Award Winning Faculty
We are proud of our strong faculty. We have the most faculty of any department at VCU who have received an Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) -- Drs. Faye Belgrave (2008), Al Farrell (2015) and Ev Worthington (2016). Faculty who have recently received national awards for mentoring or research include Drs. Faye Belgrave (APA), Rosalie Corona (APA), Randy Koch (NIDA), Paul Perrin (APA) and Ev Worthington (APA).
$11.1 Million in Grant Funding
During fiscal year 2017, our faculty received more than $11.1 million in funding. The departmental funding portfolio is diverse with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Sciences, the Templeton Foundation and other sources.
iCubed
We are pleased to be a part of a transdisciplinary community of scholars who provide innovative practice-based and scientific solutions to challenges in urban environments. The Culture, Race and Health Transdisciplinary Core of the iCubed initiative addresses how culture and race/ethnicity impact health and overall well-being.
5-Week Spotlight Courses
Each semester we offer several one-credit courses that give psych majors a chance to learn about a faculty member's research in a small classroom setting. Examples from spring '17:
Love and Other Drugs: The Science Behind Media Portrayals of Romance and Substances of Abuse
Depression: A History of its Treatment
Behavioral Sleep Medicine
Biopsychology and Legal Issues
Psychology by the Numbers
Our department has the largest doctoral program at VCU and the second largest undergraduate major at VCU. We offer four Ph.D. programs: Clinical, Counseling, Health and Experimental (Developmental and Social). We have more than 1,600 undergraduate majors, 121 graduate students and 60 full-time faculty. Last year, our faculty published 237 articles and chapters, and 566 undergraduates participated in service learning or research internships.
New Research Findings
- Are symptoms of ADHD associated with functional impairment in pregnant women?
- Do e-cigarettes lead to cigarette smoking? And what predicts e-cigarette use anyway?
- Genetic and environmental factors in alcohol use disorder and divorce
- How do patterns of family functioning influence children's mental and physical health in pediatric asthma?
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