Graesser Receives APA Presidential Award Dr. Art Graesser, professor in Psychology, adjunct in Computer Science and co-director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems, has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award from the American Psychological Association (APA).
	Department Welcomes New Chair Dr. Frank Andrasik has been named chairman of the Department of Psychology.
	Symposium Features Undergraduate Research Psychology honors students presented research projects at the Works in Progress Symposium on November 4.
	New NSF Funded Projects Dr. Art Graesser, professor of Psychology, has received three new NSF-funded grants. "Collaborative Research: Modeling Discourse and Social Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes" is the title of a project funded for $582,000.
	Suicide Prevention Grant Renewed Funding for the Memphis STEPS program has been renewed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
	Murphy Awarded NIH Grant Dr. Jim Murphy, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-principal investigator on an NIH grant in the amount of $365,438 titled "Protective Behavioral Strategies and Brief Alcohol Interventions."
	New Cognitive Science Concentration The Tennessee Board of Regents has approved the department's proposal for a Cognitive Science concentration for the Bachelor of Arts degree. The primary objective of the concentration is to supply undergraduate students interested in the cognitive area with interdisciplinary training to meet the growing demand for cognitive scientists.
	Randy Floyd Honored The Editorial Advisory Board for the School Psychology Review honored Dr. Randy Floyd as the winner of the 2008 Editorial Appreciation Award at the convention of the National Association of School Psychologists held in Boston in February.
	$2M Grant to Fund Autism Research For the next five years Drs. Charles Blaha and Guy Mittleman, both professors in Behavioral Neuroscience, will investigate a disconnection hypothesis that pathology of the cerebellum results in abnormal dopamine release in the cortex that underlies some of the core symptoms of autism.
	$2M Grant Helping Students in Math Dr. Xiangen Hu, associate professor and director of the Workforce Advanced Distributive Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory, is principal investigator for an Institute for Education Sciences-funded project specifically designed to improve the skill levels of students with deficiencies in mathematics.
	Center for Applied Psychology Research Now in 25th Year In 1984 the State awarded $600,000 to the Psychology Department to establish the Center for Applied Psychological Research (CAPR).
	Psychology Students Win Big in Research Forum University graduate and undergraduate students showcased their research in eight areas at the 21st Annual Student Research Forum held March 30.
	Spring 2009 Awards Ceremony The spring 2009 awards ceremony was held April 30...
	Sable Awarded ALMS Dr. Helen Sable, assistant professor, has earned the first Active Learning Minigrants (ALMS) award of $1,000 given by the department.
	Cook Chosen to Review NIH Grants Dr. Melloni Cook, assistant professor, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health to serve as a grant reviewer.
	Meisinger Selected as Early Career Scholar Dr. Beth Meisinger, assistant professor, has been selected to participate in the 2009 School Psychology Research Collaboration Conference (SPRCC) as an Early Career Scholar.
	Prolific Professor Dr. Roger Azevedo, associate professor, was identified by a group of graduate students at The University of Texas, Austin as being the ninth most productive writer in educational psychology journals.
	I/O Students Provided Real World Experience Industrial/organizational students have opportunities to take concepts learned in the classroom into real workplace labs under the auspices of the University of Memphis Center for Organizational Research and Effectiveness (UMCORE).
	National Science Foundation Grant Awarded Proposed research will combine knowledge from psychology, computer science, and philosophy to contribute to our understanding of how two people communicate and, in a sense, become one system.
	Alum Leads Department Dr. William Zachry is now interim chair of the department.
	Department Welcomes Chair of Excellence Dr. Gayle Beck is now the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence.
	Professor Joins Behavioral Neuroscience Area Dr. Helen Sable has joined the faculty in the Behavioral Neuroscience area.
	Professor Awarded the Dunavant Professorship Dr. Guy Mittleman has been awarded the Dunavant Professorship by the dean's office.
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The University of Memphis Psychology Department consists of approximately 32 full-time faculty members, 20 adjunct faculty (psychologists in the community who teach and/or supervise our students), 5 postdoctoral fellows, 90 doctoral students, 100 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.