2023 Society for Biological Psychiatry Gold Medal Life Time Achievement Award
2023 Klerman Award, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
2023 WUSTL Neuroscience Mentor Award
2023 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Brian Bergstrom
Senior Lecturer
Recipient of a 2023-2024 Summer Online Teaching Innovation Grant, awarded by the college of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis to develop and teach high-quality online courses that will be offered the summer of 2024 and 2025. The Summer Online Course Pilot is a two-year initiative that allows approved online courses to be offered under the online (OLI) instruction type in the A&S Summer Session. This pilot program is intentionally framed to support pedagogically innovative and student-centered online teaching and learning in the context of A&S summer course offerings, aiming to give students access to a limited number of high-quality online courses during the next two summers and create an opportunity for A&S to approach online learning in a way that is coherent with both the A&S pedagogical mission and its commitment to inclusion, equity, diversity, and access.
Pascal Boyer
Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory
Pascal Boyer was awarded the 2024 International Scientific Prize by the Fyssen Foundation. "Each year, this Prize is awarded to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the Foundation : Ethology, Psychology, Neurobiology, Anthropology, Ethnology, Human Paleontology and Archaeology." https://www.fondationfyssen.fr/en/international-scientific-prize/international-prize-thematic/
Brian Carpenter
Professor
Interim Director of Clinical Training
A research team consisting of two Wash U scholars and a collaborator from the University of Queensland were recently awarded a Global Accelerator Grant from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and the Office of the Provost. Brian Carpenter, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Karuna Thomas, a second-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program, along with professor Nancy Pachana in Australia, will be investigating factors associated with grief and bereavement following a COVID-19 death. The researchers plan to conduct a survey of several hundred people who experienced the death of someone close to them due to COVID-19 during the pandemic. With their results, they hope to learn more about the experience of grief following a complicated death experience, using findings to help develop new supports and programs for people experiencing grief following a loss.
Brian Carpenter was recently appointed Co-Director at the University's Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging.
Emily Cohen-Shikora
Senior Lecturer
Arts & Sciences First-Year Programs Teaching Award with Todd Braver and Ron Mallon
ArtSci Student Council Excellence in Teaching Award in the Social Sciences
Leonard Green
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Both Julie Bugg and Len Green were named Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). This brings the total number of Washington University faculty members in SEP to 10, out of the 281 members. The Society of Experimental Psychologists was established in 1904 “to advance psychology by arranging informal conferences on experimental psychology,” according to its website. The SEP includes experts in experimental, cognitive, perceptual, behavioral, developmental and social psychology, and in neuroscience. Julie Bugg studies the cognitive control and memory processes that support humans’ ability to focus attention in the face of distraction and accomplish goals. Len Green was one of the developers of the field of behavioral economics, along with conducting long-time research into the science of how humans and other animals make decisions. Len Green was an Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipient. The Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes area educators, and is one of the St. Louis region’s most distinguished teacher recognition programs. Honorees are chosen annually by the deans of their schools and by the university’s Center for Teaching and Learning for their achievements and leadership in teaching.
Alexander S. Hatoum
Research Assistant Professor
Gershon Paper of the Year, awarded by the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics.
Josh Jackson
Saul and Louise Rosenzweig Associate Professor of Personality Science
Received the the Walter G. Klopfer Award by the Society for Personality Assessment for distinguished contribution to the literature in personality assessment. The award was for the introduction of a novel statistical framework to examine personality change in short timescales (weeks or less rather than years), allowing for shifts or disruptions in personality structure to occur, modeled at the individual (N=1) level.
Calvin Lai
Associate Professor
In the past year, Calvin Lai won two of psychology's most prestigious awards for early-career psychologists: the Association for Psychological Science's Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology's SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award. For his achievements, he was also inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science for sustained outstanding contributions to psychology two years before when he would normally be eligible.
Zach Reagh
Assistant Professor
Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship Description from their website: "Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving the nominations of the most inventive and impactful early-career scientists across the U.S. and Canada,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “We look forward to seeing how Fellows take leading roles shaping the research agenda within their respective fields.” A Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available to young researchers, in part because so many past Fellows have gone on to become distinguished figures in science. Renowned physicists Richard Feynman and James Cronin were Sloan Research Fellows, as was mathematician John Nash, one of the fathers of modern game theory.
Roddy Roediger
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor
APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Here is the citation that appeared in American Psychologist “For outstanding contributions to understanding human memory and cognition, and his leadership in advancing experimental psychology. Through careful experimentation and scholarship, Henry L. Roediger has consistently identified and driven major areas of research that have important theoretical implications and inform our understanding of the human condition. He elucidated the surprising fallibility of human memory, revealed powerful implicit influences on memory, and showed that memory tests do more than evaluate—they facilitate future retrieval.”
Jessie Sun
Assisant Professor
APS Rising Star Award
Rebecca Treiman
Burke & Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Development
In October 2023 I gave a talk in the One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society. The topic was spelling and learning to spell.
Emily Willroth
Assistant Professor
Dr. Willroth received the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. This award recognizes outstanding achievements by early-career scholars in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research or service to the field.
Jeff Zacks
Department Chair
Edgar James Swift Professor
Jeff Zacks, the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has begun a two-year term as president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS). As president of the FABBS board of directors, Zacks will work to further the organization’s mission as a nonprofit “committed to advancing and enhancing the understanding of the mind, brain and behavioral sciences,” according to its website. The FABBS coalition includes 29 scientific societies and about 60 academic departments. https://fabbs.org/news/2024/01/qa-with-dr-jeff-zacks-incoming-fabbs-pres...
Dr. Zacks was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Marta Stojanovic
Post-doc
Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship to promote Diversity The AARF-D grant program is intended to support exceptional researchers who are engaged in their post-graduate work (i.e., postdoctoral fellows) and before they have their first independent faculty positions (i.e., Assistant Professor) and working in diverse areas of research, including basic, translational, clinical, functional and social-behavioral research. Sustained exercise and physical activity have been associated with improved cognitive performance, increases in brain volume, and reduced Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology. Despite multiple potential benefits of exercising for older adults, individuals at risk of developing AD show lower levels of physical activity engagement. Hence, it is extremely important to understand the factors that can promote sustained physical activity in individuals with preclinical AD. Elevated tau pathology has been associated with disruptions in the emotional network, including affective dysregulation, worse mood, and abnormal functional connectivity of the affective networks. In turn, worse mood and reduced positive affective response to exercise have been associated with lower levels of physical activity engagement. Hence, it is vital to directly examine whether affective factors contribute to reduced physical activity levels in preclinical AD. The overarching goal of the proposal is to test whether affective dysregulation resulting from tau pathology contributes to reduced concurrent and future physical activity in cognitively normal individuals.
Jennifer Beatty
Graduate Student
Jenn Beatty has been nominated for induction into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. She will attend the induction ceremony at Yale University in April 2024 and the subsequent ceremony at Washington University in St. Louis.
Angelique I. Delarazan
Graduate Student
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2020-2023): GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers.
Kayla Hensley
Graduate Student
I presented a poster on the effect of onset length, prefixation, and coda length on lexical stress at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading in Port Douglas, Australia in July 2023. I have been elected as the president of the Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Association (A&S GSA).
