Recent news regarding social faculty and alumni

• Heather Claypool is a co-PI on a 4-year NSF grant with Miami alum Dr. Michael Bernstein (Ph. D., 2010) to study the impact of social exclusion on stereotyping and individuation.
• Allen McConnell is a co-PI on a 5-year NICHD R01 grant to study the therapeutic benefits of using therapy dogs with children suffering from traumatic brain injuries (the primary performance site is Cincinnati Children's Hospital).
• Jeff Hunger is a Co-Investigator on a 3-year NHLBI R01 grant to study the impact of weight stigma on health behaviors.
• Jeff Hunger has recently been interviewed for articles in Today.com, Popular Science, Prevention Magazine, and Scientific American.
• Heather Claypool was named a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2019).
• Heather Claypool was elected to and served on the MPA Council (2019-2021) and served as the MPA program chair for 2021.
• Allison Farrell was named a 2020 Rising Start by the Association for Psychological Science.
• Allison Farrell and Jeff Hunger were selected to participate in Phase II of the New Faculty Grant Planning and Support (GPS) program.
• Allison Farrell and Jeff Hunger received support from the Provost's 2021 Faculty Enhancement Fund.
• Allison Farrell was co-editor of a 2020 special issue of the journal Personal Relationships.
• Allen McConnell was promoted to University Distinguished Professor in Fall 2017.
• Allen McConnell was elected President of the Midwestern Psychological Association (2016-17) and President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2018).
• JJ Togans' research on cross-cultural comparisons of emoji use was featured as part of Miami University's Top News Stories.
• Alejandro Trujillo was the 2020-2021 Dissertation Scholar Award Winner in the Department of Psychology.
• Alejandro Trujillo (Ph.D., 2021) joined Proctor and Gamble as the Tide North America Analytics and Insights Manager in 2021.
• Paige Lloyd (Ph.D., 2018) accepted an Assistant Professor of Psychology position at the University of Denver beginning in August 2018.
• Jason Deska (Ph.D., 2018) accepted an Assistant Professor of Psychology position at Ryerson University beginning in August 2019 (after serving as a Post-Doc at the Univ. of Toronto).
• Kurt Schuepfer (Ph.D., 2017) accepted a position as Global Data Scientist at McDonald's.
• Tonya Buchanan (Ph.D., 2015) was promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology at Central Washington University.
• Chris Chartier (Ph.D., 2013) was promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology at Ashland University.
• Michael Bernstein (Ph.D., 2010) was promoted to Professor of Psychology at Penn State Univ. Abington in 2020.
• Program 2010 Alums Michael Bernstein and Don Sacco were elected Fellows of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.