CONGRATULATIONS 2025 PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATES

Over 400 Psychology Bachelor of Science Majors walked in the CLAS name recognition on Saturday, May 3. Congratulations to all our graduates as they celebrate their achievements at UF.

Spring Awards Ceremony highlights 2025

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 Award Winners! Thanks so much to our Alumni and friends of the Department for establishing and continuing to support our annual awards. These awards make it possible to recognize the achievements of our students and provide scholarships and research funds to support their continued training. The UF Psychology Gerber […]

Undergraduate Research Forum 2025

Thanks so much to everyone who supported the Department of Psychology on UF’s Giving Day 2025! Your generosity supported this event and prizes! Each Spring, the Psychology Graduate Student Organization (PGSO) hosts an Undergraduate Research Forum to give undergraduate researchers the chance to show what they’ve been working on in their labs over the past […]

Timothy Vollmer Named 2025 UFRF Professor

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 35 faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2025, recognizing their outstanding research productivity and potential for future contributions. Since its inception in 1997, the program has honored over 900 faculty members. Recipients are selected based on nominations, personal statements, and evaluations of their recent research achievements, including […]

2025 Early Career Contributions to Diversity Science Award

Congratulations! Dr. Roberto Abreu has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Early Career Contributions to Diversity Science Award from Division 53 of the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes an early career psychologist who has established a program of empirical research that has had a major scientific and/or public impact on the field’s […]

Gator Nation Giving Day 2025 Thank You

The Department of Psychology ended the day with 186 donations received and $528,215 raised. Thanks to Everyone for your generosity and for connecting with Psychology on Giving Day. Our total includes an annual pledge as well as the incredible $15,000 challenge gift from our Psychology Advisory Board! Based on initial results, the Department of Psychology […]

Collaboration Awards: Chun-Che Hung and Sanghee Park

Graduate students Chun-Che Hung and Sanghee Park in Dr. Natalie Ebner’s Social Cognitive and Affective Development Laboratory recently were awarded Collaboration Awards from the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging (SRNDNA)! Chun-Che will work with Dr. Kristen Kennedy (The University of Texas at Dallas) to explore the joint contributions of structural and functional […]

2025 Gierach Lecture In Political Psychology

Joanne Miller, PhD NOT SEEING IS BELIEVING: SANTA CLAUS AND SECRET PLOTS Dr. Miller studies political psychology, political prop-aganda, and misinformation and conspiracy theo-ries. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts and has won awards from the following American Political Science Association sections: Elections, Public Opinion, and […]

UF Department of Psychology ranked second-best online psychology program in the U.S

For the fourth consecutive year, the UF Department of Psychology has been ranked in the top 5 for online undergraduate programs by the U.S. News & Work Report. This year UF is second in the nation for online undergraduate psychology degrees. Psychology Department Chair Julia Graber attributes this high ranking to the department’s approach to its […]

Dr. Natalie Ebner leads the way in brain aging research

Trish Calvert Ring Endowed Professor of Psychology Natalie Ebner is leading the way in brain aging research, trying to understand how our brain develops and changes as we get older. As the head of the Social Cognitive and Affective Development Lab, she has been involved in dozens of research projects with the goal of understanding healthy […]

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