Brandon Forys wins prestigious UBC undergraduate awards
Join us in congratulating Brandon Forys for receiving the HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship, the designation of Wesbrook Scholar, and the Suedfeld Scholar Award.
Congratulations to the 2019 PURC award winners
Every year, the UBC Psychology community comes together to celebrate undergraduate student research.
Steven Barnes wins prestigious national teaching award
Steven Barnes received a 2019 3M National Teaching Fellow Award for his leadership in enhancing post-secondary teaching excellence and for superlative undergraduate teaching.
Michael Barrus receives 2018 Demetri Papageorgis Teaching Assistant Award
This award recognizes teaching assistants who make outstanding contributions to student education in the Department of Psychology.
Motivation, decision-making, and telling our stories anyway
Leili Mortazavi had hoped to present her research at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in November 2018, but due to a travel restriction was not able to join her colleagues in the United States to present her work.
Inaugural winner of the Mary Whiton Calkins Undergraduate Award
This new award was created to honour Mary Whiton Calkins, an American psychologist and philosopher who was among the first generation of women to enter into psychology at the turn of the 20th century.
Fall 2018 Grant Opportunities and Deadlines
Opportunities SSHRC Explore Grant/Arts Research – Fall 2018 Out of Cycle Program The grant provides support to faculty in need of seed funding for collaborative research and for small projects. SSHRC Explore Grants provide research funding of up to $4,000. This is an additional out of cycle competition due to available funding this year. Successful […]
Dr. Paul Hewitt seeks participants for perfectionism study
The need to be perfect, or appear to be perfect may be seen as a positive trait by some, but it can take a toll on mental health and require psychological treatment. Dr. Paul Hewitt, professor in the department of psychology, sat down with UBC News to discuss what perfectionism is, why it can be […]
New research: Men place less value on care-oriented careers like nursing
Men assign less importance to care-oriented careers than women do, possibly because men internalize different values than women, suggests new research from Katharina Block, a PhD student in social psychology at UBC.
Bagels with Ben builds community among undergraduate students
An alumnus of UBC Psychology’s undergraduate and graduate programs, Dr. Cheung, created Bagels with Ben, a fun and social activity to engage and include students who might otherwise feel lost in the masses.