UW-Madison celebrated Veterans Day (November 11) at an event honoring those who have served and continue to serve in the U.S. military. The celebration coincided with the centennial anniversary of Memorial Union’s groundbreaking, a memorial …
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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 academic advisor Madeline Fer-Chapman joins Department
We are pleased to welcome new academic advisor Madeline Fer-Chapman to the Department of Psychology. Madeline joins us most recently from the College of Engineering at UW–Madison where she advised students in five engineering majors …
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 Faculty Focus: Rosa Lafer-Sousa
The Department of Psychology is pleased to welcome new faculty member Rosa Lafer-Sousa. Lafer-Sousa earned her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at Wellesley College. After graduation, she worked as a lab manager in Bevil Conway’s labs …
New Faculty Focus: Vivian Paulun
The Department of Psychology is pleased to welcome new faculty member Vivian Paulun. Paulun comes to us most recently from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of …
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. …