March 2022:
Al-Shawaf - 2022 Students’ Choice for Educator of the Year Award
Al-Shawaf - 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
Coolidge - Has COVID-19 Changed Our Dreams?
February 2022:
Tom Pyszczynski receives 2022 Distinguished Career Contribution Award from the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology
Daniels - Olympic athletes like Chloe Kim and Erin Jackson can change how girls see their bodies
January 2022:
Resources to support student inclusion at UCCS
Smith - Still avoiding life admin? How to motivate yourself to do even the dullest of tasks
Daniels - Sports Illustrated Wants Its New Swimsuit Issue To Empower Women, But Will It Succeed?
Feliciano - Why older adults are more resilient in the face of pandemic
October 2021:
Bob Durham Award Fund in Psychology - To provide awards for outstanding undergraduate students enrolled in the Psychology Department in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at UCCS. If $25,000 is reached, the fund will convert to an endowment.
Dr. Kadija Williams Scholarship Fund - To provide graduate student scholarship awards, which may include research-related expenses, for graduate students enrolled in the Psychology Department at UCCS. If $25,000 is reached, the fund will convert to an endowment.
September 2021:
Student Research Showcase: Naila Tagoilelagi
August 2021:
Welcome to new Assistant Professor of Trauma Psychology, Steve Bistricky
July 2021:
Al-Shawaf - Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Welcome to new Assistant Professor of Trauma Psychology, Colin Mahoney
Faculty Feature: Heather Littleton
June 2021:
APA - The growing demand for geropsychologists
Congrats to Dr. Jessi Smith (PI) and Dr. Beth Daniels (Co-PI) for their recent funded grant from NSF. Project Title: Adaptation: Project CREST - Changing Research Experiences, Structures, and (in)Tolerance through the Adaptation of Promising Equity Practices.
Dr. Sheri Gibson - Helping patients coping with COVID19 grief
Funded Awards:
Michele Okun, Leilani Feliciano - Insomnia Phenotypes and their Impact on Maternal and Infant Health. National Institutes of Health
Publications:
Swanson, Chelsea L., Lori E. James, and Rebecca E. Ingram. "Incidental learning of proper names and “earwitness” recall." Memory (2021): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1925301
Christodoulou, Joan, and Andrew Lac. "Examining the Communication of Gender Roles to Parents: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Online Birth Congratulations Cards." Psychology & Sexuality (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2021.1902378
Carroll, Judith E., Kharah M. Ross, Steve Horvath, Michele Okun, Calvin Hobel, Kelly E. Rentscher, Mary Coussons-Read, and Christine Dunkel Schetter. "Postpartum sleep loss and accelerated epigenetic aging." Sleep health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.02.002
Overmann, Karenleigh Anne. "A Cognitive Archaeology of Writing: Concepts, Models, Goals." In The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices, eds. P.J. Boyes, P.M. Steele, N.E. Astoreca, 55-72. Oxford: Oxbow, 2021.
Brimbal, Laure, Christian A. Meissner, Steven M. Kleinman, Erik L. Phillips, Dominick J. Atkinson, Rachel E. Dianiska, Jesse N. Rothweiler, Simon Oleszkiewicz, and Matthew S. Jones. "Evaluating the benefits of a rapport-based approach to investigative interviews: A training study with law enforcement investigators." Law and Human Behavior 45, no. 1 (2021): 55. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/lhb0000437
Roberts, Jennifer R., and Molly Maxfield. “A 2-Study Psychometric Evaluation of the Modified Dementia Worry Scale.” American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias, (January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317521995322.
Leckey, Sarah, Diana Selmeczy, Alireza Kazemi, Elliott G. Johnson, Emily Hembacher, and Simona Ghetti. "Response latencies and eye gaze provide insight on how toddlers gather evidence under uncertainty." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 9 (2020): 928-936. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0913-y
Porter, Tenelle, Karina Schumann, Diana Selmeczy, and Kali Trzesniewski. "Intellectual humility predicts mastery behaviors when learning." Learning and Individual Differences 80 (2020): 101888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101888
May 2021:
NPR: Daniels speaks on female athletes’ stand against sexualization
April 2021:
Daniels & Selmeczy - 2021 CRCW Awardees
UCCS Graduate School programs in latest U.S. News & World Report Rankings
#120 in the nation for best graduate Clinical Psychology program
#148 in the nation for best graduate Psychology program
JOB OPENING: Assistant Professor - Clinical Psychology - Trauma
Remembering Bob Durham
March 2021:
UCCS Aging Center receives $160,000 to care for vulnerable older adults
In Memory: Robert Durham
December 2020:
FALL 2020 Commencement: https://commencement.uccs.edu/fall-ceremony
Congratulations to our 2020 UCCS campus award winners: Campus Legacy Builder: Dr. Frederick Coolidge & Faculty Assembly Service Award: Dr. Elizabeth Daniels
UCCS Aging Center receives NextFifty Initiative grant to advance independence for at-risk seniors
November 2020:
Samuelson named to the UCCS Million Dollar Club
Pyszczynski named 2020 Outstanding Research Mentor
UCCS program to help people cope with pandemic-related stress spreads to 37 states.
October 2020:
Distinguished Professor Tom Pyszczynski to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association
Psychology graduate students (Adams, Catarino, Lockett) to present posters at Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association Conference
August 2020:
Welcome to Instructor: Dr. Tom Francis
Welcome to Instructor: Dr. Nina Dulabaum
July 2020:
Seven steps to creating resilience during a pandemic
Benight on resilience: “We’re going to get through this”
June 2020:
Daniels - Five researchers to be featured on next week’s “The Academic Minute”
May 2020:
Psychology professor Beth Daniels to pursue first-ever Fulbright fellowship focused on gender studies
Harwell - Sleep and Trauma: What we know and where we are headed
Daniels - The New York Times: What Is Beauty Now?
2020 LAS Awards - Psychology
Congratulations, UCCS' LAS Class of 2020!
Okun and Feliciano study pandemic’s effect on students’ physical and psychological health
Psychology graduate alumni making an impact
April 2020:
Commencement Feature: Yeager brings technology background to address trauma treatment
Psychology graduate programs best program distinctions in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings
CU On Air - Psychology alumna Dr. Mary Dodge - CU Denver prof examines white-collar and traditional criminals, investigations, trends and tech
Thayer awarded grant by the Committee on Research and Creative Works (CRCW)
Qualls and Benight featured in local news outlets
Daniels receives UCCS Faculty Assembly Service Award
March 2020:
Al-Shawaf named Rising Star by Association for Psychological Science