Psychology Department (0436)
109 Williams Hall
Blacksburg VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-6581
Fax: 540-231-3652
Email: psycinfo@vt.edu
Professor of psychology Dr. Jones meets first lady Laura Bush

Associate Professor Martha Ann Bell, along with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Kacey Morasch (in photo at left), colleagues at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and several graduate students are busy tracking 380 children from infancy through childhood, examining developmental aspects of the relationship between cognition and emotion, from both a behavioral and cognitive neuroscience perspective.  Dr. Bell and her colleagues have received significant funding for this project from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH.

Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. The Department is home to more than 25 faculty, 6 staff, 70 graduate students, and 800 undergraduate majors. We offer doctoral programs in Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Biological Psychology, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Our faculty and students are actively engaged in basic and applied research that is advancing knowledge in a variety of areas of psychology and health related behavior. If these pages do not answer your questions please contact us directly and we will be more than happy to help.

- Dr. Robert Stephens

Department News

Drs. Lee Cooper and Julie Dunsmore were awarded Certificates of Teaching Excellence from the College of Science in March, 2008.

Clinical graduate student Elise Drake was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Commendation Award in March, 2008.

Dr. David Harrison was recognized as a "Favorite Faculty Member" at the Favorite Faculty Reception (sponsored by the Office of Residence Life) in April, 2008.

Clinical graduate student Matt Jarrett received the College of Science Roundtable “Make-a-Difference” Scholarship for Graduate Study in April, 2008.

Undergraduate majors Katie Hercik and Ryan Smith have been elected Virginia Tech 2008 Woman and Man of the Year (respectively!). Congratulations, Katie and Ryan!

Dr. Robin Panneton has received a Fulbright Research Chair award for Fall, 2008 at the Centre for Research in Language, Mind, and Brain, McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Graduate students Kristy Benoit, Thomas Cunningham, Rolanda Findlay, and Akiho Tankana won first place in the Social Sciences division of the Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium.

Michael Knepp and Natoshia Raishevich recently won Sigma Xi Masters Thesis Awards.

Natalie Costa recently won a Sigma Xi Postdoctoral Fellow award.

Dr. Kurt Hoffman is one of the recent recipients of the faculty member of the year award by the Student Alumni Association of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association