While in school at the University of Minnesota, Kirsten Alfaro worked as a mentor at the YMCA on campus. Now, the Y is recognizing her and 37 others who give back throughout the metro with what they call the “thrive” award.

According to psychology professor Nathaniel Helwig, it takes a touch of asymmetry and the right amount of teeth.

Traci Mann, director of the Health and Eating Laboratory, weighs in on the new produce butcher trend among high-end grocers in the Twin Cities.

Jeffry Simpson receives a 2016-17 Graduate and Professional Teaching Award for his outstanding work with graduate students in the Department of Psychology.

Prof. Yuhong Jiang received a 2017 Outstanding Advising and Mentoring Award from the Council of Graduate Students (COGS). COGS solicited nominations from students system-wide and received more than forty responses, from which eight winners were chosen.

On April 22, 2017, a group of UMn Psychology faculty, their families, and graduate students joined thousands of others to advocate for the robust funding and widespread communication of scientific research.

Social psychology professor Jeffry Simpson’s areas of research include attachment processes, social influence in relationships, social development, and health outcomes. He studies how relationships work within a psychological model based on attachment theory, which claims there are basically three types of people: secure, avoidant, and anxious.

What happens when a child witnesses a parent’s arrest? And how can we reduce the psychological trauma of this experience?

Philosophy alum Dessa’s sold-out orchestral debut was met with broad acclaim. The concert’s narrative about jettisoning old love was fueled, in part, by a neuroscience collaboration with the University’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. Associate Professor Cheryl Olman (psychology) and researchers Andrea Grant (radiology) and Philip Burton (CLA) started working with Dessa last November to turn her brain into art for an evening of entertainment and education.