Welcome to the University of Tennessee's Department of Psychology

Welcome to the UT Department of Psychology!

The Department of Psychology at The University of Tennessee is committed to enhancing knowledge of psychological principles and practices through scholarship and rigorous research. In addition, the faculty are committed to promoting the discipline of Psychology through professional service at the national and local levels.

The Department of Psychology values diversity in all its forms, and is committed to increasing diversity through graduate student admissions as well as through faculty and staff hiring decisions.

Special Note for Fall 2014 Graduate Admissions.

Please note that procedures for Fall 2014 graduate admissions have changed, and applicants should contact Ms. Connie Ogle at cjogle@utk.edu for updated application procedure information.

Psychology News

Christi Culpepper, a third year clinical student who works with Deb Welsh, received one of four Carl Cowan Scholarships at the UT Office of Minority Affairs' Multicultural Graduation Celebration on Sunday, April 22. The Carl Cowan Scholarship is a university-wide competitive honor to an undergraduate or graduate student of $1000 awarded by Minority Student Affairs for outstanding achievement, involvement in the University of Tennessee community, and financial need.

Clinical graduate student Jeniimarie Febres was a recipient last year, and undergradute psychology major Sharice Hill received the award the year before that.

Congratulations to Christi!
JoAnna Elmquist, an incoming graduate student in clinical who will work with Greg Stuart, has been named a recipient of the J. Wallace & Katie Dean Graduate Fellowship. Each department may submit one nominee. The fellowship carries a stipend of $15000 and comes with a departmental fee waiver and 25% assistantship.
Our department is also allowed to submit two applications for summer graduate research assistantships ($3600 each). Each of our applicants, Maggie Guy, working with Greg Reynolds, and Heather Zucosky, working with Greg Stuart, has been awarded a summer GRA.
Finally, one of our undergraduate students, Chelsea Ennis, came in first in the Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Exhibition on March 29-30. Her research poster was:
Ennis, C. R., Buehler, C. R., Loveday, R. R., Strimpfel, J. M., & Macfie, J. (2012). Reported experience of maltreatment by adolescents whose mothers have borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement at the University of Tennessee.
Christi Culpepper, a third year clinical student who works with Deb Welsh, received one of four Carl Cowan Scholarships at the UT Office of Minority Affairs' Multicultural Graduation Celebration on Sunday, April 22. The Carl Cowan Scholarship is a university-wide competitive honor to an undergraduate or graduate student of $1000 awarded by Minority Student Affairs for outstanding achievement, involvement in the University of Tennessee community, and financial need.

Clinical graduate student Jeniimarie Febres was a recipient last year, and undergradute psychology major Sharice Hill received the award the year before that.

Congratulations to Christi!
Two former graduate students, Mark Krause and Dan Corts, just published an Introductory Psychology textbook as co-authors. The book is Psychological Science: Modeling Scientific Literacy, and is published by Pearson. Mark is currently on the faculty at Southern Oregon University and Dan is currently on the faculty at Augustana College in Illinois. Mark’s mentor at UT was Gordon Burghardt and Dan’s was Howard Pollio (Emeritus).
Research Assistant Professor Rex Cannon has just published a new book, Low Resolution Brain Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA): Basic Concepts and Clinical Applications
Gordon Burghardt, who studies reptile behavior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, agrees that the study is "important" for linking learning with climate. But he's cautious about the results, in part because the experiments weren't blinded: Amiel knew which lizards came from warm and cold nests, and he knew which hiding place was the good one. Without blinding, Burghardt says, unconscious biases or even inadvertent behavioral cues from the experimenter can be "really problematic."
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Todd Moore has been selected as Contributing Editor of the Year for the APA journal Psychology of Violence.
Kristi Gordon receives DHHS grant