Maryellen MacDonald has been awarded a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award.
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Madison Magazine: Can we emotionally connect with our pets? Some researchers say yes.
A friend of mine, also named Michael, is a longtime cat owner who frequently serenades his pets with classical music. Michael says his current cat, a big orange tabby named Lexington, is a particular fan …
Maryellen MacDonald in The Capital Times: We can learn to talk to one another with masks on
With COVID-19 vaccines coming, it’s easy to fantasize about things getting back to normal — vacation travel, kids in school, dinners in restaurants, going out without a mask. Unfortunately, epidemiologists tell us that all of …
Maryellen MacDonald, field-changing psychology of language professor, retires
Questions about how we produce, comprehend, and remember language are typically investigated by separate research labs. But Psychology Professor Maryellen MacDonald, who joined the UW-Madison faculty in 2001 and retired at the end of the …
Mentor award winners guide undergraduate learning
Each spring the Office of the Provost recognizes outstanding mentors with the Awards for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities. The nominations for this year’s recipients read like a textbook of great mentoring …
More news, more worry during pandemic
Anxiety and fear went hand in hand with trying to learn more about COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic in the United States — and the most distressed people were turning on the …
New Associate Chair for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Announced
The UW–Madison Department of Psychology announced Monday the creation of a new associate chair position focused on issues of race, ethnicity, and anti-racism. College of Letters and Science Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Child Emotion …
New Faculty Focus: Kate Walsh
The Department of Psychology is pleased to welcome our newest faculty member, Kate Walsh. Walsh earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed T32 postdoctoral fellowships in traumatic stress and …
New funding for MIDUS study researching pathways to health and illness across midlife
The Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS) study examines how a variety of factors contribute to differences in physical and mental health and illness as individuals journey across midlife. When Dr. Carol Ryff and other researchers …
New master’s degree program trains students to use advanced data science tools to analyze and understand human behavior
The explosion of data science has changed the ways companies, government offices and nonprofit organizations track how people purchase and utilize goods, interact with each other, comply with regulations and support philanthropy and social causes. …