Latest Departmental News

Publications and Presentations

Posted: Apr 05, 2022 - 11:00am

Publications This week's Research Report from the UNM College of Arts & Sciences Office of Research has identified four new publications from our faculty and students. Addiction Research and Theory published Dr. Katie Witkiewitz's Alcohol use disord...read more

New Publications

Posted: Mar 29, 2022 - 10:00am

Two of our professors are highlighted in this week's Research Report from the UNM College of Arts & Sciences Office of Research.  The Internaitonal Journal of Electrochemical Science published Davood Tofighi's  An Efficient Electrochemical...read more

Friends and colleagues remember Dr. Michael Dougher

Posted: Jan 21, 2022 - 12:00am

Dr. Michael Dougher was an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and former vice president for Research at The University of New Mexico where he started his academic career in 1980. Dougher spent 38 years at UNM as a professor of Psychology bef...read more

2021 Newsletter

Posted: Jan 05, 2022 - 03:00pm

The 2021 Newsletter is now available for you to read.  Please click here to see all the wonderful things that happened in Psychology this past year....read more

UNM Receives $10 Million Grant to Support Research on Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder

Posted: Oct 05, 2021 - 12:00am

UNM Substance Use Disorder Grand Challenges research leads to funding support for new center. A new center at The University of New Mexico will focus on innovative ways to help people overcome experiences with chronic pain or opioid use. Researchers...read more

Psychology Colloquium

Posted: Aug 27, 2021 - 11:30am

Our first aPsychology Coloquium for the fall term will be held Friday, September 2, 2021.  Please join us in Logan Hall, room 125 (or on Zoom) at 9:00 am.  Zoom Details: Link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/93318869319, Passcode: loganhall, Me...read more

Virtual Graduation Spring 2021

Posted: Apr 20, 2021 - 12:00am

VIRTUAL GRADUATION SPRING 2021   The faculty and staff in the Department of Psychology congratulate you on your upcoming graduation!  The Department of Psychology convocation ceremony will be virtual this year.  The Video will post on...read more

Kim M. Larrañaga Scholarship

Posted: Apr 09, 2021 - 12:00am

The Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico is pleased to announce the creation of the Kim M. Larrañaga Memorial Scholarship. Over the course of a 15-year career at UNM, Kim served in multiple departments across campu...read more

Jalene Herron--SHIP Award Winner

Posted: Apr 02, 2021 - 12:00am

The Department is extreamly pleased to announce that Jalene Herron and her mentor, Dr. Kamilla Venner, are the inaugural winners of the Sobel Duncan Science for Health in Indigenous Populations (SHIP) Award. The goal of the SHIP Award is to promote ...read more

2020 Newsletter

Posted: Jan 21, 2021 - 12:00am

The 2020 Newsletter is now available for you to read.  Please click here to see all the wonderful things that happened in Psychology this past year....read more

Positive psychology workbook cover

Positive Psychology Workbook

Posted: Dec 07, 2020 - 12:00am

Free Positive Psychology Workbook to Help Make 2021 a Better Year Bruce W. Smith is making a new positive psychology workbook freely available to everyone as a PDF to help them get through the holidays and make next year a better new year. Positive ...read more

Agora Celebrates 50 Years

Posted: Oct 30, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dedication and service: Agora celebrates 50 years, remains one of the oldest crisis centers in the country. In 1970, a University of New Mexico freshman in distress sought professional mental health help on campus. Unsuccessful in finding the h...read more

Spring 2020 Psychology Graduates

Posted: Aug 26, 2020 - 12:00pm

Click on the 2020 Convocation link to view our Spring 2020 Convocation brochure. You can also find profiles of our recent graduates on our website under people. 2020 Undergraduate Students 2020 Graduate Students ...read more

STEM Shoutouts!

Posted: Aug 26, 2020 - 12:00am

Advance at UNM has given STEM Shoutouts! to two of our faculty; Dr. Kamilla Venner and Dr. Katie Witkiewitz.  Click on the links below to see what the shoutouts are all about! Dr. Kamilla Venner wins Dora Goldstein award. Dr. Katie Witkiewitz e...read more

Venner Research Spotlighted

Posted: May 22, 2020 - 12:00am

The National Institutes of Health HEAL initiative has spotlighted research being done by our own Kamilla Venner, PhD.  The research expolores the integration of medication-based treatment with the healing traditions of American Indian and Alask...read more