Your support promotes access to unique experiences for UR psychology students. This year, these opportunities included travel to professional conferences for students early in their college career and opportunities for intercultural exchange with visiting psychology students from abroad.
In the next few years, the department is also looking to expand access to internship opportunities within psychology, and your gifts may be used to support that goal as well.
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.
Why are we — as individuals and as a society — so bad at slowing down to rest? Psychologist Janelle Peifer, assistant professor of psychology, shares ways to find relief from the pressures of everyday life and today’s hustle culture. In this talk, Peifer offers three simple steps to make restorative rest a form of healing.
Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, along with Yixuan Zhai, ’26, published “Face2Cam: A user-to-webcam distance estimation image dataset” in the Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (Volume 3).
Kitty Hartvigsen, Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience and MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology, and Olivia Harding, psychology manager of labs, along with Megan Hooper, '23, Evelyn Barringer, '24, Isabel DiLandro, '25, Aditya Narayanan, '25, Brendan Crockett, '23, Yulia Shatalov, '25, Isabella Tome, '25, Paean Luby, '25, and Braden Wixted, '25, published "A rodent model of enhanced anticipation of positive events: sex-specific modifications in cognitive bias and emotional resilience" in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience and MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology, Jonathan Richardson, associate professor of biology, Kitty Hartvigsen, Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Olivia Harding, psychology manager of labs, and Jacy Jacob, adjunct lecturer of psychology and former Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, along with Ava Wagner, '24, Isabel DiLandro, '25, Andres Mauco, '26, Paean Luby, '25, and Aditya Narayanan, '25, published “Comparative neurobiology of vigilance and stress adaptation systems in wild and laboratory rodents (Rattus norvegicus)” in Frontiers in Ethology.
Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience and MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology, narrates a new series available on Audible Originals — “Sculpting Healthy Brains with Everyday Activities.”
University of Richmond students presented their leadership and psychology research at the 2026 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention in Chicago.
Richmond is among the top 25 institutions in the small colleges category supporting Gilman Scholars. Since the program started in 2001, 118 University of Richmond students have been offered Gilman Scholarships.
Psychology professor Laura Knouse authored this piece.
Behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is quoted.
Psychology professor Adam Stanaland co-authored this piece.
Cognitive psychology professor Arryn Robbins co-authored this piece.
Mailing address:
Department of Psychology
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University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8123
Fax: (804) 287-1905
Chair: Dr. Cindy Bukach
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Olivia Wilkinson