Monday, September 25, 2017

Congratulations to Meghan Puglia who has been awarded an APF/COGDOP Research award!
Monday, September 25, 2017

Congratulations to Diane-Jo Bart-Plange who received a 2017 Clara Mayo Award from the Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues!
Put Aside Those Toys
Thursday, August 31, 2017

UVAToday features recent research from Lillard Lab
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Xiaorong Liu's research is featured at Neuronline.
Diana Dinescu
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Diana Dinescu received the International Studies Office Award for Academic Excellence by a Graduate Student as well as a Travel Award from the Behavior Genetics Association.
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diversifying Psychology Visit Day at University of Virginia
Monday, April 24, 2017

Jess Kansky received a Jefferson Fellowship.
Monday, April 24, 2017

Meret Hofer and Lucy Guarnera each received a Doris Buffett Fellowship to support applied work related to the topic of children and families in need.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Emily Loeb won the All-University Graduate Teaching Award
Karl Fua
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Karl Fua won the American Psychological Foundation's 2017 Randy F. Gerson Memorial Grant.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Shaina Rowell won the All-University Graduate Teaching Award.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Several pairs from the department were awarded the Double Hoo Research Grant. They are: N. Meltem Yucel & Maddi Mittchel, Cat Thrasher & Demitra Chavez, Caroline Kelsey & Kate Haynes, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange & Alexandra Levin.
Vikram Jaswal
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Vikram Jaswal’s year long autism seminar releases a new video documenting the collaboration between the class and the Tribe, a group of non-speaking autistics in Northern Virginia
Monday, March 27, 2017

Psychology once again did very well at the Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition! Oral Presentations - Beltzer (1st), Taggart (2nd). Poster Presentations - Kansky and Werntz (1st), Rowell and Maresh (2nd).
Sierra Eisen
Monday, March 27, 2017

Sierra Eisen won the APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award for her predissertation.

American Psychology-Law Society
Monday, March 27, 2017

Lucy Guarnera and Dick Reppucci were awarded a grant from the American Psychology-Law Society.

Meghan Puglia
Monday, March 20, 2017

Meghan Puglia received one of the American Psychological Foundation's 2017 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Graduate Student Fellowships.
Monday, March 20, 2017

Cat Thrasher received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Congratulations to Meghan Puglia on winning a 2017 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Psychological Association!
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Department of Psychology at UVa has been ranked in the top 20 in the latest US News and World Report rankings.
Virginia Education Science Training (VEST)
Monday, March 13, 2017

Victoria Mauer and Sierra Eisen received Virginia Education Science Training (VEST) predoctoral fellowships. Congratulations, Victoria and Sierra!
The Economist
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Tim Salthouse's research featured in The Economist.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Dan Willingham appointed by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Congrats to Becca Weast, Liz Gilbert, Saida Hussain, Bommae Kim, and Kelly Hoffman for successfully defending their dissertations!
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Sarah Thomas won the Benjamin D. Wright Innovations in Measurement Award at the 2016 International Objective Measurement Workshop
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Andrea Negrete receives the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and Margot Bjoring receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Villanova University
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 to Thursday, November 1, 2018

Laura Getz has accepted a Mendel Science Experience Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Villanova University
Daniel Willingham
Thursday, April 14, 2016

DAN WILLINGHAM WAS NAME-CHECKED IN A SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE US SECRETARY OF EDUCATIO ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION