Cook Receives Coveted Award

The University's Black Scholars Unlimited presented Dr. Melloni Cook with the "Igniting Excitement for Academic Excellence Flame Award." Cook was nominated and selected by graduate and undergraduate students based on her teaching and scholarly research. Each year the organization selects one outstanding faculty member to honor. Cook is the 17th recipient.

Black Scholars Unlimited is an honors society that seeks to involve outstanding students in the cultural and academic activities that will help them in developing career and academic goals. Their purpose is to enhance the academic experience by promoting scholarship, leadership and service.

Internships

The following Clinical students have matched with internships:

• Laurie Burke, Memphis VA Medical Center
• Jordan Fields, Wilford Hall Medical Center/Lackland AFB, San Antonio
• Ashley Hum, Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University
• Courtney Peasant, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
• Ali Yurasek, Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Two Psychology Faculty Members Receive the First-Ever Michael B. and Shirley L. Lupfer Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award

Drs. Melloni Cook (associate professor) and Helen Sable (assistant professor) have each won the first ever Lupfer Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award is generously funded by an endowment provided by retired Department of Psychology faculty members Drs. Michael B. and Shirley L. Lupfer and will be given at four-year intervals. Recipients of the award must be fulltime members of the Psychology Department faculty who teach undergraduate courses, model scholarly teaching methods, demonstrate creativity in class activities and assignments, provide undergraduate mentorship and consistently achieve outstanding student ratings.

Cook, who joined the department in 2003, received her Ph.D. in biobehavioral health from The Pennsylvania State University. Sable received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin and joined the department in 2008.

ABOUT US

The University of Memphis Psychology Department consists of approximately 30 full-time faculty members, 20 adjunct faculty (psychologists in the community who teach and/or supervise our students), 5 postdoctoral fellows, 90 doctoral students, 58 masters students, and over 700 undergraduate majors and minors.

The Department is also the home of the Center for Applied Psychological Research, one of the most successful of the centers created under the State of Tennessee's Centers of Excellence program.