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For this year only, tickets are not required and pets ARE encouraged to attend. Invite your entire extended family and all your friends from around the globe to celebrate our graduates!
 
Join us on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at 10:50 a.m. (EDT), as we remember milestones from signature events and achievements from the 2019–2020 academic year, followed at 11:00 a.m. by a special address from President Lee C. Bollinger and the official degree conferral of the Class of 2020.
 
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Graduate student Mike Naft has been named a recipient of the 2020 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. 

Interested in being an Honors student? The application for the honors program is now available on our website!

Due to COVID-19 and recent University guidelines, here are the statuses for Department spring events:
 

  • All remaining Monday Seminars are cancelled

 

  • Colloquiums will take place via Zoom on April 8th and April 22nd at 4pm. Links to talk can be found on events page and email flyer

Grad Student Christopher Medina-Kirchner was recently profiled in an article on The Verge titled "Ecstasy and Absolution". The article details his life growing up and his journey researching MDMA as a Ph.D. student in Dr. Carl Hart's Neuropsychopharmacology Lab. A link to read the full article can be found below:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21035472/mdma-ecstasy-drug-misconceptions-science-bad-research-effects-columbia-prison

Congratulations to Professor Mariam Aly who has been named an APS (Association For Psychological Science) Rising Star. The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.

Professor Niall Bolger has won one of this year's prestigious Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awards. 

The awards are given annually to Columbia faculty of unusual merit across a range of professorial activities — including scholarship, University citizenship, and professional involvement — with a primary emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.

The Department of Psychology at Columbia University is seeking an experienced educator with strong expertise in human neuroimaging to help design and lead the lab section of a new graduate-level course on human brain imaging with a focus on functional magnetic resonance imaging. The course will be led by Professors Lila Davachi and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte and will run from January 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020 and include a 2.5-hour weekly lab session. The purpose of the labs is to complement the weekly lectures with more hands-on interactive instruction on the analysis of human brain imaging data. The Associate will help to organize the labs and plan the content with the course organizers, and help to lead each lab. Some of the labs will include interactive talks by guest speakers and/or course organizers, and each lab should include an interactive component, where students perform analyses on human imaging data in class. Topics to cover in the labs include, but are not limited to: linear systems and convolution, Fourier transforms, Python and Matlab for neuroimaging, univariate brain mapping in AFNI/FSL/SPM, functional and effective connectivity analysis, and multivariate pattern information analysis. To get started in planning these labs, we seek an excellent educator with expertise in these areas to start in this position as soon as possible, ideally by November 15th.

Minimum degree: M.A.

Please submit CV and cover letter to: [email protected]

The Department of Psychology at Columbia University invites applications for a part-time Associate/Adjunct Assistant professor position, beginning this fall. We are seeking educators with strong expertise in human neuroimaging to help design and lead the lab section of a new graduate-level course on human brain imaging with a focus on functional magnetic resonance imaging. The course will be led by Professors Lila Davachi and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte and will run during the Spring Semester (Jan. 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020) and include a 2.5-hour weekly lab session. The purpose of the labs is to complement the weekly lectures with more hands-on interactive instruction on the analysis of human brain imaging data. The Associate/Adjunct Assistant Professor will be responsible for instructing the labs and planning the content with the course organizers. Some of the labs will include interactive talks by guest speakers and/or course organizers to complement the teaching by the Associate/Adjunct Assistant Professor. Each lab should include an interactive component, where students perform analyses on human imaging data in class. Topics to cover in the labs include, but are not limited to: linear systems and convolution, Fourier transforms, Python and Matlab for neuroimaging, univariate brain mapping in AFNI/FSL/SPM, functional and effective connectivity analysis, and multivariate pattern information analysis. To get started in planning these labs, we seek an excellent educator with expertise in these areas to start in this position as soon as possible, ideally by November 15th

Minimum degree: PhD

Please submit CV and cover letter to: [email protected]

By joining a lab, you will see how research projects are conducted. Depending on the lab, you may also see how projects are developed, how data is analyzed, and how presentations are put together for conferences and publication. If you are involved in a lab for the long term, you may even contribute to a project that enables you to be a published researcher yourself.

Jarrell Daniels a scholar, activist, and research assistant in Columbia University's Center For Justice program, recently gave a TED Talk that highlights his experiences within the criminal justice system and with the collaborative educational course, Inside Criminal Justice. Please watch and enjoy!

The Honors application is now open! The application deadline is June 3rd, 2019. 

“The Living LAB” is a series of events organized by Faculty of the Psychology Department that aims to enhance our undergraduate students learning experience by opening a discussion space that bridges across neuroscience, psychology, and society. Each event of the series will be delving around one topic chosen from societally-relevant issues and invited guests will include artists, scholars, activists, and industry experts, and will be open to students, and the general public. By the conclusion of this series, we aim to a) have open a space for Faculty of Columbia University to bridge across departments and to engage with outside agents in the society, b) have attracted media attention on relevant societal issues related to psychology, and c) have made a mark on our students and scholars critical thinking and on society at large.

The first event was held on Friday, May 3rd and the invited speaker was be Ms. Isabella Rossellini. Isabella Rossellini, “the world’s most uncategorizable star” (Vanity Fair), is an actress, producer, film maker, model, philanthropist, and lifelong lover of animals. She is now studying the complexity of animal behavior at Hunter College (CUNY), where she is enrolled in the Animal Behavior Conservation graduate program. Daughter of Roberto Rossellini (Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and father of the neorealism) and Ingrid Bergman (Swedish actress, winner of multiple Academy Awards), Ms. Rossellini recent artistical and cultural production diligently and funnily spans across animal behavior, going from “waist down” (e.g., Green Porno, a series of web shorts produced for the Sundance Channel) to “waist up” (e.g., her recent book “My Chickens and I” and her solo piece “Link Link Circus”). The Living LAB1 was about her, her graceful attitude, genuine educational approach, and excellent scientific communication skills, and is and is the opportunity to critically think about similarities and differences between animal and human cognition that students, scholars, and general public shouldn’t miss. #WomenInSTEM @ColumbiaPsyc; #TheLivingLAB; info: [email protected]

Graduate Student Katherine Zee has been awarded the 2019 Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology Dissertation Research Grant, after her proposal was rated the most highly amongst all candidates. This prestigious dissertation award is only awarded to one person each year.