GWU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Leading research, practice, and education in the science of psychology
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kira Wegner-Clemens who successfully defended her dissertation titled "The Influence of Audiovisual Semantics on Attention."
Special thanks to Dr. Sohn for chairing the defense; Drs. Kravitz and Rosenblau for serving as dissertation committee members; and Drs. Thothathiri and Mitroff for being readers.
Congratulations, Kira 
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bowleg and her 1st-year student Myla Lyons who spoke at the Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium for the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) Program at the University of Michigan .
Dr. Bowleg's talk was titled "Want to Be A Future HIV Prevention and Treatment Researcher? You're Going to Need to Critical (and Intersectional). She interviewed Myla about her experience as a first year doctoral student with critical theoretical perspectives and nontraditional research methods (e.g., qualitative).
At the end of the presentation, Dr. Gary Harper (the SOAR joint-PI and Myla's mentor when she was at SOAR) surprised them with beautiful glass prism plaques.
Please join us in congratulating some of our faculty Drs. Poppen and Moore and Applied Social Student Mary, who received awards yesterday at the Faculty Honors Ceremony!
Mary Jobe, WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award
Paul Poppen, Gold Anniversary (50 years)
Philip Moore, Silver Anniversary (25 years)
Congratulations
