Psychologist Patricia Frazier heads a stress and trauma lab that helps college students cope with stress.

The Department of Psychology is delighted to announce that Professor Chun Wang, who was newly promoted in April to Associate Professor with Tenure, has selected by the Provost's Office as a McKnight Presidential Fellow, an award given this year to five newly tenured faculty members in consideration of their prior accomplishments. ​

Meet the three psychology undergraduate students—Abigail Barthel, Shelby Wilcox, and Feng Gooi—who received the Sharon Borine Award in fall 2016. These awards are given each semester and acknowledge undergraduate seniors whose final submissions for their major project course are of the highest quality.

Associate Professor Cheryl Olman started a new class that pairs University of Minnesota undergraduates with 7th and 8th graders at Murray Middle School to create their own science fair projects. Through the class, the undergraduates learn to be supportive mentors by working with younger students, while the middle school students learn to understand basic scientific ideas by working one-on-one with the undergraduates.