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April 27, 2018

COLUMBIA COLLEGE WOMEN SIGNATURE EVENT w/ Valerie Purdie Greenaway & Jodi Kantor 4/27/18

Join Columbia College Women for this year's signature event: A thought-provoking conversation between New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor CC’96, who broke the Harvey Weinstein story, and Columbia Professor of Psychology Valerie Purdie-Greenaway CC’93, who researches biases against women and minorities. They’ll exchange ideas and inspiration for changing the rules of society to ultimately benefit both women and men.

April 04, 2018

Chelsea Harmon Awarded 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Chelsea Harmon, graduate student in the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab, has been awarded the 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

March 27, 2018

Michelle VanTieghem Selected As A Recipient Of The "American Psychological Foundation's 2018 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship"

Michelle VanTieghem, a graduate student in the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab, has been selected as a recipient of the "American Psychological Foundation's 2018 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship"

March 09, 2018

Spring Majors Forum 2018

Join us on Tuesday April 10th for the Psychology Department Spring Majors Forum. The event will be taking place in Schermerhorn 200B and pizza and refreshments will be served.

February 23, 2018

Professor Mariam Aly Receives a Zuckerman Institute Seed Grant for fMRI Research.

"The Zuckerman Institute’s Seed Grant Program for MR Studies funds magnetic resonance (MR) studies to help the Columbia community ramp up its MR research and MR grant acquisition. The program’s purpose is to ensure that the Columbia research community can rapidly expand the utilization of MR techniques, including functional (fMRI), structural (e.g. diffusion), and metabolic (e.g. spectroscopy) imaging."

February 23, 2018

Spring Open House

All prospective majors, there will be a spring open house on February 23rd from 4-5:30pm in Schermerhorn 200B.

February 15, 2018

"Professor Sarah Woolley's research on the courtship rituals of songbirds was featured in the NY Times and Psychology Today"

February 14, 2018

Megan Goldring Receives APAGS Psychological Science Research Grant

Megan Goldring received an APAGS Psychological Science Research Grant for her project entitled, "If your friends jump off a bridge, is it better to jump with them or alone? Morality, conformity, and blame." Goldring is a lab member of Professor Niall Bolger's lab; the grant is for a collaboration that she is doing with Professor Larisa Heiphetz's lab.

January 16, 2018

Listen to Prof. Purdie Greenaway Speak on "How Stereotypes Threaten Your Brain's Well-Being"

Gain some insight into insider-outsider dynamics in this Big Think talk.

November 02, 2017

Fall Majors Forum: November 9th

Join us on November 9th for the Psychology Department Fall Majors Forum. For details click here.

November 01, 2017

Prof. Higgins and Mark Conley Featured in Columbia News

Prof. Higgins and Mark Conley are Featured in Columbia News in an article titled "Confronting the Venture Capital Bias Against Female Entrepreneurs."

October 18, 2017

New Service for Postdocs

Prof. Mariam Aly has started a group for post-docs and will serve as a "general purpose" advisor for post-docs across labs in the Psychology department.

October 03, 2017

Psi Chi Chapter now at Columbia!

For information about the Psi Chi Honor Society click here.

October 03, 2017

Professor Herb Terrace, Greg Jensen and Drew Altschul Published in PLOS ONE

Drew Altschul, Greg Jensen and Herbert Terrace had Perceptual category learning of photographic and painterly stimuli in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and humans. published in PLOS ONE on Friday, September 29th.

August 31, 2017

Dr. E. Tory Higgins is the winner of the 2017 SPSP Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence.

The Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence is a teaching and mentoring award that honors a personality or social psychologist who has demonstrated a career-long commitment to fostering the professional and intellectual development of students and early career researchers.

August 21, 2017

The Real Opioid Emergency by Prof. Carl Hart

American pattern of cognitive flexibility on drug policy, with harsh penalties for some and sympathetic treatment for others, has a long history — one that continues to this day.

July 19, 2017

Justice-in-Education Initiative Featured in Columbia Magazine

The Initiative is a partnership between the Center for Justice, lead by Professor Geraldine Downey, and the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

June 28, 2017

Graduate Student Mark Conley and Professor Tory Higgins Featured in the Harvard Business Review

An article on gender and entrepreneurship that was recently accepted into the Academy of Management Journal is now featured in the Harvard Business Review.

June 20, 2017

Prof. Lemgruber will Work with Prof. Hart to Conduct a Comparative Analysis of the Cost of The War on Drugs in Brazil and the United States

May 12, 2017

Prof. Geraldine Downey Featured in The Columbia Commitment Campaign

Prof. Geraldine Downey is commitment to contributing to the criminal justice reform.

May 02, 2017

Department of Psychology Annual Research Day

Join the Department of Psychology on May 2nd for a full day of MA talks.

April 26, 2017

Professor Donald C. Hood Receives Honorary Doctorate from Brown University

At its 249^th Commencement on Sunday, May 28, Brown University will confer honorary doctorates on six candidates who have achieved great distinction in a variety of fields, one of which is our very own Professor Donal C. Hood.

April 20, 2017

Professor Rae Silver to be a Keynote Speaker at American University

On April 20th - 21st, Professor Rae Silver will speak at American University on the topic of "Sex Differences: From neuroscience to the clinic and beyond."

April 12, 2017

Penn Professor Dorothy E. Roberts, winner of the Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture Award

Prof. Robert will deliver a public lecture in recognition of this honor on April 12^th, at 4:10PM in Low Library.

Watch Prof. Robert’s TEDMED talk here.

November 17, 2016

Professor Carl Hart Addresses Opioid Crisis

Columbia Psychology Chair, Professor Carl Hart, addresses the so-called opioid crisis in a recent OpEd.

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November 16, 2016

Geraldine Downey Awarded Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Grant

Columbia Psychology Professor Geraldine Downey was recently awarded the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Award for inspiring her former students to make a significant contribution to society.

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October 05, 2016

Diversity in Higher Education

Psychology department chair Professor Carl Hart and his student Zach Wood wrote companion opinion pieces for The Washington Post on the meaning of diversity in higher education and the importance of students having access to diverse faculty.

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September 01, 2016

Bridget Callaghan Awarded Two Prestigious Grants

Bridget Callaghan, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Columbia University Department of Psychology, was recently awarded a Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship and a 2016 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant.

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August 30, 2016

Jailing Old Folks Makes No Sense

Psychology Professor Geraldine Downey and Professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner pen a New York Times oped on the impact of incarcerating older prisoners.

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August 11, 2016

DEA Says No to Reforming Senseless Pot Laws

Columbia University Psychology Professor Carl Hart writes for Scientific American on the DEA rejection of a petition to classify marijuana as no more dangerous than methamphetamine.

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June 01, 2016

NY1

Psychology Chair Professor Carl Hart was interviewed on NY1 about the apparent K2 overdoses in Brooklyn. Visit the NY1 website to watch the interview.

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May 01, 2016

Heritage Wall of Fame

Professor Tory Higgins was recently named to the Heritage Wall of Fame. This award recognizes and celebrates personality and social psychology’s heritage by honoring great teachers and scientists.

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April 01, 2016

American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association recently highlighted a paper in Behavioral Neuroscience by psychology graduate student Billur Avlar and coauthors.

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March 01, 2016

Tannenbaun-Warner Award

Congratulations to Professor Herb Terrace, who has received the Tannenbaun-Warner Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Exceptional Service to the University Seminars.

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February 01, 2016

City of Miami

Congratulations to Professor Carl Hart: The City of Miami has proclaimed February 1, 2016 Dr. Carl Hart Day! To read more about it, visit his website.

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September 15, 2015

Talks@Columbia

Professor Geraldine Downey recently gave a talk on "Why Education Matters" for Columbia's new lecture series, Talks@Columbia.

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE WOMEN SIGNATURE EVENT w/ Valerie Purdie Greenaway & Jodi Kantor 4/27/18

Chelsea Harmon Awarded 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Michelle VanTieghem Selected As A Recipient Of The "American Psychological Foundation's 2018 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship"

Spring Majors Forum 2018

Professor Mariam Aly Receives a Zuckerman Institute Seed Grant for fMRI Research.

Spring Open House

"Professor Sarah Woolley's research on the courtship rituals of songbirds was featured in the NY Times and Psychology Today"

Megan Goldring Receives APAGS Psychological Science Research Grant

Listen to Prof. Purdie Greenaway Speak on "How Stereotypes Threaten Your Brain's Well-Being"

Fall Majors Forum: November 9th

Prof. Higgins and Mark Conley Featured in Columbia News

New Service for Postdocs

Psi Chi Chapter now at Columbia!

Professor Herb Terrace, Greg Jensen and Drew Altschul Published in PLOS ONE

Dr. E. Tory Higgins is the winner of the 2017 SPSP Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence.

The Real Opioid Emergency by Prof. Carl Hart

Justice-in-Education Initiative Featured in Columbia Magazine

Graduate Student Mark Conley and Professor Tory Higgins Featured in the Harvard Business Review

Prof. Lemgruber will Work with Prof. Hart to Conduct a Comparative Analysis of the Cost of The War on Drugs in Brazil and the United States

Prof. Geraldine Downey Featured in The Columbia Commitment Campaign

Department of Psychology Annual Research Day

Professor Donald C. Hood Receives Honorary Doctorate from Brown University

Professor Rae Silver to be a Keynote Speaker at American University

Penn Professor Dorothy E. Roberts, winner of the Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture Award

Professor Carl Hart Addresses Opioid Crisis

Geraldine Downey Awarded Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Grant

Diversity in Higher Education

Bridget Callaghan Awarded Two Prestigious Grants

Jailing Old Folks Makes No Sense

DEA Says No to Reforming Senseless Pot Laws

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Heritage Wall of Fame

American Psychological Association

Tannenbaun-Warner Award

City of Miami

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