News and Events

Graduate Students Win Travel Awards

May 1, 2012 in All

Congratulations to the following graduate student recipients of travel awards to professional conferences during summer 2012: Anne Hubbard, Alexander Yu, Troy Moles, Marciana Ramos, Elizabeth Wrape, Justine Chatterton, Amber Wright, Troy Rieck, Nicole Stillo, Elissa Woodruff, Estee Marchesani, Bashir Abdullah, Alexandra Wike, Gurminder Sanhu, Kimberly Lewis, Joey Ramaeker, Allison Wilkerson, and Katherine Marczyk. 

2012 Department of Psychology Awards

March 6, 2012 in All

 We are pleased to announce the following 2012 Departmental Award Recipients:

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award and Recipient of the Louis C. Weber Scholarship
Sarah Forsyth

Psi Chi Award 
Jenlyn Meyers

Outstanding Graduate Student Award and Recipient of the Charlotte Friedersdorff Boyd Memorial Scholarship
Nate Gillard

Bonney Honor Student in Psychology
Kellye Schiffner Carver

Ladenberger Honor Student in Psychology
Bashir Abdullah

Anna Wright Memorial Scholarship
Jennifer Steadham

Dr. G. Frank Lawlis Scholarship
Karen Benson

Frank Collins Memorial Scholarship
Sara Pollard

Ernest H. Harrell Memorial Award
Chris Heath

UNT Teaching Fellow Nominations
· David Gonzalez
· Chris Heath
· Eliot Lopez

Please join us in congratulating these deserving students!

Award-winning Graduate Student, Laura Cardona, Talks About Her Research

February 13, 2012 in All

Laura Cardona, a doctoral candidate in the Clinical program (Dr. Craig Neumann, dissertation chair), was the 2011 recipient of the Impact Award. This recognition is awarded by Toulouse Graduate School to the graduate student whose work "shows the greatest evidence of international scope and application." Click below to see a recent interview with Laura:


Untitled from Toulouse Graduate School on Vimeo.

Bonney Lecture 2012

January 23, 2012 in All

Health Interventions with Underrepresented Populations: What Must You Ask Before You Begin?

The literature on ethnicity and health and disease has been growing rapidly lately. However it is not clear what these data tell us about how best to work with these populations. This talk will describe how to use what we know about underrepresented populations to provide better assessments. 

Elizabeth A. Klonoff, Ph.D., ABPP. A clinical and health psychologist, she currently serves as Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University (SDSU) and Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego.

February 10, 2012, 10:00 AM

University Union Silver Eagle Suite

Student selected for Diversity Conference

October 19, 2011 in Counseling Psychology
Bashir Abdullah of the Counseling Psychology program has been selected to attend the COMPACT for Faculty Diversity in Atlanta, GA. The conference is an invitation only event by the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. The Compact for Faculty Diversity goal is to increase the number of minority students who earn doctoral degrees and become college and university faculty.