Noteworthy Accomplishments, 2008-09
Faculty
- Mallinckrodt co-investigator for $300,000 federal grant to study suicide prevention.
- Owens, Levy, and Szymanski submitted proposals for an additional $300,000 that were not funded this year.
- Szymanski received the 2008 UT Chancellor’s LGB Ally Research Award.
- Szymanski was lead author of a Major Contribution in The Counseling Psychologist. Only six Major Contribution proposals are accepted each year.
- Szymanski was named in 2009 as an Emerging Leader of Women in Psychology by the APA Committee of Women in Psychology.
- Owens received a 2009 SARIF summer research award.
- Mallinckrodt was one of 100 psychologists invited to 2008 APA Science Leadership Conference.
- Mallinckrodt continues as Editor for Journal of Counseling Psychology. JCP ranked 7th in impact factor among 61 journals in applied psychology.
- Total publications of four tenure track faculty (Levy, Mallinckrodt, Owens, and Szymanski) now exceed 150, which represents 4.3 publications per year for each year they have been teaching. This total includes more than 40 articles in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the première publication in our field. Their work has been cited more than 1300 times, including 192 times in 2008.
Students
- Mi Ra Sung recipient of the 2008 UT Diversity Enhancement Fellowship.
- Catherine Hererra recipient of an APA Minority Fellowship, $20,000 support for three years. She is one of only 7 recipients selected from 157 applications received from psychology graduate students across the U.S. (Gina Owens, advisor).
- Amanda Alexander named NCAA Academic All American while completing the last year of her eligibility on the UT Women’s Track team.
- Over the past five years, admitted students’ mean Verbal + Quant GRE scores = 1204 (which includes GRE-V scores from several students who are not native speakers of English). These are the highest mean GREs since the program was founded in 1980.
- Current enrollment includes 13% U.S. ethnic minority students and 27% international students. Our international students come from countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and from the Caribbean in North America.
Program
- APA site visit results in full accreditation for seven years. UT Counseling Psychology becomes the first program accredited in the U.S. with a Scientist-Practitioner-Advocate training model.