Latest Departmental News
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
Psychology Colloquium
Posted: Feb 08, 2021 - 12:00am
Join us this Friday, February 12th, at 9:00 am (MST). Zoom link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/5606881226 Barbara McCrady, Distinguished Professor of Psycology at UNM and former director at CASAA-the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, wi...read more
Psychology Colloquium
Posted: Jan 26, 2021 - 12:00am
Our first Psychology Colouqium for spring term will be online this Friday morning, January 29, at 9:00 am (MST)Rex Junn, Ph.D. UNM Neurosurgery will present: The reason behind creative cognition. Abstract: Our research group has worked, ...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
Kamilla Venner wins Award
Posted: Mar 30, 2020 - 12:00am
The Research Society on Alcoholism recently gave out its annual awards. The 2nd Annual Dora Goldstein Diversity in the Sciences Award was awarded to Dr. Kamilla Venner. This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated excellence a...read more
Lindsay Britt-Scholarship Recipient
Posted: Feb 04, 2020 - 12:00am
Lindsay Britt, Contract and Grant Administrator here in the department, recently received one of two scholarships from the Education Scholarship Fund. Click this link to read more about Lindsay and the Education Scholarship Fund....read more
