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Beth Loftus talk scheduled for March 7

Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Univ. of California at Irvine, will be presenting her talk entitled, “The Fiction of Memory,” on Monday, March 7, 2022, at 7 p.m. on zoom. Loftus’s pioneering work over several decades has explored the fallibility of memory and people’s susceptibility to contextual factors that systematically alter recall of events.

Here is a blurb for her talk: Nationally, roughly two-thirds of DNA-based exonerations of wrongfully convicted persons involve misidentification of perpetrators by eyewitnesses. In this lecture, Elizabeth Loftus, recently described by the New Yorker as “the most influential female psychologist of the twentieth century,” will discuss the state of knowledge regarding eyewitness misidentification and the implications for criminal justice policy and practices.

Dr. Loftus’s lecture is part of the lecture series, entitled the “Dialogues on Democracy” series, that Miami’s Menard Family Center for Democracy is sponsoring again this spring semester. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to intend, but pre-registration is required:

https://miamioh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9avs1wknRIOGp3AWkq0pHA

Natalee Price receives Graduate Student Achievement Award

Congratulations goes to graduate student Natalee Price for being recognized for the publication of her master’s thesis in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Her study examines complex longitudinal pathways among maternal emotion dysregulation, emotion socialization, toddler emotion regulatory behaviors, and child anxiety outcomes. Congrats Natalee!

Price, N., & Kiel, E. (2021). Longitudinal links among mother and child emotion regulation, maternal emotion socialization, and child anxiety. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00804-1

Lauren Jones receives Graduate Student Achievement Award

Congratulations goes to graduate student Lauren Jones, for being recognized for her recent publication in Journal of Affective Disorders. This paper provides the first systematic review of the literature on maternal anxiety and overprotective parenting. Congrats Lauren!

Jones, L. B., Hall, B.A., & Kiel, E. J. (2021). Systematic review of the link between maternal anxiety and overprotection. Journal of Affective Disorders, 295, 541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.065

Feven Ogbaselase receives Graduate Student Achievement Award

Congratulations goes to graduate student Feven Ogbaselase, who was awarded a Graduate Student Achievement Award recognizing her research examining the longitudinal effects of family emotional climate on teenagers’ depression via specific emotion regulation strategies. This recognition was given for the resulting publication of her first-author paper appearing in the APA journal Emotion. Congrats Feven!

Ogbaselase, F. A., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Indirect effect of family climate on adolescent depression through emotion regulatory processes. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000899

Aaron Luebbe receives top Miami graduate mentoring honor

Congratulations go to our own Aaron Luebbe, who was selected as a recipient of Miami’s 2020-21 Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring. Aaron joins a long and distinguished list of our psychology faculty who have been recognized with the highest honor for graduate mentoring at the university.

He will be presented with the award on Friday, November 4, at 2:30 p.m., at the Graduate Research Forum awards ceremony (held in the Armstrong Student Center Pavilion). Faculty are invited to walk over to Armstrong, meeting in the PSYC Atrium and walking over to Armstrong at 2:15.

For those who would prefer to celebrate virtually, the event will be available on zoom: https://miamioh.zoom.us/s/83390824669 (passcode: 044550)

Faculty leave requests for AY2022-23

Faculty who would like to request a Faculty Improvement Leave or an Assigned Research Appointment leave for next academic year (i.e., AY2022-23) should visit the Academic Personnel website for more information about policies and for relevant application forms: https://www.miamioh.edu/academic-affairs/academic-personnel/my-career/professional-leave/

If you wish to request a leave for the next AY, please discuss your plans with Allen before Friday, October 15. We will need completed applications submitted to the department (to Dawn) by the end of the day on Friday, October 22. All leave requests are then forwarded by the department to the College for additional consideration.

The College would like to remind faculty that they should meet the following three requirements in their applications for consideration:
1)  The person requesting a leave should include a 50-60 word abstract to the beginning of their 1-3 page summary regarding their leave request.
2)  A current CV is required for the application.
3)  If a faculty member has had a leave granted in the past 10 years, they must have completed leave reports for those leaves to be eligible for additional consideration.

Anna Radke and Jenn Quinn receive R21 award

Congratulations goes to Anna Radke and Jenn Quinn, who are Co-Is on a recently awarded $199K grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for a project entitled, “Sex-specific effects of infant trauma on adult alcohol drinking: Role of amygdala intercalated neurons.” The project will run from September 2021 through August 2023, and it will use animal models to study mechanisms by which early life adversity may increase sensitivity to stressors and increase drinking in adulthood. Congrats to Anna and Jenn!

Jeff Hunger receives R01 NIH award

Congratulations goes to Jeff Hunger, who is a Co-I on a recently awarded $1.26M grant from the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute for a project entitled, “Obesity Stigma and Health Behavior: An Experimental Approach.” The project will run from July 2021 through July 2024, and it will examine the connections between social isolation, weight stigma, and poorer health behaviors. The project is a collaboration with Dr. Janet Tomiyama in UCLA’s Department of Psychology. Congrats Jeff!

Tech Fee proposals due date Sept 20

Requests for Student Technology Fee proposals are due to CAS by September 20, 2021. There will be a virtual information session held on Friday, September 10, 2021, from 9-11 a.m. If you wish to apply to a Tech Fee proposal, please check with Allen so he can be sure these proposals are on college’s radar. For more details, please review the website on Tech Fee guidelines.

Clinical program reaccredited by APA until 2031!

Following a successful review process (including extensive documentation, a virtual April site visit, and responses to follow-up queries), we are pleased to announce that our doctoral program in Clinical Psychology was reaccredited by the American Psychology Association until 2031. Having a 10-year accreditation outcome is an outstanding achievement, reflecting the hard work of the faculty, staff, and students of our clinical program, especially Director of Clinical Training Aaron Luebbe. We are so pleased about this well-deserved outcome and very proud of the clinical program and the hard work required to make this accreditation process so successful! Thanks to Aaron and everyone involved!