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Congratulations to Michelle Korlacka, Amie Durston, and Sarah Towers who are the recipients of the 2022-2023 TA Award from the Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology! This award recognizes their dedication to providing exceptional learning experiences for undergraduate students through their TA’ships this past year.

On behalf of all the faculty and staff in the Department, thank you and congratulations to Michelle, Amie, and Sarah!

Congratulations, Dr. Hilary Bergsieker on being named the recipient of the 2023 Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW) Equity and Inclusivity Award. This award was inaugurated in 2012 and is meant to “support individuals or groups who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving equity, inclusivity, and/or diversity at the University of Waterloo.”

Thank you, Hilary, for all of your efforts to foster equity and inclusivity within the Department, the Faculty, and the broader UW community.

"There's been increasing awareness of the fact that greenspaces are not just for esthetic purposes — that they're fundamentally important to human health." Prof. Colin Ellard, tells CBC KW's The Morning Edition why so many of us are 'blooming-obsessed'.

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Congratulations to Dr. Christine Purdon, who will begin her term as the President of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (CACBT) this weekend. Christine will be recognized at the Annual General Meeting of the CACBT conference taking place May 4-6 in Halifax.

Clinical psychology graduate students Jasmine Zhang, Charlotte Aitken, and Aliya McNeil presented an interactive workshop on Teens and Social Relationships on April 21, 2023 for guidance counselors and educators with the Waterloo Region District School Board. 

“The ability to discern whether other people are likely to be affiliated is crucial in everyday life,” said Ori Friedman, co-author and Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Waterloo. “When an adult joins a new workplace, or a child joins a new classroom, these judgments help them assess whether people are friends.”

Yesterday, Clinical psychology graduate students from the University of Waterloo Rebecca Trossman, Mahsa Sadeghi Janbahan, and Aleece Katan presented an engaging, informative, and interactive workshop on brain-based factors for health aging to a capacity crowd of 40 seniors at the Forest Height Public Library.  The presentation reviewed normative age-related changes in brain functioning, tips to promote brain health across the lifespan, and behavioral signs that additional assessment may be warranted.  Audience response was highly positive and lively, with many contributions,

To conduct the study, researchers asked 107 employees about their reasons for taking a break and not taking one. They then surveyed another 287 employees twice daily over five days about their sleep quality, fatigue, performance concerns, workload, and the number of breaks they take each day.

“The Lyle S. Hallman Foundation invests in initiatives that support children as they learn and grow,” says Laura Manning, executive director. “Daniela O’Neill’s board games project was a wonderful fit with our priorities, given its emphasis on early development and community engagement.”

Congratulations, Dr. O'Neill!

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This fall, the University of Waterloo’s Health Initiatives team launched the Graham Seed Fund (GSF) and invited researchers to submit their proposals for innovative health-care solutions. The GSF strengthens the University’s health system partnerships by providing resources for collaborating directly with a full range of health providers and clinicians.