News

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate students Dillon McGovern (Behavioral Neuroscience, mentored by David Root) and Cindy Villanueva (Clinical, mentored by June Gruber) were awarded highly competitive research fellowships.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience College Professor of Distinction Emeritus Jerry W. Rudy has had a research fund established in his honor.

CU Neuroscience major Anna McTigue, also majoring in MCD Biology, was awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Sona Dimidjian (Clinical, Sapp Family Endowed Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence and Director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute) was in the news, being interviewed by a couple of media outlets regarding the shooting massacre at the Table Mesa King Sooper's last week on how to cope with the extreme emotional distress the event caused.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate students Cynthia Villanueva (Clinical, mentored by June Gruber) and Renée Martin-Willett (Clinical, mentored by Cinnamon Bidwell) authored an op-ed piece for the most recent "student driven publication" edition of the Society for Research in Psychopathology newsletter.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Assistant Professor Zoe Donaldson (Behavioral Neuroscience; she also has an appointment in MCDB) is in the news. She will be participating in a roundtable real time discussion about the “Science of Attraction” on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 2 p.m. MST.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor and Director of the Crown Institute Sona Dimidjian (Clinical) participated in Chancellor Phil DiStefano's "State of the Campus" video chat recently.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience gradate student Jenny Cole (Social, mentored by Leaf Van Boven) was in the popular media, appearing in an article in the Boulder Weekly about a collaboration between herself and a local artist (Amy Hoagland, who is herself a graduate at CU Boulder) about the intersection of art and science.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate students Chelsea Brown (Cognitive, mentored by Eliana Colunga) and Anna Gilmour (Clinical, mentored by Mark Whisman) received CARTSS awards in the amount of $1500 to further their research.

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Associate Professor June Gruber (Clinical) was in the news regarding a new online class she is launching in February called #TalkMentalillness which is meant to help address the increasing mental health crisis due to the pandemic.