Department of Psychology

Announcement Archive
- July 1, 2025: A very warm welcome to our three new faculty: Dr. Na Yeon Kim, Dr. Bernardette Pinetta, and Dr. Deepa Ramamurthy! In addition, please welcome our new vice chair, Dr. Liz Davis.
- June 18, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Nelson-Coffey, former Ph.D. student with Dr. Lyubomirsky, for winning the International Positive Psychology Association Early Career Researcher Award.
- June 1, 2025: Congratulations to Tania Rodriguez for being awarded a Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant.
- May 20, 2025: Dr. Tuppett Yates, the Department Chair, features in UCR Magazine.
- May 15, 2025: Chelsea McElwee, a Ph.D. student with Dr. Aerika Loyd, was awarded a $5000 mini-grant through the UCR Center for Healthy Communities.
- May 15, 2025: Two UCR Psychology undergraduate students (Jessica Boyd and Sierra Sutton) attended the 2025 Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) Conference as part of Dr. Aerika Loyd's collaborative grant with UCI and UCM. Their inspiring reflections are on the Cal-IHEA website.
- May 1, 2025: Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky features in The New York Times..