Welcome to the official Department of Psychology newsletter! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!
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Katrina Rbeiz
Third Year Graduate Student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Katrina Rbeiz has been selected as one of 5 the new Robert Penn Warren Graduate Fellows. The Graduate Theme Fellowship brings together a small cohort of students from across Vanderbilt to explore the Robert Penn Warren Center’s annual theme. Through shared readings and works-in-progress, Graduate Theme Fellows enhance their own scholarship while exploring the interdisciplinary connections among fellow colleagues’ projects. Congratulations Katrina!
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Jordan Gunn
Ph.D. candidate, Jordan Gunn received the College of Arts & Science Outstanding Student Teaching Assistant Award. Established in 1985, this award is given each year for exceptionally effective classroom and/or laboratory instruction by a graduate teaching assistant. The Committee on Graduate Education selects an award winner from departmental nominations. The winner receives a cash prize and an engraved plaque. Jordan also was awarded the William F Hodges Teaching Assistant Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievement as a teaching assistant by a graduate student in the Department of Psychology. Congratulations Jordan!
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Clinical Internship Match Results!The following clinical students successfully matched for clinical internship:
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Leighton Durham
Kaczkurkin Lab
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC-IPP)
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Kaczkurkin Lab
National Psych Training Consortium - Central Springfield, MO
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Olatunji Lab
Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital Belmont, MA
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Park Lab
National Psych Training Consortium - Central Springfield, MO
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Hollon Lab
University of Illinois at Chicago-Psychiatry Chicago, IL
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Timothy McNamara
Vanderbilt University has named Timothy P. McNamara, as Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science. McNamara’s appointment for a two-year term, announced by C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, follows McNamara’s exemplary service as interim dean since July 2023. McNamara's appointment is effective July 1 pending approval from the Board of Trust Compensation Committee, currently holds the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Social and Natural Sciences. He will advance the mission of Arts and Science with priorities that include pursuing capital projects that provide research support and student support, further expanding the college’s portfolios in research and creative expression, implementing the college’s new core curriculum, recruiting new faculty, and supporting and recognizing existing faculty. Read more.
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Isabel Gauthier
Isabel Gauthier, Vice Chair of the Department of Psychology, was awarded The Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring award! This award was established in 2022; this annual award honoring outstanding mentorship affirms the Graduate School’s mission of helping our students reach their full potential as scholars and human beings. Read more.
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"The Patient Perspective on Colectomy for Recurrent Diverticulitis: A Qualitative Study."
In collaboration with VUMC, Washington University School of Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania, Alexander Hawkins, David Penson, Timothy Geiger, Kemberlee Bonnet, Matthew Mutch, Lilias Maguire, David Schlundt, and Russell Rothman conducted a qualitative study utilizing focus groups of patients with recurrent diverticulitis. Using an iterative inductive/deductive approach, they developed a conceptual framework to capture the major themes identified in the coded qualitative data. Patients viewed the decision to undergo colectomy through three major themes: their beliefs about surgery, their psychosocial context, and moderating factors that influence participant choice to undergo surgery. This knowledge is essential both for clinicians counseling patients who are considering colectomy and for researchers studying the process to optimize care for recurrent diverticulitis. Read more.
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Blake LabA new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals uniform suppression depth regardless of target complexity or salience. Read More.
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Bastos LabThe new study shows that rapid gamma waves often originate in outer layers, whereas slower alpha and beta waves arise in the deeper ones. Read More.
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Welcome Tiffany!Meet Tiffany Auer, our Program Specialist! Tiffany recently moved to Nashville after living in Florida for 14 years. She moved with her boyfriend Evan, corgi Ellie, and Siamese cat Miso. She spent 6 years teaching at the elementary level and moved up to higher education shortly before the move. Tiffany likes to spend her downtime reading a good book, lounging by the pool, or doing something crafty.
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Welcome Sydnie!Say hello to our new Grants Specialist, Sydnie Rathert! She is from Hendersonville, TN and has been married to her husband for 5 and a half years. They have one son together named Kai and he is one and a half years old. They also have a 6 year old golden retriever named Fisher who is their best bud! Sydnie enjoys traveling, baking, cooking, eating good food, exercise, the outdoors, gardening, riding my bike, reading, binge watching reality TV, a good patio, and hanging out with her family.
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Festchrift 2024A one time event celebrating Centennial Professor of Psychology, Randolph Blake!
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| Commencement Celebration 2024
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Awards were presented to students in celebration of Commencement! Read more.
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The Park Lab stayed busy during the Schizophrenia International Research Society Congress, hosted in Florence, Italy this past April. Julia Lebovitz, Yunlai Gui, and Hanson Lee each presented posters highlighting their research on topics like peripersonal space, dissociation, and prosody. Katrina Rbeiz and Tatiana Baxter each delivered a presentation as part of individual symposiums to discuss their work in loneliness, social disconnection, and psychosis risk.
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Dr. Maxcey’s Maymester PSY 1200 General Psychology class went to Adventure Science Center (ASC) and the Night Sky Planetarium show. Their field trip was prompted by the lecture on Stress, Health, and Adjustment, which led the students to connect an interest in the universe and/or sky to their own happiness and/or spiritual practices. None of the students had been to a planetarium show at ASC before, and gave it 12/10 stars!
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Dr. Maxcey's students learning about sensastion and perception — the anatomy of the eye by dissecting cow eyes!
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