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December 2004
Two graduate students receive APA Dissertation Award.
Graduate students Nicole McNeil and Amy Mezulis have each been awarded dissertation awards by the
American Psychological Association.
December 2004
UW Psychology Department rated most innovative in graduate education!
The UW Psychology Department has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2004 Award for Innovation in Graduate Education in Psychology sponsored
by the American Psychological Association's Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) in cooperation with the Council of Graduate Departments of
Psychology (COGDOP). The department's award citation is for "the development by your department of a program designed to foster excellence in
research, especially cross-disciplinary, integrative research among graduate students." UW Psychology will receive an award of $2,500. We are co-sharing the
award with a consortium of Canadian universities, so this makes our program the most innovative in the United States! Click here for the full text of the letter of nomination which describes all of our innovations
November 2004
Alibali makes it two in a row
Prof. Martha Alibali has received the 2004 Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award of the American Psychological Association for the outstanding Young
Psychologist studying developmental processes. Prof. Alibali follows in the footsteps of Jenny Saffran who received this award two years ago.
Read more about Alibali's research.
October 2004
Wisconsin Retains #1 Ranking in R&D Expenditures
The National Science Foundation has released its report on "Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2001", the most recent year for
which such data are available, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has retained it's top ranking among departments of psychology, for both for federally
financed and total expenditures. At $16.7 million for federal and $22.8 million total, Wisconsin accounted for 4% of all psychology R&D expenditures in the
United States.
June 2004
New Book from Newest Faculty Member
When newly hired assistant professor Tim Rogers arrives in Madison this August he'll have one extra box
to unpack: a shipment from MIT Press containing his just-published book Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach, co-authored with James L. McClelland.
The book advances a mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge, and addresses
such issues as development of knowledge, categorization, expertise, and semantic dementia. Rogers joins
us from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England, where he has been a research scientist.
May 2004
Professor H. Hill Goldsmith, Leona Tyler and Fluno Bascom Professor of Psychology, has been
elected President of the Behavior Genetics Association.
Follow this link to read about Dr. Goldsmith's research at the UW Twin Center Web page.
April 2004
Editorship announced
Professor Judith Harackiewicz has recently accepted editorship of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Her four-year term begins
January 1, 2005.
April 2004
Professor Christopher Coe and colleagues have been awarded the 2004 Ziskind-Somerfield
Research Award for the most innovative paper published in the journal Biological Psychiatry during the previous year: Coe et al. (2003) "Prenatal stress
diminishes neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the juvenile rhesus monkey," Biol. Psychiat. 54:1025-1034.
April 2004
Professor Lyn Abramson, together with long-time research collaborator
Lauren Alloy of Temple University, has received the 2004 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology
February 2004
(from the NIHM Web site)
Mental Illness Genetics Among Science's Top "Breakthroughs" for 2003
Research on the genetics of mental illness, most of it NIMH-funded and much of it
in the Institute's own laboratories, was named the #2 scientific "breakthrough of the year"
by Science magazine in its December l9, 2003 issue. The prestigious journal selected the
mental health studies first of nine runners-up - second only to newfound insights into the
nature of the cosmos. It cited progress not only in identifying genes that increase one's
risk of developing schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder, but also in "unraveling"
how the genes work in the brain to influence vulnerability.
Among studies specifically mentioned is the finding by NIMH grantees Drs. Avshalom Caspi
and Terrie Moffitt, University of Wisconsin, that a variant of the serotonin transporter
gene doubles the risk of depression following life stresses in early adulthood. This
work was reported in A. Caspi et al., "Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation
by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene," Science 301, 386 (2003)
January 2004
Associate Professor Jenny Saffran has been awarded the American Psychological Association's 2004 Early
Career Award in Cognition and Human Learning. This highly competitive award is only made once every
two years. Read about Saffran's research at http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/infantlearning/infant_reasearch.html
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