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Professor Luis Parra was selected as a UC Davis CAMPOS Fellow. Professor Parra’s research centers on the effects of identity-based discrimination on the identity development, neurobiological stress regulation, and psychological health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of color (LGBTA POC) across adolescence and emerging adulthood. 

In a first-of-its-kind study appearing in Nature Communications, Professor Stolzenberg led an interdisciplinary team from the university’s Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics (IPN) to study effects of psilocybin in mouse mothers and found that the drug amplified anxiety and depressive-like symptoms associated with perinatal mood disorders — mental health conditions that can arise during or after pregnancy.

Professor Andrew Fox was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry's 2025 AE Bennett Clinical/Translational Research Award.

The Bennett Award is given to an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions in clinical or translational research in psychiatry. 

Professor Fox's research focuses on the neurobiology of affective style. His lab studies humans and nonhuman primates using methods such as high throughput computing, neuroimaging, RNA-sequencing, cellphone-based experience sampling, and chemogenetics.

Link to to full story here - https://lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-noteworthy/career-award-richard-robins-among-society-personality-and-social-psychology-2025

The Healthy Emotions, Relationships Development (HERD) lab is participating in the UC Davis Crowdfunding project this month.  

Join us to support the Impacts of Structural Inequality on Children's Health and Well-Being in India fund

Professor Simona Ghetti is among eight faculty from UC Davis newly elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as of March 27, 2025. 

The UC Davis Department of Psychology graduate program was ranked #6 among public institutions and #14 overall in the 2025 US News & World Report Grad School rankings.

This ranking places the department in the top 2% of U.S. psychology Ph.D. programs and second only to veterinary medicine among UC Davis graduate programs.

(by Alex Russell, College of Letters and Science)

How the brain remembers has a lot to do with focus. It’s in this area of cognitive science that Steven Luck, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, has built a career pushing the frontiers of both science and teaching.

Ron Mangun, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neurology and co-director of the Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis, has just been awarded the 2024 Award for Education in Neuroscience by the Society for Neuroscience. This prize recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate- and graduate-level neuroscience education and training. 

Victoria Cross, Associate Professor of Teaching, was recently Elected Fellow of APA Division 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology). According to APA, "fellow status is an honor bestowed upon American Psychological Association members who have shown evidence of unusual and outstanding contributions or performance in the field of psychology. Fellow status requires that a person's work has had a national impact on the field of psychology beyond a local, state or regional level.