It is with sincere sadness to report that our good friend Dr. Stephanie Harter passed away on May 18, 2013.  Stephanie served on our faculty as a member of the APA-Accredited Clinical Psychology program (twice serving as the Director of Clinical Training) for 20 years.  Her research interests included constructivist psychology, trauma, and the psychology of art.  She taught integral classes to our doctoral students, along with an array of undergraduate classes.  Stephanie also provided effective and gracious service at the university, college, department and professional levels.  Most importantly, she was a wonderful colleague and will be dearly missed.

Please see the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Obituary linked here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?n=stephanie-harter


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Two professors from our psychology department were recognized for their achievements at Texas Tech University.  Dr. Steven Richards, Professor for the Counseling Psychology program, won the President's Academic Achievement Award.  Recipients of this award demonstrate excellence in achievement across teaching, research, and service to the university.  Dr. Roman Taraban, Professor for the Experimental Psychology program, won the President's Excellence in Teaching Award.  Receipts of this award demonstrate excellence in teaching activities and in their role as a teacher. 


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Dr. Michael Serra was elected as a full member of the Psychonomic Society, which is an organization that promotes scientific research in psychology and allied sciences.  Members are qualified to conduct and supervise scientific research, must hold a PhD degree or equivalent, and must have published significant research other than the doctoral dissertation in high-quality referred journals.  We congratulate Dr. Serra for receiving this distinguished membership!

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The Graduate School hosts an annual Graduate Student Awards Ceremony to honor graduate students who have won awards during the academic year.  Eight psychology graduate students won awards from the Graduate Student Research Poster Competition, the TEACH program, and the Helen DeVitt Jones Excellence in Graduate Part-Time Teaching Award. 


Congratulations to our psychology graduate award receipts!

Helen DeVitt Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award Recipients:
Abby Diehl
Benjamin England
Elizabeth Schmidlin

TEACH Program Fellow:

Katy Perez White

Research Poster Award Recipients:

Eevin Jennings
Joe Adam Randell
K. Rachelle Smith

Service Award from Graduate Student Council  Recipient:

Danielle Jahn

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Brittany Neilson, a TTU Human Factors graduate student, was awarded the Foundation for Education and Research in Biofeedback and Related Sciences (FERB) Student Travel Scholarship to attend the 44th Annual Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) Scientific Meeting in Portland, OR.  Brittany will be presenting at the conference on her research conducted at NASA Langley Research Center during an internship.


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Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, a graduate of TTU's Human Factors program, was featured in this month's issue of the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology.  Her dissertation research involving issues related to air traffic controllers working with automated systems was recognized in the article.  Her dissertation was funded by the American Psychological Foundation and won Best Dissertation Award by APA Division 21, the Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology Division.  

The article highlighting Dr. Sethumadhavan's accomplishments can be found here.

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Dr. Lee Cohen, Chair of the Psychology Department and Professor of Psychology for the Clinical Psychology program, was awarded the Annual Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award.  This award is one of the most prestigious honors given to faculty.  Dr. Cohen was one of seven faculty members at Texas Tech who received the award.

A news story about the 12th-Annual Chancellor's Council can be found here.


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The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has a recent news article on traffic collisions and our own Human Factors Professor, Dr. Patricia DeLucia, is recognized as an expert on perception who contributes insightful research relevant to motor vehicle accidents.  Specifically, her research on perceptual judgements and time to collision suggest that individuals use unreliable depth cues over one-to-one calculations of an object's distance for making judgements about when collisions will occur.  This result highlights the human perceptual processes that lead to errors in judgement and often can result in traffic accidents.

The news article can be found here.


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Dr. Michael Serra, Assistant Professor of Psychology for the Applied Cognitive program, was inducted into Texas Tech University's Teaching Academy.  The Teaching Academy is comprised of TTU faculty who excel at and are highly interested in teaching and promoting excellence in teaching through advocacy, service, and advising.  Dr. Serra teaches a graduate-level course in teaching psychology, as well as graduate learning theory and metacognition and undergraduate research methods and cognitive psychology.


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Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang, Professor of Psychology for the Applied Cognitive program, was featured in an article in the newest issue of APS Observer.  The article highlights his work on integrative mind-body training (IMBT), adapted from Chinese medicine to improve cognition and mood.  He was chair of a symposium on neuroplasticity, performance, and training at the 24th Annual APS Convention, where he further discussed his research on improving cognitive performance.

The article can be found here.



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