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Psychology Student Wudasse Berke Receives Summer Fellowship

March 18, 2014
Psychology student Wudasse Berke received an American Psychological Association Summer Science Fellowship to study at George Mason University from June 21–August 2, 2014.
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Research Participation Opportunity: College Student Attitudes Towards Mental Health

March 10, 2014
Researchers at IIT are investigating college student attitudes towards mental health.
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New Psychology Section Added

August 28, 2013
For students seeking a social science general education course, the Department of Psychology has added a new section of PSYC221: Human Behavior, Growth and Learning (section 4) which will be held from 8:35-9:50 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Psychology Assistant Professor Nicole Ditchman is interviewed about her work looking at stigma toward intellectual disability in an online article on DugDug, a website that aims to present academic research in an understandable way to casual readers.

August 27, 2013
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Psychology’s Patrick Corrigan Awarded the Prix Perspectives 2013

July 29, 2013
Patrick Corrigan, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and his group won the Prix Perspectives 2013 in Zurich for their work on the Coming Out Proud (COP) program. COP is meant to help people with serious mental illness deal with stigma. The prestigious prize includes an award for 12,000 swiss francs to conduct a randomized controlled trial in Switzerland.
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A study by IIT College of Psychology Center on Adherence and Self-Determination Program Director Kirstin Kosyluk was published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health(AJPH), devoted entirely to the problem of mental illness stigma, Psychiatric News reports.

June 5, 2013
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A new study in Clinical Gerontologist showing that elderly suffering from depression are the most vulnerable to fraud, conducted by Wayne State University’s Institute of Gerontology, was conducted in collaboration with IIT’s College of Psychology, UPI reports. Psychology graduate student Laurie Stickney is co-author of the study.

April 29, 2013
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Psychology Professor Ron Landis Publishes Research Methods Book

April 29, 2013
Ronald S. Landis, Nambury S. Raju Professor of Psychology, recently published the co-edited book (with Jose M. Cortina) Modern Research Methods for the Study of Behavior in Organizations (Routledge Academic, 2013). The book is part of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Frontiers Series.
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IIT Students Excel at Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 15, 2013
More than 160 undergraduates in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, economics, humanities and engineering, among others, and from nearly a dozen institutions participated in the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium held on April 6 at the Hermann Hall Conference Center on IIT Main Campus. IIT students excelled at the annual event, winning in three categories: Overall Poster Presentation—Barrett Leslie Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology—Catalina Rivera Math, Computer Sciences, Engineering, Physics—Xin Zheng: A Novel Approach in Detecting the Normal and Shear Forces at the Fingertips with Minimal Hysteresis
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DNAinfo visits IIT for a story about Chicago’s smallest public park, home to George Segal’s Man on the Bench sculpture on IIT’s main campus, and talks with Psychology Dean Ellen Mitchell about former IIT President Lew Collens’s going away party, at which the dean was disguised as a replica of the statue on stage.

February 6, 2013
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College of Psychology Archive

Psychology Student Wudasse Berke Receives Summer Fellowship

Research Participation Opportunity: College Student Attitudes Towards Mental Health

New Psychology Section Added

Psychology Assistant Professor Nicole Ditchman is interviewed about her work looking at stigma toward intellectual disability in an online article on DugDug, a website that aims to present academic research in an understandable way to casual readers.

Psychology’s Patrick Corrigan Awarded the Prix Perspectives 2013

A study by IIT College of Psychology Center on Adherence and Self-Determination Program Director Kirstin Kosyluk was published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health(AJPH), devoted entirely to the problem of mental illness stigma, Psychiatric News reports.

Psychology Professor Ron Landis Publishes Research Methods Book

IIT Students Excel at Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium

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