News
P&N and CNAP First Year Festival 2017
Monday, May 1, 2017Congratulations to our students for a successful P&N/CNAP first year festival, which was held Friday in Perkins 217. The following students presented a diverse array of research topics. If you missed it, click on the presentation titles below to see videos of each presentation. Christina... Read More »
Rick Hoyle wins Duke University's 2017 Sullivan Award
Monday, May 1, 2017Congratulations to P&N Professor Rick Hoyle, who was named the 2017 faculty winner of Duke’s Sullivan Award. Dr. Hoyle was cited for his commitment to service and community, at Duke and beyond: https://today.duke.edu/2017/04/spirituality-and-service-guide-sullivan-award-winners “There... Read More »
Dr. Kenneth Gergen wins Duke Graduate School's 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award
Tuesday, April 25, 2017Congratulations to P&N PhD alumnus Dr. Kenneth Gergen, who has won the 2017 Distinguished Alumni award from Duke Graduate School. https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/social-psychologist-gergen-named-2017-distinguished-alumni-award-recipient Gergen, who grew up in Durham, is a prominent... Read More »
Is "Abnormal Psychology" Really all that Abnormal?
Monday, April 17, 2017P&N Clinical Graduate Student Jonathan Schaefer recently wrote a blog post giving an evidence-based argument against stigma in mental Health. It was recently published on the APA Society of Clinical Psychology's website: http://www.div12.org/is-abnormal-psychology-really-all-that-abnormal... Read More »
Tomasello Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Thursday, April 13, 2017Congratulations to P&N Professor Michael Tomasello, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tomasello, the James F. Bonk Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, joined the P&N faculty in 2016. He is also the Director of the Max Planck Institute for... Read More »
Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?
Monday, April 3, 2017For P&N doctoral students, the Major Area Paper (MAP) is the first major milestone in the student's PhD program. For clinical doctoral student Kate MacDuffie, her MAP turned into a published article, with co-author Tim Strauman, and was recently cited in an APA blog post. "This work was... Read More »
Welcome Bridgette Martin Hard
Friday, March 31, 2017Duke's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience welcomes Dr. Bridgette Martin Hard, who will be joining P&N as an Associate Professor of the Practice on July 1, 2017. Dr. Hard received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University and currently leads Stanford’s Psychology One Program... Read More »
Childhood exposure to lead affects IQ decades later, study finds
Tuesday, March 28, 2017P&N Clinical Doctoral Student Aaron Reuben of the Moffitt and Caspi Group is the first author of a study finding that childhood exposure to lead can affect an adult decades later, impairing cognitive development. Read about the story in NPR, Reuters Health, and the Washington Post. A .pdf... Read More »
P&N Doctoral Students Receive Fellowships
Monday, March 20, 2017Congratulations to the following P&N doctoral students who have received 2017-2018 Duke Graduate School Fellowships: Nadia Brashier- Philip J. Baugh Fellowship Ali Giusto- Dissertation Research Travel Award: International and Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Fellowship... Read More »
Brenda Yang wins Duke's 2017 Merritt Award for Science Journalism
Friday, March 10, 2017Congratulations to P&N Grad Student Brenda Yang, recipient of Duke's 2017 Merritt Award for Science Journalism. Yang won the award for her July 2016 Scientific American article "Are Our Scientific Heroes Too Heroic?," according to the announcement posted on the Pratt School of Engineering... Read More »