Media, Awards, Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Kasia Bieszczad, the recipient of the Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards for the academic year 2021-2022. Dr. Bieszczad is one of the university’s most distinguished young faculty members.

 These awards recognize the achievements of educators at Rutgers in every stage of their careers for the work they do guiding the intellectual development of students, for their exceptional research accomplishments, and for the difference they make in the community.

To learn more about the

The G. Terence Wilson Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award is a $500 award given annually to graduate students in the Rutgers University Psychology Department Clinical Psychology Program for innovative and rigorous clinical research. The G. Terence Wilson Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award was created in 2022 to honor distinguished Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program member Oscar Krisen Buros Professor Terry Wilson. Dr. Wilson served as a member of the Rutgers Psychology

The Henry Rutgers Scholar Award recognizes graduating seniors and exceptional juniors who have completed outstanding independent research projects leading to a thesis in their major field of study or an interdisciplinary thesis. These awards are offered across all departments of the School of Arts and Sciences, and so represent only the very finest achievements of our students.

Congratulations to the 2022 Henry Rutgers Scholar Award Recipients.

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Congratulations to Anne Sokolowski, our graduate coordinator, and Tamela Wilcox, our unit computing manager, the recipients of the 2021 and 2022 SAS Staff Excellence Awards. On a daily basis, both Tamela and Anne go above and beyond to ensure that the Psychology Department is well taken care of and they do so with uncomparable professionalism and personality. It is our absolute honor to have you as an integral member of the psychology family. We are grateful and appreciative of your continuous

Congratulations to our graduate student Melanie Maimon, the recipient of the 2022 Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award given by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2 of the APA). Melanie will be presented with a monetary award and plaque at the award ceremony in October 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA.

If you would like to learn more about the award please check out the link below:

https://www.apa.org/about/awards/div-2-mckeachie?tab=1

Rutgers professor Elizabeth Torres hopes to take her innovative, computer-based approach towards autism and child development to a new level, thanks to a partnership with social-emotional learning (SEL) platform provider SiLAS Solutions. A collaboration with SiLAS (Socially Interactive Learning Avatar Software) will offer Torres and her team the opportunity to reach more children through the company’s relationships with schools and school districts across the United States.

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Wednesday, April 13th, the Women's Lacrosse Team honored the senior's favorite professors for their game vs Wagner. Dr. Mimi Phan was honored by senior student-athlete, Shannon Siebold.

The Autism Science Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding innovative autism research and supporting families facing autism, today announced the recipients of its annual pre- and postdoctoral fellowship grants. Seven predoctoral and two postdoctoral fellowship grants will be awarded to students for their novel project proposals, ranging from understanding sex-based differences in autism to assessing depression inminimally verbal autistic adults.

“In our ongoing effort to

Congratulations to Dr. Kasia Bieszczad, the recipient of the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence Award for the academic year 2021-2022. Dr. Bieszczad is one of the university’s most distinguished young faculty members.

Chancellor-Provost Conway initiated the Teaching Fellows Program in 2021 to support pedagogical innovation aimed at improving student learning outcomes.