NDSU graduate student receives Chessable Research Award

6/15/2024
Alex Knopps, Ph.D. student at North Dakota State University studying Experimental Cognitive Psychology, recently received the Chessable Research Award for 2024. Alex’s research project will investigate the effects of solving chess puzzles collaboratively or alone. 

NDSU psychology professor receives NSF grant to study facial pareidolia

6/3/24
Benjamin Balas, North Dakota State University professor of psychology, has received a $608,176 award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to study pareidolia in children in the project entitled, “Tuning of the Visual Perception of Meaning to Natural Image Statistics in Childhood.”

NDSU psychology professor studies how children learn homophones

5/14/24
Erin Conwell, North Dakota State University associate professor of psychology, has received a $434,929 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to fund her research project entitled, “Context and multiple meanings: Homophone learning in early childhood."

NDSU student receives prestigious scholarship

10/23/23
NDSU student Joelle Hannam has received the prestigious Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship, which is awarded to only 100 rising college juniors across the country who plan to pursue a career in public service. Watch her interview with North Dakota Today here.

NDSU researchers awarded NIH grant to study how socioeconomics and perceived control can affect dementia-related diseases

9/26/22
Jeremy Hamm and Katherine Duggan, both assistant professors of psychology at NDSU, have received a National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant (NIH R01) of $1.6 million over four years.

NDSU professor co-edits special issue of Group Dynamics

9/21/22
Verlin Hinsz, Dale Hogoboom Presidential Professor of psychology, has co-edited a special issue of the journal Group Dynamics that was published this September.

NDSU's Next Big Move

8/31/22
Odalis Garcia is researching the relationship between stress and nightmares. She's one of many NDSU students seizing the exceptional research opportunities an R1 university offers. Learn about Odalis's research and what R1 means for NDSU's future.

Hilmert Lab Poster Presentation at the Summer Psychology Forum

7/8/22
Graduate student Garrett Byron and recently graduated undergraduates Olivia Wagendorf and Cadyn Hunter authored and presented the poster, “Heart Rate Variability During Pregnancy Moderates the Impact of Depressive Symptoms on Fetal Growth.”

Challey Spotlight: Rachel Delaney

4/19/22
Rachel Delaney is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology at NDSU. She received her B.A. in psychology and communication with a concentration in rhetoric and public advocacy at Purdue University Fort Wayne in 2021. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she is a first-generation college student who was hired as a graduate research assistant at the Challey Institute in January 2022.

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