News
2016
Dr. Lynne Cooper elected as President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology is the largest professional organization in the world for social and personality psychologists. Her election as President reflects Professor...
Dr. Nelson Cowan appointed as the incoming Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Dr. Nelson Cowan appointed as the incoming Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Editorship of this important and prestigious journal is a high honor, which recognizes Professor Cowan's long history of scholarly contributions in experimental cognitive psychology.
Carrie, Skyla, Shalynn, and Delvin Mellerup
Delvin Mellerup receives the Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award for 2016. These awards represent those who best reflect honor upon the University and the community through a combination of job performance, job-related personal qualities, relationship with their associates, and the ability to...
Dr. Bruce Bartholow receives the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences for 2016. Given every two years, this campus-wide award gives special recognition to MU faculty members who are still in the developmental phases of their careers, have made...
2015
Professors Jeff Rouder and Bruce Bartholow elected Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science. Drs. Rouder and Bartholow join several of their colleagues in Psychological Sciences (Dr. Kenneth Sher, Dr. Timothy Trull, Dr. Laura King, Dr. David Geary, Dr. Nelson Cowan, Dr. Moshe Naveh-...
Curators' Professor Kenneth Sher Elected President of the Research Society on Alcoholism. The Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) is the most prominent professional organization of alcohol researchers in the U.S. and has an international membership. Professor Sher has served numerous...
Congratulations to Brigid Marriott, 3rd year Clinical PhD student, on receiving Honorable Mention for the 2017 APA Ethics Committee Graduate Student Ethics Writing Prize. Her sole-author paper, “Ethical Considerations for the Treatment of Youth in Foster Care,” appears in the November 2017 issue of...
Congratulations to senior Psychology majors and honors capstone students Haley Benson, Najeebah Husain, and Kristin Thompson on being awarded Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) Psi Chi Regional Awards for their research poster proposals! They will receive their awards at the...
In the summer of 2016, seven undergraduate students from across the United States participated in the University of Missouri’s first Alcohol Research Training Summer School (MU-ARTSS), an internship geared toward training students from diverse backgrounds in the psychological...
Dr. Ken Sher for has been selected to be the speaker for the 2017’s Mark Keller Honorary Lecture Series on the NIH Campus this Fall (open to the public). This is a great honor, as Dr. Sher, who was informed by the Director of NIAAA about it, would be the first behavioral researcher (who...