Speakerships
Spiker Memorial Lecture Series
A lecture series that honors the legacy of Professor Charles C. Spiker by bringing leaders in the field of developmental psychology to our department and campus.
Spence Lecture Series
A lecture series that honors the legacy of Professor Kenneth W. Spence by bringing leaders in the field of behavioral neuroscience to our department and campus.
Upcoming events
Events
Clinical Science Rounds
Clinical Science graduate students and post-bacc researchers will present updates on their research projects in 5-minute data blitzes and 15-minute research talks.
Virtual Clinical Science Rounds (via Zoom): Adam Bramoweth
Dr. Bramoweth, PhD, DBSM, is a Research Health Scientist at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) in the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the VISN4 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). He is also a Staff psychologist at VAPHS in the Behavioral Medicine Clinic where he treats behavioral sleep disorders, particularly chronic insomnia. His program of research is focused on improving access to insomnia care using methods from implementation...
Departmental Brown Bag: Woo-Tek Lee
Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.
Woo-Tek Lee is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Woo-Tek is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the Jiang Lab.
Title and abstract to come
DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Mark Berg
The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event in which DeLTA expands the interdisciplinary research community by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers. These events showcase presenters from a wide variety of academic disciplines and an open discussion about implications of the presenter's ideas across fields of study and research.
Dr. Mark Berg is Professor and Collegiate Scholar in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, and is the Director of the...
Targeting the Psychological Roots, Not Branches, of Vaccine Confidence
Aaron Scherer: Targeting the Psychological Roots, Not Branches, of Vaccine Confidence
The DTP Vaccine and Narratives of Injury
Global Vaccines in a Time of Climate Change, Megacities, and Antiscience
Clinical Science Rounds: Mark Niciu
Dr. Niciu is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. The Niciu Lab is broadly interested in the pathophysiology and experimental therapeutics of major mood disorders, particularly glutamate and subanesthetic-dose ketamine in treatment-resistant major depression. His work is also aimed at furthering the identification, replication, and dissemination of antidepressant response biomarkers.
Departmental Brown Bag: Kaitlyn Jones and Johnny Peters
Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.
Kaitlyn Jones is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Kaitlyn is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the LaLumiere Lab.
Johnny Peters is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Johnny is in the Behavioral & Cognitive...
Psychological and Brain Sciences Colloquium: Jeremy Wolfe
Dr. Jeremy Wolfe is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology in the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wolfe’s research focuses on visual search and visual attention. He investigates how people find what they are looking for and why they might fail to notice something that’s right in front of their eyes. He has a particular interest in socially important search tasks in areas like medical image perception (e.g., cancer screening), security (e.g., baggage screening)...