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NDSU psychology professor receives NIH Award to study relationships between sleep disorders and binge eating
4/16/2025
Eating disorder behaviors, including binge eating, present significant threats to the health and functioning of many Americans. Many individuals across the nation struggle with sleep disturbances, which also hurts their health. Leah Irish, North Dakota State University associate professor of psychology, is examining sleep disturbances' impact on binge eating
NDSU psychology professor talks about research on KFGO's "It Takes 2 with Amy & JJ"
3/10/2025
Dr. Erin Conwell, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology at North Dakota State University, joins Amy & JJ to talk about the research happening at the NDSU Language Lab.
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.