Diversity Within the Department: Our Points of Pride
The University and American Psychological Association have recognized our department for our efforts to improve the diversity of our graduate programs. The department, faculty, and students have won awards recognizing the promotion of diversity, and several faculty are nationally recognized scholars in the areas of multicultural psychology and diversity enhancement. Our affiliations with several diversity-focus offices on campus benefit the campus community as well as the broader community in psychology. Our campus, department, faculty and student highlights include:
- The URI Multicultural Center
- Annual Lecture on Multiculturalism featuring nationally renowned scholars lecturing about multiculturalism on a global level
- URI Diversity Week is a weeklong series of workshops, lectures, & interactive events held every Fall highlighting URI's commitment to diversity and identity
- The URI Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Center
- Annual weeklong symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, and Questioning Issues each Spring
- Out and Proud Film Series in the Fall
- URI’s Clinical Psychology Program honored by the American Psychological Association’s Suinn’s Minority Achievement Award with an Honorable Mention in 2003
- Award winning faculty and students:
- 2005 Kathryn Quina was awarded the Florence Denmark Mentoring Award from the Association for Women in Psychology
- 2006, Kathryn Quina won the URI Multicultural Center Faculty Excellence (Leadership/Service) Award
- 2007 Trish Morokoff honored with the URI Multicultural Center Staff/Administrator Excellence Award
- 2007, Al Lott (professor emeritus) won the Rhode Island Psychological Association Musiker-Merenda Award for Significant Contributions to Mental Health in honor of career-long commitment to social justice
- Lisa Harlow was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for Quantitative Training for Underrepresented Groups for 2007-2010
- 2008, doctoral student, Megan Frost won the URI Multicultural Center Diversity Award for Graduate Student Excellence
- 2008 Bernice Lott (professor emeritus) won the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology
