News Archives - Department of Psychological Sciences

Happy Retirement, Dr. Betsy Short!

June 2, 2026

Elizabeth Short: Remembering Her Youth, Reflecting on Her Career, and Retiring With a Bang Set to retire in August 2026, Short shares her wisdom by discussing her childhood and career as a faculty member at CWRU and a developmental and child clinical psychologist By Haddy Dardir Author’s Note: The interview for this...

Graduation 2026!

May 26, 2026

Congratulations to all of our graduates from the Psychological Sciences department! We had over 100 students graduate from our department with degrees from Bachelors, Masters SLP, and PhD. Below are some of the students we have highlighted on social media regarding their next steps. We are proud of each...

2026 Graduate Student Awards

April 30, 2026

The 22nd Annual Graduate Student Award Ceremony was held yesterday, April 29, 2026 in the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom. Over 100 students were honored with awards from the College of Arts and Sciences, Case School of Engineering, Weatherhead School of Management, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of...

Intersections Poster Symposium

April 20, 2026

Last Friday, undergrad students presented their research projects at the annual Intersections Poster Symposium. The students represented many different disciplines: Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. This event gives us the opportunity to interact with the undergraduate research that has been done here at...

Undergrad Psych students present research at Social Science Research Day

April 13, 2026

On Friday, April 10th, students from various Social Science departments participated in the first ever Social Science Research Day. This day was organized by Anthropology PhD students Jenna Hays, Anuoluwapo Ajibade, Sarah Namirembe, and Aria Wanek, and supported by professor and Anthropology department chair Janet McGrath, PhD. Clinical Psychology PhD...

Psychological sciences’ Wilson Brown examines connections between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and severe mental illnesses

February 12, 2026

Wilson Brown, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, and other researchers at Case Western Reserve University recently reported new findings in Psychiatry Research clarifying how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms interconnect with severe mental illnesses (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The work, titled “Modeling the...

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