The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has provided a list of resources pertaining to mental health services.
The Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment in our pursuit of excellence in research and teaching. True excellence in research and teaching can only be achieved in environments that affirm the dignity and inherent worth of all individuals.
Psychology as a discipline firmly recognizes the importance of individual differences. We value and seek to better understand individual differences, including but not limited to those related to race, ethnicity, skin color, national origin, religious and spiritual beliefs, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, size and appearance, as well as veteran and socio-economic status. While we value free expression and the critical examination of ideas, we must also be committed to creating an environment of trust, mutual respect, and compassion. We have a shared responsibility to continually foster an environment that supports and benefits all, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, staff, and faculty.
It is important that we all recognize and continually remind ourselves that feelings of alienation, marginalization, powerlessness, and loneliness are detrimental to both physical and mental health. It is therefore incumbent upon the Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma that we foster an environment where all individuals feel welcome, valued, competent, and empowered.
The Department of Psychology 2025 Winter Newsletter was sent out to alumni in February of 2025. You can view all of our past newsletters here.
This issue contains notable updates about our newest faculty members, graduate student conference presentations, departmental awards, and so much more!
Undergraduate Psychology student Katrina Parker has been selected to participate in the prestigious OU McNair Scholars Program. Parker is a research assistant in assistant professor Michael Sladek’s Contexts of Health, Adolescent Resilience and Measuring Stress (CHARMS) Lab and will present at the McNair Conference this spring. She plans to attend graduate school to pursue a degree in counseling in the fall.
Congratulations to undergraduate psychology major McKenna Nhem, who was a recipient of the Regents’ Award for Outstanding Juniors which is awarded to the top 15 juniors at the university each year. In addition to her coursework in psychology, Nhem also works in the PEANUTs research lab under assistant professor Charlie Rioux.
Congratulations to doctoral candidate in cellular and behavioral neurobiology Jordan Norris, who was awarded the national 2024 NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program. As an NIH OSNAP scholar, Jordan will have the opportunity to travel to NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, present a poster on her research and meet one-on-one with NIH leadership and program officers to integrate into the NIH community and expand her network of scientific colleagues to boost her transition to independent research.
Congratulations to doctoral candidate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Ares Boira Lopez, who was a recipient of the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Finishing Fellowship
The Award for Excellence in Transdisciplinary, Convergent Research recognizes leadership in the creation of collaborative initiatives of teams of tenured or tenure-track OU faculty over the recent past on projects that demonstrate a deep integration of disciplines toward new configurations of knowledge production and that strive toward creating a positive and meaningful societal impact. This award can be given to an individual or to a team and therefore nominations for teams of faculty are most welcome. Three of our faculty members were recipients of this award this semester
