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Department News

Comings & Goings

Georgia Nigro will be on leave from teaching for the psychology department for Fall 2010.  She will be filling in as the interim director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships during this time.

Krista Maywalt Aronson will be on leave for the 2010-2011 academic year. She will be directing the Story Book Project, an intervention designed to enhance community among elementary school students in the Lewiston, Auburn and Portland schools.

Rebecca Fraser-Thill is returning from her leave to teach again in Fall 2010. Welcome back!

Student Awards

We are pleased to announce the following award recipient for the Class of 2010:

Robert S. Moyer Prize in Experimental Psychology

Katherine Downing Reilly '10 has won the Robert S. Moyer Prize in Experimental Psychology. Awarded annually to the graduating senior who, by vote of the faculty of the Department of Psychology, has completed the most outstanding experimental psychology project for a senior thesis. Funded by an endowment established by Catherine A. Lee in honor of her husband, a member of the psychology faculty for thirty-two years. View the abstract for her project here.

Check out the Student Awards Archive for winners from previous years!