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A message from the Climate & Equity Committee
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Department Highlights
The purpose of this fellowship award is to assist diverse doctoral students in acquiring sophisticated research skills by working under faculty mentorship on their own pre-dissertation research. Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend, payment of in-state fees, and a $6,000 summer stipend.
Dr. Fei Xu has been elected as a 2024 fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) within the psychology section. Congratulations!
On March 21st, 2025 Dr. Nancy Liu was awarded the APTC (Association of Psychology Training Clinic) Training Innovation Award. This award is intended to honor a member clinic of APTC and it’s director who have implemented a meaningful innovation that positively impacted the training, research and...
Dacher Keltner was awarded the Association for Psychological Science's 2025 APS Mentor Award in recognition of his exceptional mentoring, and innovative research on compassion and awe, cultural influences on emotion and the dynamics of human hierarchies and power abuses.
Alumni Stories
After finishing a double major in Psychology and Music at Cal, I went on to complete a MA and PhD in Education-School Psychology, also at Cal. I am a credentialed school psychologist and have a...
Robert H. Friis—B.A., Psychology, 1964 Robert Friis received his B.A. in psychology in 1964 from Berkeley, and both an M.A. degree in educational psychology (1966) and a Ph.D. in higher...
After graduating with honors from U.C. Berkeley in 1962, Richard Gatley went on to take an M.A. and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Michigan State University. In 1969 he became an Assistant...