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Violeta Rodriguez Receives Prestigious High-Risk, High-Reward NIH Early Independence Award from the NIH Office of the Director

10/08/2024 - Assistant Professor Violeta J. Rodriguez has been awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s DP5 Early Independence Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research...

Findings from clustering students' answer click and question revisit trajectory on a multiple choice question containing multiple parts, showing differences in where students tend to hesitate/make mistakes across disability groups. Bar charts and clustering plots show that students with learning disabilities tend to hesitate more than students without learning disabilities.

Assistant Professor Susu Zhang Receives Funding to Study Digital Markers of Test-Taking Processes

09/09/2024 - Assistant Professor Susu Zhang has received funding under an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) research grant awarded to Digital Promise and UIUC to conduct a project entitled, "Analysis of NAEP...

Professor Kimberly Rios and PhD Student Alexis Morales Receive Adversarial Collaboration Grant

09/03/2024 - Professor Kimberly Rios, PhD student Alexis Morales, and collaborator Michael Zarate at the University of Texas at El Paso have received a grant from the University of Pennsylvania's Adversarial...

Professors Dan Hyde and Bo Zhang Receive National Science Foundation Grant

09/03/2024 - Associate Professor Dan Hyde and co-investigator Assistant Professor Bo Zhang have received a 5-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the relationship between brain...

Professor Eleanor Seaton Receives Grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

08/20/2024 - Professor Eleanor Seaton is a Co-Investigator on a grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism examining the etiology of alcohol use among racially-ethnically diverse...

Assistant Professor Dominik Mischkowski Receives National Science Foundation Grant

08/20/2024 - Assistant Professor Dominik Mischkowski has received a National Science Foundation grant to study the role of physical pain sensitivity in regulating intimate relationship processes, specifically,...

PhD Student Mazyar Bagherian Receives APA Social Justice Grant

01/29/2024 - Social Psychology PhD student Mazyar Bagherian has received an APA Division 36 Social Justice Task Force Research Grant, to support research conducted by underrepresented students and early career...

PhD Student Erica Granz Receives Grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

01/29/2024 - Social Psychology PhD student Erica Granz has received a grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to assess the impact of different holiday decorations on perceptions of...

Sola Adeyiga Receives a New Departmental Research Scholarship

01/26/2024 - The Advanced Research Opportunity Honors Scholarship is intended to enable research opportunities for students who face financial and time constraints that otherwise might prevent them from...

Photograph of Catharine Fairbairn (left) and Kara Federmeier (right)

Professors Catharine Fairbairn and Kara Federmeier Awarded Grant From The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

12/27/2023 - Associate Professor Catharine Fairbairn and Professor Kara Federmeier have been awarded a 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. They will use EEG and ERP...

Prof. Brent Roberts Named One of the World's Most Influential Scientists

11/15/2023 - Eight University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have been named to the 2023 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes research scientists and social scientists...

PhD Student Chu Chu Receives Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship

08/23/2023 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD student Chu Chu recently received the Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship from the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). The HumRRO Meredith P. Crawford...

IPAC board director, Michael Blair, presenting the James C. Johnson Student Paper Award to 2023 winner Lingyue Li.

PhD Student Lingyue Li Receives 2023 James C. Johnson Student Paper Award

08/23/2023 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD candidate Lingyue Li recently won the 2023 James C. Johnson Student Paper Competition. This competition, organized by the International Personnel Assessment...

Graduate student Katie Kemp and Professor Thomas Kwapil receive grant from the American Psychological Foundation

02/06/2023 - Congratulations to Clinical-Community doctoral student Katie Kemp, advised by Professor of Psychology Thomas Kwapil, who has received a grant from the American Psychological Foundation to support her...

Professor Susu Zhang receives AERA-NSF grant

01/27/2023 - Congratulations to Susu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Statistics, who has been awarded an AERA-NSF grant! Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the...