Associate Professor Kate Walsh of the Department of Psychology, along with Assistant Professor Mariel Barnes of the La Follette School, received a Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant to evaluate the effectiveness of flexible financial assistance in helping …
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Walsh receives Department of Justice grant to expand sexual assault services on UW-Madison campus
Kate Walsh, Professor of Psychology and Gender and Women’s Studies, and head of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crimes, to expand …
Wan named 2024 AVDF/ACLS Fellow for Research on the Liberal Arts
Sirui Wan, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology, has been named a 2024 AVDF/ACLS Fellow for Research on the Liberal Arts. The grant is administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and …
Watch John Curtin’s TEDxOshkosh talk, “Mental Healthcare at Our Fingertips”
Professor of Psychology John Curtin spoke at TEDxOshkosh in November 2021. Watch his talk below on how two emerging technological innovations, Digital Therapeutics and Personal Sensing, can address the mental health crisis by delivering highly scalable …
Welcome New Faculty
This fall, the Department of Psychology welcomed five new outstanding scholars to our faculty, representing a wide range of expertise in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology. We are thrilled they are here and look forward …
What we lose when we hide our smiles behind a mask
Trying to interact with other humans without being able to smile is the facial equivalent of communicating via text message; it’s easy to be misunderstood. Your expression and words lack context. People wonder: Are you …
What’s in a name? Power of labels in disability identity, societal perception
After obtaining a law degree from UW-Madison, Nicki Vander Meulen attempted to find work as a lawyer, but received rejection after rejection. “The minute any law firm found out I was disabled or autistic no …
When Personal Experience Meets Psychology: Mark Koranda
While lectures and classroom discussions certainly affect our understanding of a given topic, applying classroom insights to life experience takes that knowledge to another level. Such is the case for two of our own – …
When Personal Experience Meets Psychology: Samantha Michaels
While lectures and classroom discussions certainly affect our understanding of a given topic, applying classroom insights to life experience takes that knowledge to another level. Such is the case for two of our own – …
William Epstein, professor emeritus, dies at 88
William Epstein, 88, professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology, died peacefully at home on December 17, 2019. Bill’s long and distinguished academic career began at the University of Kansas in 1959, continued at the …