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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…
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…
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…
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.
Professor Larisa Heiphetz has been awarded the Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Research Contributions Award, given to faculty who have "distinguished themselves as researchers and scholars, as evidenced through research, publications, and scholarly activities."