Happenings
Faculty in the news
Jonathon Bricker  |
Jonathan Bricker was interviewed by KOUW's Ross Reynolds about apps for treating addictions. Here is that interview: http://kuow.org/post/apps-kick-addictions-sound-too-good-be-true |
Steve Buck  |
Steve Buck was selected as one of 18 faculty across the three UW campuses for the Teaching Technology Fellows Institute to be held in June 2014. He will develop a hybrid online/classroom version of Psych 333, Sensory and perceptual processes, that will use online resources to prepare students better for in-class discussion and activities that go beyond what has been possible with traditional lecture format. |
Jaime Diaz  |
Jaime Diaz was also selected as a Teaching Technology Fellow in the June 2014 cohort. Dr. Diaz plans to develop a hybrid version of Psychology 322, a course on the effects of drugs on behavior. Developing a hybrid course should significantly enhance the learning experience of his students, and it should make more efficient use of TA resources, |
Anthony Greenwald  |
Wondering what you'll look like when you get older? Check out this profile of Anthony Greenwald's work - http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023564592_agingsoftwarexml.html |
Cheryl Kaiser  |
Cheryl Kaiser was elected to Fellow status in the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Fellow status recognizes outstanding contributions in areas related to the application of research on the psychological aspects of important social issues to public policy solutions. |
Marsha Linehan  |
Congratulations to Professor Marsha Linehan. She is one of the 2014 James McKeen Cattell Fellows for the Association for Psychological Science. This award recognizes a lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the science of psychology. Marsha's development of dialectical behavior therapy continues to have increasingly broad impact on seemingly intractable disorders such as borderline personality disorder. She will be speaking at this year's APS Annual Convention in May. You can learn more about Marsha's award here. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/obsonline/making-mindfulness-work-for-patients.html |
Kate McLaughlin  |
NPR featured a story about Assistant Professor Kate McLaughlin's research looking at neural markers that predicted the onset of PTSD in kids and adolescents after the Boston Marathon bombings. http://nepr.net/news/2014/04/18/marathon-bombing-study-makes-link-between-brain-and-trauma/ |
Kristina Olson  |
Kristina Olson and colleagues from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania recently conducted a study that discovered how preschoolers from different countries often don't view the stealing of ideas as negative. Both UW Today and Smithsonian.com wrote articles about the study. You can read them here: UW Today - http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/03/11/no-one-likes-a-copycat-no-matter-where-you-live/ Smithsonian.com http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/copy-cats-are-universally-looked-down-upon-worlds-children-180950077/?no-ist Dr. Olson's work was also featured in Slate - http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/the_kids/2014/03/teaching_tolerance_how_white_parents_should_talk_to_their_kids_about_race.html |
Ron Smith  |
Ron Smith has been chosen by the American Psychological Association to represent APA in a series of Distinguished Scientific Contribution addresses to be given at the 2014 Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. The multidisciplinary speakers represent medical and scientific organizations from the United States and Europe. |
Jessica Sommerville  |
The UW Today featured Jessica Sommerville's research called "Babies prefer fairness - but only if it benefits them - in choosing a playmate." You can read that article here: http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/04/14/babies-prefer-fairness-but-only-if-it-benefits-them-in-choosing-a-playmate/The APA Monitor featured an article on Jessica Sommerville's research titled Not-so-blank states: What do infants understand about the social world? More than you think. You can read that article here http://www.apamonitor-digital.org/apamonitor/201404?folio=32# |
Wendy Stone  |
Wendy Stone's research on autism was in the news several times in the last 6 months. Articles appeared the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative twice. The first article, Streamlined Autism Screen Speeds up Diagnosis can be read here https://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/streamlined-autism-screen-speeds-up-diagnosis. The second, Repetitive Behavior in Toddlers May Signal Autism , is available here - http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/repetitive-behavior-in-toddlers-signals-autism?utm_source=Autism+research+news+from+SFARI.org&utm_campaign=e59d0c0d7b-SFARI_Newsletter_140325&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0a60ccb345-e59d0c0d7b-381155578 Closer to home, The Daily wrote an article about Wendy Stone and her research on autism titled Making Contact. You can read the article here: http://dailyuw.com/archive/2014/02/05/science/making-contact#.UyjSsKy66yI. King 5.com Children's Healthlink ran a piece about Wendy Stone's research on autism. You can watch the show here: http://www.king5.com/health/childrens-healthlink/UW-researchers-closer-to-understanding-autism-240210271.html Finally, Wendy Stone, as well as Professors Paul Yoder and Zachary Warren of Vanderbilt University, received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study communication interventions for younger siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. You can read more about this here: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/03/autism-nih-grant/?utm_source=myvupreview&utm_medium=myvu_email&utm_campaign=myvupreview-2014-03-19 |
2014 Edwards Lectures now available online
In February and March of this year, the Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture Series drew thousands of UW community members out to Kane Hall for lectures which examined the Science of Decision Making. Lectures by all six speakers were recorded by UWTV and are now available for viewing online.
Save the Dates for the 2015 lectures – February 18, February 25 and March 4.
Click on the links below to watch each lecture.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The Neuroscience of Good Decision Making – with Chantel Prat
The Neuroscience of Good Decision Making - with Randall O’Reilly
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
How the Brain Makes Decisions Under Uncertainty – with Jeansok Kim
How the Brain Makes Decisions Under Uncertainty – with John O’Doherty
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
1st Annual Psychology Graduation Barbeque
We had a beautiful day for our first graduation barbeque celebration. It was great to see so many familiar faces before they head off to their post-graduation lives! Congratulations to this year's graduating class! As we send them out into the world with full stomachs, we hope they'll stay in touch! We hope you will too. Join our new LinkedIn Group and keep an eye out for alumni events in the fall.
