11 of our Psychology and Neuroscience undergraduates are Spring 2018 initiates of the Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Beta Kappa is one of the oldest and most distinguished of all collegiate honorary societies. Membership is … Read more

Chelsea Schein, a graduate student in Social Psychology, is the 2018 recipient of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Heritage Dissertation Research Award. Each year, the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology awards six grants of $1,000 each. At … Read more

Ronald Kim, a graduate student in Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience, is the recipient of a 2018 National Institutes of Health F31 Predoctoral Fellowship. The NIH Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded to graduate students with supervised research training in specified health and … Read more

Dr. Donald Baucom, a Richard Lee Simpson Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, and Dr. Melanie Fischer, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology, are the recipients of a National Institute of Mental Health R03 Grant. The National Institute of Mental Health … Read more

Henry Willis, a graduate student in Clinical Psychology, is the 2018 recipient of the UNC Institute of African American Research (IAAR) Graduate Student Summer Research Grant. Graduate Student Summer Research Grants provides funding to masters, predoctoral and professional graduate students … Read more

Dr. Steven Buzinski, a Teaching Assistant Professor, is the recipient of the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Presentation Grant. The Center for Faculty Excellence supports the grown number of faculty members interested in sharing … Read more

Dr. Eva Telzer, an Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology, is the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence. This Early Career Award recognizes a young scholar whose research, publications, grants, conference presentations, and … Read more

Chelsea Schein, a graduate student in social psychology, is the recipient of the 2018 $10,000 Frank Research in Public Communications Prize for her peer-reviewed academic research that informs the growing discipline of public interest communications. The $10,000 prize is sponsored … Read more

On February 2, 2018, Professor Emeritus Barclay “Bob” Martin passed away at age 94. He was a long-standing member of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, joining the Department as a Full Professor of Clinical Psychology in 1972 and retiring … Read more

Holly Shablack, a graduate student in Social Psychology, has been selected as a Dean’s Graduate Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2018-19 academic year. This fellowship is made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous … Read more