Welcome to the Department of Psychology!

The Department of Psychology at the University of Denver comprises 22 full-time faculty, a number of full-and part-time emeritus, adjunct, and research faculty, about 60 students in the Ph.D. program and approximately 270 undergraduate majors. The department's offices, research laboratories, and general working space are located in Frontier Hall. The main departmental office is located in the first floor lobby of Frontier Hall, 2155 S. Race St. [phone: 303.871.2478]. Most of the information about the department can be found in this office.

Our doctoral programs include: Affect/Social, Child Clinical, Cognitive, and Developmental. Students in all areas can be in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience program. A strength of our Department is that each of our specialty areas includes a substantial number of faculty whose interests overlap and complement those of faculty in the other areas. We are committed to multi-discipline approaches and to close working collaborative relationships between students and faculty. Many of our students work with multiple mentors and with faculty advisors outside their specific area.

Department News

Diversity Matters! Newsletter

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New Awards

Ben Hankin (Clinical, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience) was awarded the American Psychological Associations's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

Stephen Shirk (Clinical Faculty) was awarded the Distinguished University Scholar Award, University of Denver.

Bruce Pennington (Clinical, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience) was named a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science 2009

Marshall Haith (Emeritus, Developmental) received the American Psychological Association's Division 7 Mentor Award

New Books

Howard Markman: (Clinical): Fighting for Your Marriage (3rd Edition).

Janette Benson (Developmental) and Marshall Haith (Emeritus, Developmental) (Eds):

• Social and Emotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
• Language, Memory & Cognition in Infancy and Early Childhood
• Diseases and Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood

New Grants

Iris Mauss (Affect/Social, DCN, Cognitive) and Kateri McRae (Affect/Social, DCN) Templeton Foundation: Using Positive Reappraisal to Counter Negative Emotion: Its Neural Mechanisms and Role in Resilience.

Stephen Shirk (Clinical) and Anne DePrince (Clinical, DCN) NIMH: Deployment Focused treatment Development for Depressed Adolescents with Interpersonal trauma.

Anne DePrince, (Clinical, DCN), National Institute of Justice: Preventing Revicimization in Teen Dating Relationships: A Randomized Control Trial with Adolescent Girls in Foster Care.

Howard Markman (Clinical), Using PREP with Foster and Adoptive Parents On Line.

Jan Keenan (ASC, DCN), NICHD: Differential Diagnosis in Learning Disabilities, Project I and Supplement Award.

Jan Keenan (ASC, DCN), NICHD: Longitudinal Twin Study of Early Reading Development.

Sarah Watamura (Developmental, DCN), Foundation for Child Development: Physiologic Stress Reactivity Among Mexican-American Families.

Recent graduate student grants, fellowships and awards