Chelsea Schein, a graduate student in social psychology, is the recipient of the 2018 $10,000 Frank Research in Public Communications Prize for her peer-reviewed academic research that informs the growing discipline of public interest communications. The $10,000 prize is sponsored … Read more
Holly Shablack, a graduate student in Social Psychology, has been selected as a Dean’s Graduate Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2018-19 academic year. This fellowship is made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous … Read more
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, will be the recipient of Meredith College’s 2018 Woman of Achievement Award. Dr. Fredrickson has been selected by Meredith College as a woman of achievement for her highly cited work … Read more
10 Social Psychology graduate students were selected to receive a 2017-18 Dashiell Student Travel Award. Generous donor support to the Dashiell Research Fund allows our departmental graduate programs to support graduate student travel to conferences. Congratulations to the following students … Read more
Chelsea Schein, a graduate student in social psychology, is one of the top three finalists for the 2018 Frank Research in Public Communications Prize, which includes one $10,000 prize and two $1,500 prizes for peer-reviewed academic research that informs the … Read more
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has been ranked number 1 for the third year in a row by the Consortium of Social Science Associations for federal funding in social and behavioral research. This data comes from the National … Read more
Yen-Pin Chang, a graduate student in Social Psychology, has received an honorable mention for the 2017 Ernest C. Davenport Award for Outstanding Psychological Research by a Student Who Enhances Diversity. The purpose of the Ernest C. Davenport Award for Outstanding … Read more
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, will be awarded the 2017 TANG Prize to honor her exceptional contributions to the well-being of humanity on November 12, 2017. The TANG Foundation is a private institution established by … Read more
Jennifer MacCormack, a graduate student in Social Psychology, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute on Aging. The purpose of the Kirschstein NRSA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award is to enable promising … Read more
5 Psychology and Neuroscience graduate students are the recipients of the 2017-18 Dashiell Dissertation Startup Awards, including Yen-Ping Chang, a graduate student in Social Psychology. The Dashiell Dissertation Startup Award honors John Frederick Dashiell, founder of the Department of Psychology … Read more
