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Natasha Parikh Receives Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Tuesday, January 15, 2019Congratulations to P&N Ph.D. student Natasha Parikh, recipient of the 2019 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. The review committee of deans, graduate faculty, staff, and graduate students chose Parikh and three other graduate students who best exemplify the characteristics of effective... Read More »
Reflections: Boston University Conference for Language Development (BUCLD)
Thursday, December 20, 2018Members of P&N's Bergelson Lab, led by Dr. Elika Bergelson, recently attended the 43rd annual Boston University Conference for Language Development (BUCLD.) Undergraduate RAs Sarah Yang and Katya Khlystova were supported by travel awards from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience... Read More »
Elika Bergelson Receives DIBS Research Incubator Award
Monday, December 10, 2018Congratulations to P&N's Elika Bergelson for receiving a 2018-2019 Research Incubator Award from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The awards provide seed funding to support collaborative brain science research for projects of exceptional innovation and broad significance to the field... Read More »
Alisa Bedrov Receives 2018-2019 Jerome S. Bruner Award
Friday, November 16, 2018The Duke Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is pleased to announce that Duke senior Alisa Bedrov is this year's winner of the Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. A double major in Psychology and Russian, Bedrov is in the process of applying to PhD... Read More »
Bilbo, Bergelson Receive Bass Connections Professorships
Wednesday, November 14, 2018Congratulations to P&N's Staci Bilbo and Elika Bergelson, who have received Bass Connections professorships. They are among seven Duke professors across three Duke schools receiving these named professorships. Bass Connections professorships recognize faculty whose scholarship and teaching... Read More »
P&N Person of the Week: John Blackshear
Monday, November 5, 2018The Prince of Duke, Psychological Past and Present John Blackshear lives on East Campus as a Faculty in Residence in Trinity Dorm, photo by Chen John Blackshear burst into the emergency room and yelled that he was having a heart attack. It wasn’t the first time this happened. The... Read More »
Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists Conference Reflections
Monday, November 5, 2018The Duke Identity and Diversity Lab, led by Dr. Sarah Gaither, had an amazing showing with other Duke P&N members at the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologist Conference this year. Their day started off with lab manager Joshua Perlin's first ever data blitz talk on prosocial... Read More »
P&N Graduate Students and Postdocs Receive Research Seed Grants
Tuesday, October 30, 2018Psychology & Neuroscience is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the Graduate / Postdoctoral research awards. These students and fellows each received awards of up to $5,000 to spark novel research projects and to connect their research ideas to faculty and undergraduate students in our... Read More »
P&N Person of the Week: Terrie Moffitt
Sunday, October 28, 2018Moffitt pictured in blue frames, although she rotates approximately four frames at any given time, photo by Chen Duke Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Terrie Moffitt was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a leading organization providing advice on health,... Read More »
The Duke NMU/SNP Neuroscience Mentoring Program
Tuesday, October 23, 2018The Duke NMU/SNP Neuroscience Mentoring Program Are you a freshman interested in neuroscience? Unsure as to how to navigate the many neuroscience opportunities at Duke? Would you like to learn firsthand from an upperclassman mentor how to find a... Read More »