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
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