UMD Department of Psychology

10/28/2025

Congratulations to UMD Department of Psychology Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires! https://go.umd.edu/kruglanskiuba

10/06/2025

Greetings from the University of Maryland's Department of Psychology!

We invite you to join us on October 8th for Good Deeds Day! With more than 70 departments of psychology from across the United States, Canada and throughout the world, the Department of Psychology is promoting national day of good deeds!

Consider joining us in promoting kindness and committing to making the world a better place by doing one nice thing for a friend, a stranger, or your community on October 8th!

Once you've completed your good deed, post about it on social media using , and log your good deed in our tracker by scanning the QR code below or by going to go.umd.edu/PsycGoodDeedDay

We hope you can join us October 8 by doing something kind!

08/02/2025

Super helpful guide for dealing with stress from the UMD Counseling Center.

Our brains and bodies respond to stress in many ways — fast breathing, racing thoughts, or feeling numb and shut down.

This guide shows common reactions to triggers and simple, science-backed ways to soothe your nervous system — like grounding exercises, vagus nerve stimulation, or gratitude journaling.

09/13/2023

https://today.umd.edu/33-faculty-and-staff-to-be-honored-at-convocation

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Naz! Such a great honor and so well deserved! You make us so proud! PSYC is truly thankful for your guidance!

Annual Awards Celebrate Excellence in Teaching, Service and Research

09/13/2023

Congratulations Dr. Chronis-Tuscano!

Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, a professor in the UMD Department of Psychology and expert on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), has been named the next Joel and Kim Feller Professor—an endowed professorship that was created by the namesake University of Maryland Department of Government & Politics alumnus and his wife Kim, a 1989 University of Maryland alumna, to support the BSOS Dean in recruiting and retaining highly qualified faculty: https://go.umd.edu/andreactfellerprof

Congratulations, Andrea!

03/28/2023

Congratulations and well deserved Dr. Mereish!

Congratulations to UMD Department of Psychology Associate Professor Ethan Mereish, who was recently presented with the 36th Annual Early Career Investigator Award by the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA), the world’s largest scientific research organization devoted to understanding the causes and complications of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems, and to promoting effective strategies for prevention, intervention, and sustained behavior change!

Learn more about Ethan and what this new distinction means to him at https://go.umd.edu/mereishrsaaward

03/09/2023

We are thrilled to announce that esteemed television journalist Gayle King ’76 will deliver our 2023 commencement address! 🎉 King will address summer 2022, winter 2022 and spring 2023 graduates, family and friends during the ceremony at SECU Stadium on May 22.

King, who Time magazine has listed among the most influential people in the world, graduated from UMD with a degree in psychology. She has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist, including three Emmys. In 2018 she was inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame and in 2023 was the 39th recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

go.umd.edu/3mBYKHr | 🎓

03/09/2023

The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences can't wait to hear Gayle King, a '76 graduate of our UMD Department of Psychology, deliver the 2023 commencement address! Go TERPS!

We are thrilled to announce that esteemed television journalist Gayle King ’76 will deliver our 2023 commencement address! 🎉 King will address summer 2022, winter 2022 and spring 2023 graduates, family and friends during the ceremony at SECU Stadium on May 22.

King, who Time magazine has listed among the most influential people in the world, graduated from UMD with a degree in psychology. She has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist, including three Emmys. In 2018 she was inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame and in 2023 was the 39th recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

go.umd.edu/3mBYKHr | 🎓

03/08/2023

Today we're working together to move Maryland Fearlessly Forward.

PLEASE support UMD PSYC during by going to go.umd.edu/gdpsyc23 to give!

Or, click on the "Your Choice" option to support another PSYC initiative, including the following (add the name in the box below the dollar amount):
- The Psychology Graduate Studies Program Fund
- The Psychology Undergraduate Studies Program Fund
- The Psychology Research Empowerment Program Fund (PREP)
- The SUCCEEDS Clinic Operating Fund
- The Industrial-Organizational MPS Fund

I’m ready to support Department of Psychology (PSYC) on March 8, 2023 during Giving Day . Learn more about Department of Psychology (PSYC)

03/07/2023

Give March 8th! Giving Day!

Support UMD PSYC during by going to go.umd.edu/gdpsyc23 to give!

Or, click on the "Your Choice" option to support another PSYC initiative, including the following (add the name in the box below the dollar amount):
- The Psychology Graduate Studies Program Fund
- The Psychology Undergraduate Studies Program Fund
- The Psychology Research Empowerment Program Fund (PREP)
- The SUCCEEDS Clinic Operating Fund
- The Industrial-Organizational MPS Fund

05/18/2022

Congrats PSYC Terps!🎊🎓🎈🎉

Our combined UMD Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Department of Economics, University of Maryland Department of Government & Politics, UMD Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science, and Environmental Science and Policy: Environmental Politics & Policy graduation ceremony is starting soon in the Xfinity Center! Watch the livestream at the link below, and please join us in congratulating our soon-to-be BSOS alumni. Congrats, grads!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibaO-mlgz1Y

04/25/2022

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Tracy Riggins! So well deserved! 🙂🎈🎉🍾

After a two-year hiatus, the University of Maryland President’s Commission on Women’s Issues named three 2022 Women of Influence award recipients: Utsa Santhosh, Tami Lee, and the UMD Department of Psychology's Tracy Riggins (pictured).

Riggins was nominated for the part she played in creating online communities where campus goers can share ideas and resources concerning families—including the UMDParents and umd-eldercare Google groups—which you can read more about here: https://go.umd.edu/rigginsWOI2022