Monday, October 2, 3:30-5 p.m.* | Queally Center, Breed Pavilion B
Kelly Lambert, MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology, has been named one of three finalists for Baylor University’s 2024 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. This national award for exceptional teaching is the single largest monetary reward presented by a college or university.
As a Cherry Award finalist, Lambert will receive $15,000 as well as $10,000 for the University of Richmond Department of Psychology to foster the development of teaching skills. Each finalist also presents a series of lectures at Baylor during fall 2023 and a Cherry Award lecture on their home campuses. On Monday, October 2, Lambert will a lecture titled "Brain Sculpting: Stranger than fiction tales of neuroplasticity."
*Refreshments available at 3:30 p.m. Lecture begins at 4 p.m.
Opening for an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology. Review begins September 11, 2023. Learn more.
We encourage psychology majors to participate in conducting research after completing (or waiving) Psych 100. The best way to find a research experience that fits you is to check out what kinds of projects are going on. If you are interested in learning more about conducting research, contact a faculty whose projects or area appeals to you. Many faculty members are actively seeking students, and will be happy to talk to you about how you might fit in.
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Matthew Lowder, associate professor of psychology, published "Emotionality Effects in Korean Visual Word Recognition: Evidence from Lab-Based and Web-Based Lexical Decision Tasks" in Acta Psychologica.
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Kelly Lambert, MacEldin Trawick Professorship in Psychology, published "Wild brains: The Value of Neuroethological Approaches in Preclinical Behavioral Neuroscience Animal Models" in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
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Kelly Lambert, MacEldin Trawick Professorship in Psychology, is one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry National teaching award, known as one of the most competitive teaching awards in the country. Learn more.
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Laura Knouse, professor of psychology, along with Shweta Ware, assistant professor of computer science, and undergraduates published the paper "Predicting ADHD Symptoms Using Smartphone Sensing Data" in UbiComp-ISWC ’22 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Proceedings.
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Faculty will conduct a study in collaboration with students to continue to support an inclusive experience on campus.
Kelly Lambert, a professor of behavioral neuroscience, is quoted about how using our hands connects to our brains.
Psychology professor Camilla Nonterah is quoted.
Leadership studies and psychology professor Crystal Hoyt is interviewed in this podcast.
Psychology professor Janelle Peifer, a licensed clinical psychologist, is quoted.
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