Archived News

• APS Showcases Baghdoyan, Lydic Publication
• Dante Stallworth, former UT psychology student and football star, wrote a powerful Op-Ed piece published in the New York Times July 8, 2020
• Grzanka Publishes Papers on Sexual Orientation Beliefs and Impacts
• Ed Garnes Quoted in AJC
• Jioni Lewis Stresses Action in Wake of Protests
• In Memoriam – Larry Ventis
• Counseling Psychology Graduate Student Charlotte Strauss Swanson Wins National Research Award
• Counseling Graduate Student Erica Peppers Receives National Awards
• 2020 Distinguished UT Psychology Alumnus Award
• 2020 Department of Psychology Staff Awards
• Powers Receives Award for Outstanding Advising
• Psychology and Chancellor’s Spring 2020 Awards for Graduate Students
• Psychology and Chancellor’s Spring 2020 Awards for Undergraduate Students
• Shteynberg, Bentley, Garthoff Publish Interdisciplinary Paper on Collective Learning
• Matt Cooper Receives NIH Grant
• Allen Discusses Managing Anxiety and Parenting During Pandemic
• Allen Publishes Article on Race and Hypertension
• Neuroscience Lecturer Position Announcement
• Burghardt Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
• Deep Values Canvassing Intervention Project Funded
• Grzanka Receives Academic Outreach Award for Service
• Cooper Receives Excellence in Teaching Award
• Shteynberg Receives Collaborative Research Award
• Angela Chuang Talks Science Board Games
• “Game Face” Study in Media
• McClain Receives 2019 William C. Howell Scholarship
• Matt Cooper Discusses Role of Stress in Teeth Grinding
• Marcia Chavez Receives Tennessee Doctoral Fellowship
• Burghardt Discusses Which Animals Play and Why
• Greg Stuart Named 2019 Chancellor’s Professor
• Shteynberg Says Social Media Addiction is Different for Different People
• Gonzalez Honored for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology
• Burghardt Featured on BBC’s Animals at Play
• Austin Peay in the News
• Hay, Newnam Receive NICHD Grant
• Graduate Students Receive National Research Grants
• Gonzalez Recognized for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity
• Lewis Recognized for Professional Contributions to Research
• Professor Kristi Gordon Involved in Collaborative Research at UVA
• Facial Expressions Research Makes Splash in Media
• Reynolds Awarded NIH Grant
• Brem Receives Distinguished Student Research Award
• Castaneda to Compete in 2019 UT Three Minute Thesis Competition
• Patrick Grzanka Offers Opinion on George Korda's Column on Men Being Marginalized on College Campuses
• Kristi Gordon Discusses Three Rules to Cut Screen Time
• Stuart’s Research Featured by UT’s Faculty Spotlight Series
• Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies/Lecturer Position Announced
• Stuart, Shorey Receive NIH Grant
• Jioni Lewis Mentoring Work Lauded
• Delia Shelton Receives NSF I-Corps Grant
• Kristi Gordon receives John Templeton Foundation grant
• Corbetta elected as a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology
• Gordon, Rose Receive NSF Grant on Alzheimer Patient-Caregiver Relationships
• Fillauer Takes Leadership Role in APA
• Brem Receives Grant to Study Alcohol-Related Violence to Cyber Dating Violence
• Buss Receives $1.1 NIH Grant
• Florimbio’s Research Highlighted in Psypost
• David March Receives Publication Award
• Hardin, Miles, and Grzanka receive NSF ADVANCE Grant
• Garriy Shteynberg's work in the media: Why So Extreme? Psychologist Looks at How We Find Common Ground
• Kristi Gordon in the media WBIR Relationship Personality types spot
• Jioni Lewis receives national mentoring award
• Patrick Grzanka receives national teaching award
• Keri Fantell and Renee Mikorski receive national awards
• Anahvia Moody, Cecile Gadson, and Erica Peppers receive national research awards
• Caitlin Clevenger receives award from APA Division 44
• Garriy Shteynberg receives 3-year NSF grant
• Brittany Coppinger receives American Ornithological Society Research Award
• Brittany Coppinger receives ABS Student Research Grant
• Alumna Awarded Fulbright for Smart Meter Adoption Research
• Psychology graduate students receive honors
• Psychology Majors receive honors
• Matt Cooper, Jess Hay, Tim Hulsey, and Greg Stuart receive awards at 2018 Chancellor's Honors Banquet
• Doctoral student in Clinical Psychology, Caitlin Clevenger, research featured as part of Graduate Student Appreciation week
• Helen Baghdoyan was featured on NPR’s Academic Minute
• Recent Psychology major alumna Jacqueline Adams receives Fulbright award
• Congrats to the UT Debate Team!
• Anahvia Moody receives prestigious national fellowship
• Psychology Students Launch Brain Awareness Campaign
• Nick Coles receives NSF International Fellowship to conduct research in the Netherlands for a year
• Kristi Gordon's research highlighted in the Community Engagement and Outreach News for February 2018
• Department of Psychology Diversity Council Issues Statement Against Racism and Hate
• Greg Reynolds receives NSF grant
• Kalynn Schulz receives NIH grant
• Dawn Szymanski selected as the editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly
• Helen Baghdoyan and Ralph Lydic’s recent paper in Anesthesiology examining how a popular drug used to treat opioid addiction could lead to breathing problems is getting media attention from NPR and other outlets
• David March receives national research award
• Psychology Department well represented at the 2017 College of Arts & Sciences Awards Dinne
• Chris Elledge interviewed by WBIR news about the recent bullying of an East Tennessee boy and bullying research
• Weighing In: Burghardt shares opinions on pet reptiles
• Jennifer Garner, a doctoral student in Biological Psychology, and Dr. Subimal Datta’s research that found a growth-promoting protein linked to REM sleep but not other phases of sleep in rats was discussed in The Scientist Magazine.
• Delia Shelton, soon-to-be faculty member in the Biological area, discusses mentorship programs in science
• Jenny Macfie describes how role confusion can affect identity development
• Kim Case Receives Accomplished Alumni Award
• Gordon Burghard’t work on snake toxicity and their behavior in "New Scientist"
• Subimal Datta receives 5-year $1.7 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Meagan Brem receives Visionary Fund Grant from the American Psychological Foundation
• The research of Meagan Brem, a Clinical Student who works with Greg Stuart, was featured in an article in Psychology Today
• Gordon Burghardt and fellow distinguished evolutionary scholar, Keven Laland, interviewed about niche construction
• Gordon Burghardt’s research on snakes highlighted in the Knoxville News Sentinel
• Dawn Szymanski receives national award
• Gordon Burghardt was quoted in a Discovery magazine article about the play behavior of non-mammalian animals.
• Professor Jeff Larsen, interviewed by the New York Times, discusses both his own research as well as an unpublished honors thesis from alumna Micaela Mercer ('16)
• Caitlin Clevenger, a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program who works with Greg Stuart, provided an expert interview focused on youth suicide to Channel 8 WVLT
• 2017 Psychology Chancellor's Honors Recipients
• Diversity Improves Problem-Solving Success. Just Ask Songbirds.
• Jess Hay’s research program is featured in the current issue of Quest
• Psychology student Claudia Garcia has op-ed published in the News Sentinel
• Joe Miles and Keri Frantell awarded APF research grant
• Kristi Gordon speaks as a relationship expert on WBIR about the importance of couples’ taking time outs during heated arguments
• Gordon Burghardt’s research highlighted in a recent article by National Geographic
• Kristi Gordon's work featured in January APA Monitor
• Katie Lenger receives national grant from the Mind and Life Institute
• Six Faculty Members Honored at Annual Faculty Awards Banquet
• Grzanka, Miles, Flores, Spengler, Devore, and Frantell receive SPSSI Grant Award
• Elizabeth Thomas receives APA Dissertation Research Award
• Erin Hardin receives grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission
• Gordon Speaks to NewsTalk about How to Have a Good Marriage
• Boston Globe Highlights Shteynberg Research on Peer Pressure and Debates
• WVLT Interviews Shteynberg, Fox about Psychology of Being a Sports Fan, Impact on Economy
• Szymanski, Feltman Discuss Emotional Toll of Working in ‘Breastaurants’ in Raw Story
• Erin Hardin receives NSF Grant
• Jioni Lewis received two prestigious national awards for her research and scholarship
• Yacob Tekie awarded a Penley-Thomas Graduate Fellowship
• David March awarded a Penley-Thomas Graduate Fellowship
• Patrick Grzanka was interviewed last week by the Knoxville abc affiliate WATE news in the aftermath of the Orlando shootings and the impact of multiple minority identities and discrimination
• Jonny Bourn, a doctoral student in counseling program, receives national award
• The Scientist Interviews Shteynberg about Emotional Contagion
• Matt Cooper received 3-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health
• Gordon Burghardt's work cited in NYTimes: Is Your Pet Lonely and Bored?
• Greg Stuart was selected as the 2016 recipient of the Toy Caldwell-Colbert Award for Distinguished Educator in Clinical Psychology
• Patrick Grzanka interviewed on Knoxville WATE Channel 6 about the bill recently signed that allows therapists to refuse to treat patients based on the therapist’s religious or personal beliefs
• Erin Hardin receives the 2016 Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award
• Psychology graduate students receive awards at the 2016 Chancellor’s Honors banquet
• Daniela Corbetta and Leticia Flores receive awards at the 2016 Chancellor’s Honors banquet
• Two Counseling Psychology graduate students working with Jioni Lewis received impressive awards from local organizations committed to supporting diversity
• Kristi Gordon’s work via an interdivisional APA grant as part of her presidency of Division 43 (Society for Couple and Family Psychology) highlighted in APA media release
• Megan Carl, a fourth year Clinical Student working with Jenn Bolden, received the APA Division 39 Scholar award at the spring meeting in Atlanta, GA
• Nick Coles has been awarded an NSF Grad Research Fellowship
• Vladimir Dinets’ Hyena-Wolf Study in National, International News
• Gordon Burghardt quoted in a NY Times blog story
• Todd Freeberg discusses whether some birds are responding to sounds because they recognize language in an article in the Christian Science Monitor
• Patrick Grzanka and Joe Miles’ study on sexual orientation belief has been highlighted by the Huffington Post, as well as several other US and United Kingdom-based media outlets
• Gordon Burghardt was interviewed by the Smithsonian Magazine for a story about beluga whales
• Helen Baghdoyan and Ralph Lydic’s research was highlighted as the cover story for the winter issue of Quest
• Kristi Gordon selected as one of only four faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences whose research is highlighted during 2016 Faculty Appreciation Week
• David March, a Social Psychology Doctoral Student, won the Graduate Student Poster Award at the 2015 meeting of the SSSP
• Cecile Gadson, a second year Counseling PhD Student, received a $1,000 scholarship from the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority National Educational Foundation
• Incoming doctoral student Ed Garnes was recently profiled in Young Black Entrepreneur Magazine
• Jerika Norona, a third year Clinical student, receives the American Psychological Association (APA) Early Graduate Student Researcher Award
• Juliet Meggs, a fourth-year doctoral student in our Counseling Program is one of 7 UT women featured in the Provost's recent newsletter, "Women with Big Ideas"
• Jerika Norona, a third year student in the Clinical Program, received the 2014 APA Science Student Council Early Graduate Student Researcher Award.
• Congratulations to Dani Recabarren, a Counseling student, who was selected by the APA Minority Fellowship Program to attend a week long Psychology Summer Institute in Washington, DC
• Congratulations to Katherine Waxstein, Ellen Renfroe, and Cole Liles for their Chancellor Honors
• Elizabeth Thomas, a first year Counseling PhD student, received the prestigious federally funded APA Minority Predoctoral Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Fellowship
• Three of our doctoral students received recognition at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet
• Sabrina Thurman, a Developmental PhD student, received the 2014 Sigma Xi award for outstanding graduate research presentation
• Jerika Norona, a Clinical student, was selected as the 2014-15 recipient of the Carl Cowan Scholarship
• Darren Garcia, an incoming Clinical student, awarded a Graduate Diversity Enhancement Fellowship from the Graduate School
• Six Psychology Department faculty members received awards at the Fall 2015 College of Arts & Sciences Awards Dinner
• Subimal Datta receives the 2015 Dr. B.K. Anand Oration Award
• Dawn Szymanski Examines Toll of 'Breastaurants'
• Assistant Professor Jessica Hay was recently awarded a 5-year $1.3 million dollar NIH R01 grant titled, "Infant statistical learning: Resilience, longevity, and specificity".
• Gordon Burghardt's research on animal play is highlighted in Tennessee Today
• Erin Hardin awarded a 5-year NIH grant from the Science Education Partnership (R25) titled "Possibilities in Postsecondary Education and Science among Rural Appalachian Youth (PIPES)".
• Dr. Jioni Lewis has been selected to receive the nationally competitive 2015 Carolyn Payton Early Career Professional Award
• Students, Staff, and Faculty from the Psychology Department were well represented as recipients of awards at the 2015 Chancellor's Honors Awards Banquet
• Interview with Drs. Ralph Lydic and Helen Baghdoyan recently aired on WUOT NPR about how the brain regulates various states of consciousness and how anesthesia actually works
• Thanks + Giving: UT Researcher Says Gratitude May be a Key to Happiness
• Honors Director Timothy Hulsey is President of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
• Todd Freeberg receives a 4-year NSF grant entitled,
• World Cup Fever: UT Study Shows Group Fervor Stems from Shared Experiences
• UT professors lead facial analysis project
• Congratulations to Jeff Larsen (PI) and Michael Olson (Co-I) for receiving a $246,980 3-year Templeton Foundation Grant titled,
• Psychology faculty members were well recognized Chancellor’s Honors Banquet
• Cheryl Travis elected by the American Psychological Association Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest (BAPPI) to serve as one of six elected members on the national Committee on Women in Psychology
• Terri Lee elected as a 2013 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Congrats to Michael Olson, Jim McNulty, Matt Shaffer, and Andria Melzer for their paper that was being published in December 2013 in Science.
• Gordon Burghardt receives the inaugural Arts and Sciences Convocation Award for Distinguished Research Career at UT
• Brent Mallinckrodt received the 2013 “Best in Science” award from Division 17 of the American Psychological Association at its annual convention in August
• Lance Laurence received the 2013 Outstanding Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association Division 31
• Kristi Gordon was elected as the 2015 President of Division 43 APA Society for Family Psychology, and President-Elect for 2014
• Gordon Burghardt received a Research Fellowship from the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton for the Spring 2014 semester