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Congratulations to Kaylen Wood (Psychology BS – 2012) for being named one of the 2017 25 Emerging Training Leaders by Training magazine, the source for professional development!

We were recently notified that the UCA chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, was selected as a 2016 – 2017 Model Chapter award. Only 42 of more than 1,200 chapters internationally receive this distinction. This is the 10th consecutive year that our chapter has received this distinction.

Congrats to the Psi Chi Officers and Dr. Charlton!

Varghese, F. P., Anderson, K. M., Cummings, D. L., & Fitzgerald, E. (in press). The offender job search self-efficacy scale: Development and initial validation. Psychological Services

Congrats to both!

We are excited that Dr. Alberto Soto has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology in our department. Dr. Soto will begin this Fall semester and will be an integral member of our Counseling Psychology graduate programs.

Matthew Pickard – Diagnostic Overshadowing, Essentialism, and Intellectual Disability: Lay Persons’

Nick Mitrani – Examining the Relationship Between Victimization History, Resiliency Factors, and Trauma-Related Symptoms Using Structural Equation Modeling – Chair: Dr. Kevin Rowell

Congratulations to Russell House (BS Psych 2006; MS Counseling Psych 2012) for being accepted into the Human Factors and Applied Cognition PhD program at North Carolina State University!

Congrats to Dr. Bill Lammers, Dr. Art Gillaspy, and former undergraduate student Felicia Hancock for publishing an article in the journal Teaching of Psychology.

Lammers, W. J., Gillaspy Jr., J. A., & Hancock, F. (2017). Predicting academic success with early, middle, and late semester assessment of student-instructor rapport. Teaching of Psychology, 44, 145-149.