Awards, Honors and Accomplishments
The lists that appear below provide a sample of the accolades our faculty and students have received from outside the department in recent years.
Teaching Awards
Research Awards
- Dr. Jeremy Jewell, a member of the Clinical Child and School Psychology program, was named a “Champion for Children” by Children’s Home+Aid, an Illinois organization which provides adoption, foster care, early childhood education, counseling, and child abuse prevention services. This award honors Dr. Jewell, who has published widely on such topics as juvenile delinquency, family environment and drinking and driving, for his work with children, youth and families.
- In 1996, the Department of Psychology received the Paul Simon Teaching and Research Award, among the most prestigious awards SIUE offers, for "outstanding efforts linking teaching and research in the classroom".
- In 2009, Chris Berghoff, a graduate of our Clinical-Adult Psychology Program and now a PhD student at SUNY-Albany, won SIUE's Outstanding Thesis Award. His thesis was titled Toward a Functional Dimensional Approach to the Treatment of Mental Illness: The Relationship Between Experiential Avoidance and Impulsivity.
- In 2008, Bailey Williams, a graduate of our Clinical-Adult Psychology Program, also won SIUE’s Outstanding Thesis Award. Her thesis title was How Impaired is Too Impaired? Ratings of Psychologist Impairment by Psychologists in Independent Practice.
- In 2009, graduate students Sarah Brooks (Clinical-Child Psychology Program), Stephanie Damas (Clinical-Adult Psychology Program), and Chelsea Vanderpool (I/O Psychology Program) were each awarded Research Grants for Graduate Students through SIUE’s graduate school.
- In 2009, Undergraduate psychology majors Jessica Warden and Bianca Trejo won Regional Research Awards from Psi Chi
- In 2009, psychology students Jennifer Ritchie, Heather Jeffers, Justin Little and Laura Schulz received a second place award for their poster (titled Differences and Similarities Between College Students' Values and Their Parents' Values) at the Missouri Undergraduate Psychology Conference at Lindenwood University.
- Since 2000, psychology faculty and their student co-authors have published almost 200 research papers and presented many more papers at conferences. Follow these links to learn more about faculty publications or student research.
Awards for SIUE's Psi Chi Chapter
- In 1994, our chapter of Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology, received the National Chapter Award
- In 1995, Dr. Robert Engbretson received the Psi Chi National Advisor Award
A Visit From Dr. Robert Sternberg During SIUE's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Dr. Robert Sternberg is among the top 75 “eminent psychologists” of the 20th century according to Review of General Psychology, and he is considered an ISI “highly cited” researcher in psychology and psychiatry. He was the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association, and he is the author of more than 1,100 journal articles, book chapters, and books.
Click on the image below to watch the Streaming Video of Dr. Robert Sternberg's January 2008 Talk at SIUE:
Doctoral Program Admissions
More than 40 graduates of SIUE's Psychology Department have gone on to doctoral programs in clinical psychology, school psychology, social psychology, and other areas of psychology in the last decade. Find out which doctoral programs admitted them here.
