Nicholas Hindy, PhD, has won a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an open-source, web-based platform for neuroanatomy instruction in neuroscience courses. The $400,000 grant marks a collaboration between the College of Charleston Department of Psychology and the Department of Computer Science. Psychology professor Anthony Bishara, PhD, and computer science professor Ellie Lovellette, PhD, will team up with Hindy on the grant.
The diversity, equity, and inclusion division of the Academy of Management has awarded Michelle “Mikki” Hebl, PhD, the Advancing Women in Leadership Award, acknowledging her contributions to education to help the development of women in leadership. The Academy of Management is a global professional organization for management and organization scholars. Hebl is the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of Psychology and a professor of management at Rice University. Hebl’s research focuses on diversity and discrimination-related issues.
Nicholas Grant, PhD, is the first psychologist to be selected as a fellow for the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program, an 11-month fellowship focused on leadership development for those who work to advance health equity, hosted by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University. Grant’s fellowship project focuses on increasing access to gender-affirming care for U.S. active-duty military service members in the Hawaii Region.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a 5-year, $1.86 million grant to Florida State University psychologist Adam Dewan, PhD, to study how a little-understood part of the brain affects the sense of smell. Dewan’s team will investigate the dorsal tenia tecta to find out how it’s connected to other parts of the brain, how neurons within this region respond to odor, and its overall contribution to our sense of smell.
Tricia Leahey, PhD, professor in the University of Connecticut’s Department of Allied Health Sciences, has been named the permanent director of the university’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP). InCHIP is a large multidisciplinary university-wide research institute with more than 120 principal investigators from nearly every school and college across the university. Leahey is a renowned clinical health psychologist and obesity treatment researcher who has focused on developing affordable lifestyle interventions for obesity treatment.
John Blackshear, PhD, will join the University of Rochester as its first vice president for student life on Jan. 1, 2024. At Rochester, Blackshear will oversee the creation of a new division dedicated to student success and developing a campus culture of support and inclusion. Prior to this, Blackshear came to Duke in 2001 as a staff psychologist with Counseling and Psychological Services. He has also taught forensic psychology in Duke’s psychology department for 13 years.
The Royal Society of Canada and its members have elected nine psychologists to its newest class of fellows and members of the RSC College. They are: Paul Bloom, PhD, University of Toronto, Marie-Claude Geoffroy, PhD, McGill University, Robert Gerlai, PhD, University of Toronto Mississauga, Igor Grossman, PhD, University of Waterloo, David Hodgins, PhD, University of Calgary, Debra Pepler, PhD, York University, Nick Rule, PhD, University of Toronto, Victoria Talwar, PhD, McGill University, and Monnica Williams, PhD, University of Ottawa.
