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News & Recent Events
Professor Richeson and the SPCL have moved to Yale. Please click here for more information regarding how to contact Professor Richeson.
C Congratulations to Julian Rucker, Natalie Daumeyer, Chris Petsko, & Alexandra Garr-Schultz on their successful Master's thesis defenses! Dorainne Levy and Alissa Mrazek passed their dissertation defenses with flying colors! Congratulations, Dr. Levy and Dr. Mrazek! Professor Richeson was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences during an April 30th ceremony in Washington, DC.
Julian Rucker and Alexandra Garr-Schultz have been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Professor Richeson gave a Topical Lecture on the social psychology of shifting racial demographics in the US at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dorainne Levy has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University!
Dorainne Levy and Vida Manzo have each been awarded a Graduate Research Grant for their dissertation research! Julian Rucker, Christopher Petsko, Alexandra Garr-Schultz, and Ryan Lei received travel awards for the SPSP 2016 Conference!
Ryan Lei has been awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Grant from the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)!
Spring 2015
The SPCL wishes a warm goodbye to our graduating seniors, Jazz Stephens and Tricia Pendergrast! Alissa Mrazek has been awarded a Graduate Research Grant for her dissertation research!The National Academy of Sciences has elected Professor Richeson as one of its newest members.Professor Richeson has been named a winner of the 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship!Julian Rucker, has been recognized with an honorable mention in the National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and named an alternate in the Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship Competition. Alexandra Garr-Schultz has been recognized with an honorable mention in the Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship Competition.
Winter 2015
Professor Richeson recently published an OpEd in the Washington Post on the value of race-related dialogues and cross-race interaction.Former SPCL postdoctoral fellow Mary Murphy won the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation! Professor Richeson co-wrote an OpEd with Historian Shana Bernstein on the value of multiracial coalitions. Former student, Vani Mathur accepted an Assistant Professor position at Texas A&M! Congratulations, Vani! Former SPCL grad Maureen Craig accepted an Assistant Professor postion at NYU, starting in July 2016! Congratulations, Maureen!
Fall 2014
Professor Richeson's OpEd is featured in The Boston Globe, and SPCL research is mentioned on NPR! The SPCL welcomes new graduate students Natalie Daumeyer and Julian Rucker! We also welcome back Michelle Rheinschmidt-Same as a postdoctoral fellow and lab manager! Lauren Foley will begin a Master's program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. We thank Lauren for her hard work as the lab manager and wish her the best in her program!
Summer 2014
Congratulations to Ryan Lei on receiving a Graduate Cognitive Science Fellowship!
Spring 2014
Hina Muneeruddin's poster presentation of her thesis won 2nd place for the social science & humanities section of the 2014 Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition! Alissa Mrazek passed her Masters Thesis Defense! Congrats, Alissa! Former student, Vani Mathur's research on racial biases in pain perception is featured as a "journal club" article on the journal Pain's website. Maureen passed her dissertation defense with flying colors and is now Dr. Maureen Craig! Congrats, Mo! Maureen will begin a postdoctoral fellow position at The Ohio State University this summer! Maureen's research on the effects of shifting racial demographics in the United States on White Americans' racial attitudes and political ideology is receiving a lot of media attention! Vida Manzo passed her Masters Thesis Defense! Congrats, Vida! Alissa Mrazek won a research grant from the DRRC.
Winter 2014Congratulations to Alissa Mrazek for passing her qualifying exams! She is now officially a Doctoral candidate. Maureen's research is highlighted in a Huffington Post article! Fall 2013Congratulations to Vida Manzo for passing her qualifying exams! She is now officially a Doctoral candidate. Maureen received a Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) conference travel award. Congrats, Mo! SPCL RA and thesis student, Hina Muneeruddin, received an Undergraduate Research Grant (URG) from Northwestern University. Good work, Hina! Summer 2013 Congratulations to our RA graduates Erinma Ukoha, Laura Venn, Emmanuel Anderson, and Sydney Smith. We wish you the best of luck on all future endeavors! Congratulations to SROP intern Jasmine Koech for doing a great job in the lab and giving an excellent presentation. Best of luck on your senior thesis! Maureen Craig got a Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grant-in-Aid funded and an International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) travel award! Spring 2013Our former postdoc, Mary Murphy, was named a 2013 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science! Vida Manzo wins the Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship! Dorainne Levy and Vida Manzo won admission into the Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISP) program taking place in the summer of 2013 at UC Davis! Congrats guys! SPCL undergraduate Research Assistant, Ellyn Peña, won the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship! Katie Rotella passed her dissertation defense with flying colors and is now Dr. Katie Rotella! Congrats Katie! Winter 2013Professor Richeson was named John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair during an Investiture ceremony on February 15th! Former lab manager, Shanette Porter, accepted a position as a senior research analyst at the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR)! Maureen Craig won and accepted an American Bar Foundation Fellowship for next year! Congrats Mo! Alissa Mrazek won a research grant from the National Science Foundation to study in Singapore this summer! Fall 2012Vida Manzo won a travel grant from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology! Congrats Vida! The SPCL welcomes our new lab manager Lauren Foley to the lab!Laura Venn won an Undergraduate Reseach Grant for her honors thesis work!Alissa Mrazek won a research grant from the Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC) at NU's Kellogg School of Management!Summer 2012The SPCL welcomes summer RAs Hinasahar Muneeruddin, Christine Daly, and Laura Venn to the lab!Spring 2012Dr. Richeson appears on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC!Destiny Peery accepts a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Duke Law School!Dorainne Levy wins a Ford Foundation Fellowship!Dorainne Levy wins a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!Winter 2012Maureen Craig's research proposal for the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) program is accepted to be fielded!Fall 2011The SPCL welcomes visiting graduate student Stacey Sasaki to the lab!Dorainne Levy wins a travel award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology!Summer 2011 The SPCL welcomes summer RAs Melissa Hyre, Jermaine Dictado, and Lydia Wilson to the lab!
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