Faculty Awards/Honors
The American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Early Career Psychologists has awarded Debrielle Jacques a 2026 APA Committee on Early Career Psychologists/National Register of Health Service Psychologists Convention Travel Grant. Deb was selected from an extraordinary pool of candidates based on her significant academic and professional achievements and demonstration of leadership in the field of psychology. This grant supports the professional development and attendance of early career psychologists at APA’s 2026 convention in Washington, DC where Deb will present her work titled “Intersectionality in Intergenerational Psychopathology.”
Andrew Meltzoff was selected as President-elect of Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) for the American Psychological Association (APA).
Priscilla Lui guest edited a special section on the implementation of open science in multicultural research contexts, in the journal Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Professor Emeritus Randy Kyes spoke at the annual field course in conservation biology and global health in Kathmandu.
Priscilla Lui was selected to serve as an Associate Editor for Psychological Bulletin. Psychological Bulletin is a leading journal in psychological sciences and adjacent fields, and publishes research syntheses that appeal to broad audiences. Priscilla has previously published large-scale research synthesis papers in Psychological Bulletin, including: Lui, P. P. (2015). Intergenerational cultural conflict, mental health, and educational outcomes among Asian and Latino/a Americans: Qualitative and meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 141(2), 404-446. Lui, P. P. & Quezada, L. (2019). Associations between microaggression and adjustment outcomes: A meta-analytic and narrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 145(1), 45-78.
Chantel Prat was one of the 20 UW faculty members who joined the Research Impact Advocates program. The UW Office of Research’s new program helps faculty scientists engage and inspire the public about the benefits of research.
Sapna Cheryan received a 2-year award from the Russell Sage Foundation. The Award title is “Effects of Foreignness Stereotypes on Black Communities.” Proposal abstract: Members of groups stereotyped as culturally foreign face distinct forms of racial prejudice and discrimination.
Debrielle Jacques is set to join the editorial board of the Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR; Impact Factor: 4.5). JFTR, which is published by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) is the preeminent international journal dedicated solely to theoretical, meta-theoretical, methodological, and non-empirical review papers on family science.
Debrielle Jacques received an honorable mention from the Mississippi State University’s inaugural Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP) teaching awards, for her class, Family Processes. The class was designated as an honorable mention for the Best Non-Applied Course that Serves a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program.
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Professor of Psychology and SEFS, has been awarded a Tier 1 Research Grant from the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative. The award supports a new interdisciplinary project titled “Embodied Nature Engagement: Developing the Interaction Pattern Preference Inventory (IPPI) for Nature Prescriptions in Primary Care.” Kahn is Co-PI along with Co-PI Sebastian Tong Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine (UW School of Medicine). The project brings together psychology, family medicine, and human–nature interaction research to advance how primary care providers can tailor nature prescriptions using an empirically grounded assessment of patients’ preferred modes of embodied nature engagement. Two team members are central contributors to the work: Ashley Park, MPH, Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine, and Hongfei (Fei) Li, PhD candidate in the College of the Built Environment, both of whom are helping lead measure development, study design, and qualitative/quantitative data collection. This award reflects growing interest across campus in bridging psychological science, population health, and nature-based interventions.
Faculty Publications
Andrea Stocco and his colleagues published a large (900 participant) field test of their model-based memory assessment. They were able to link memory function to kidney function by examining a large cohort of kidney donors and receivers. The paper was published in Communications Medicine (formerly, Nature Communications Medicine).
Kevin King co-authored a study published in Clinical Psychological Science evaluating how alcohol use disorder symptoms unfold in daily life.
Professor Emeritus, Randy Kyes co-authored a publication, with first author Dr. Narayan Koju, an Affiliate Assistant Professor in Psychology, that was published in PloS One.
Debrielle Jacques (first author) and a graduate student mentee at Northeastern Illinois University recently had a paper accepted in Translational Issues in Psychological Science titled “Commentary on Translational Impact: Youth and Caregiver Readiness to Engage in Psychological Treatment: The Untapped Utility of a Dynamic and Multifaceted Construct.”
Z Yan Wang and Biology student Stephanie Zhu coauthored a paper titled, “Neuroethology of Corpse Directed Behavior in Bees” in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
Nastacia Goodwin and Z Yan Wang coauthored a paper titled, “Behavioral and Molecular Underpinnings of Heat Stress in Bumblebees” in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
In the News
KING 5 interviewed Nicole McNichols about her book, “You Could Be Having Better Sex.”
The College of Arts & Sciences published an article about Nicole McNichols’ book, “You Could Be Having Better Sex.”
Professor Emeritus Susan Joslyn explains how people interpret uncertainty in a PreventionWeb article.
Delancey Wu’s collaborative research on AI-generated mental health was featured in a Harvard Business School article.
Nicole McNichols’ book, “You Should Be Having Better Sex,” was featured in a College of Arts & Sciences article.
Research led by Principal Investigator, Priscilla Lui and Kevin King was recently featured in the community-focused newsletter and online publication, Executive Diversity Services, Inc. The article, written by Alexis Martin, an intern and undergraduate student at the University of Washington, spotlights the team’s commitment to culture-centered research and the meaningful impact of community partnership and engagement. Read the article.
Nicole McNichols shared her thoughts on love languages in a New York Times article.
Gerald Rosen, clinical psychology emeritus, was quoted in an article from The Cut about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
The Daily highlighted Mary Larimer’s study on sleep and wellness in young adults.
Nicole McNichols was quoted in CNN for an article about the TV show “Heated Rivalry.”
Nicole McNichols was interviewed by NRP about legislation that would require age verification for pornography websites.
The Daily covered Nicole McNichols’ new book and interviewed her about how she became “the sex professor.”
Katherine Foster co-authored a paper that was featured in Michigan News. The study suggests the way people manage information in their minds, combined with how and when they went through puberty, can shape daily patterns of stress, anxiety and low mood well into adulthood.
Andrea Stocco was quoted in a Scienza E Ricerca article on the role of memory in PTSD.
Nicole McNichols discussed inviting an OnlyFars star to her class in her Psychology Today column.
Lucía Magis-Weinberg’s research on school phone policies was featured in GeekWire.
Andrew Meltzoff’s research on AI learning cultural values was highlighted in an article in The University Network.
Newsweek published a piece about raising an unbiased child based on a paper by Andrew Meltzoff.
Willem Weertman’s masters work was highlighted in the Friday Harbor Laboratories publication Tide Bite.
Ariel Starr shared the benefits of reading in a Women.com article.