Psychology Department (0436)
109 Williams Hall
Blacksburg VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-6581
Fax: 540-231-3652
Email: psycinfo@vt.edu

Associate Professor Martha Ann Bell, along with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Kacey Morasch (in photo at left), colleagues at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and several graduate students are busy tracking 380 children from infancy through childhood, examining developmental aspects of the relationship between cognition and emotion, from both a behavioral and cognitive neuroscience perspective.  Dr. Bell and her colleagues have received significant funding for this project from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH.

Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. The Department is home to more than 25 faculty, 6 staff, 70 graduate students, and 800 undergraduate majors. We offer doctoral programs in Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Biological Psychology, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Our faculty and students are actively engaged in basic and applied research that is advancing knowledge in a variety of areas of psychology and health related behavior. If these pages do not answer your questions please contact us directly and we will be more than happy to help.

- Dr. Robert Stephens

Department News

The Department of Psychology congratulates Dr. Lee Cooper on his promotion to Clinical Associate Professor, and Dr. Kurt Hoffman on his promotion to Advanced Instructor.

Dr. Martha Ann Bell has been elected the new editor of Infancy, the journal of the International Society on Infant Studies.

Kacey Morasch, former graduate student and current postdoctoral associate, is the recipient of the 2008 Dissertation Award from the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

Dr. Robin Panneton's research on infant speech perception was recently featured on Channel 13 news.

Drs. Lee Cooper and Julie Dunsmore were awarded Certificates of Teaching Excellence from the College of Science in March, 2008.

Dr. Robin Panneton has received a US/Canadian Fulbright Research Chair award for Fall, 2008 at the Centre for Research in Language, Mind, and Brain, McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Michael Knepp and Natoshia Raishevich recently won Sigma Xi Masters Thesis Awards.

Natalie Costa recently won a Sigma Xi Postdoctoral Fellow award.