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Kathryn Lenz receives Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award
Dr. Kathryn Lenz is recipient of the 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Early Career Faculty Excellence Award. This award recognizes the top candidate for promotion to Associate Professor in Social…

Courtney L. Benjamin Wolk Named Judy E. Hall Award Winner
Courtney L. Benjamin Wolk Ph.D., an undergraduate alumni of the Psychology Department, was recently named the 2020 recipient of the Judy E. Hall Early Career Psychologist Award.
The…

Dr. Beers Receives ALXOSU Grant
Psychology 1100, under the direction of Dr. Melissa Beers, was one of nine courses at Ohio State to receive a grant through Ohio State's Affordable Learning Exchange to incorporate a racial…

Andy Leber Receives 3-Year Grant from NSF
Andy Leber, Associate Professor of Psychology, has received a 3-year, $548,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, titled "Developing a comprehensive profile of attentional control…

Dr. Schope-Sullivan, APA Fellow, Receives Grant Funding
The Administration for Children and Families has approved grant funding for Dr. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Professor of Developmental Psychology, at Ohio State.
The project is…

Role-play shows which expectant dads will thrive as new fathers
A study co-authored by professor of psychology Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan in which men interacted with a doll depicting their soon-to-be child predicted the quality of their parenting once…

Roger Ratcliff named Distinguished University Professor
Roger Ratcliff has made vast contributions to the field of cognitive psychology, and his research focuses on modeling application and methodology for rapid decision-making. His diffusion…

Dr. Jolynn Pek named American Psychological Association Fellow
Dr. Jolynn Pek, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Psychology, has been named an American Psychological Association Fellow for Division 5: Quantitative and Qualitative methods. Fellows are…

Jiyeon Denninger receives 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
Jiyeon Denninger, MD/PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kirby Lab, has received a 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award from the Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry…