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As part of Spring Convocation, the academic achievements of all members of the King’s community, both students and faculty, were celebrated.

The King’s men’s basketball team delivered an exceptional 2024–25 campaign, providing student-athletes with the opportunity to pursue their basketball dreams while growing as individuals both on and off the court.

The Shaking the Movers workshop empowered Childhood and Youth Studies (CYS) students to become facilitators of change while amplifying the voices of London-area children.

Dr. Lynda Hutchinson ’01, this year's Excellence in Teaching Award recipient for full-time faculty, used her experience and insights to present this year’s Christopher Perrin Beatty Lecture on self-regulated learning in the 21st century classroom.

The Cross-Cultural College offers King’s students a chance to collaborate with Canadian and Japanese students on real-world business challenges and learn more about other cultures.

King’s students and faculty highlighted diverse and significant research topics at the Canadian Psychological Association's Annual Convention, showcasing the vital impact of mentorship in their academic journey.

The Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards Gala celebrated this year’s recipients of the Hugh Mellon Excellence in Research Award, the Renée Soulodre-La France Excellence in Research Award (Early Career), and the King’s Research Excellence Scholar Grants.

Faculty and students are excited to share their passion for how the brain works with live demonstrations, a panel discussion on addiction in society, and a lecture on cognition at the margins of consciousness as part of Brain Awareness Week, March 11 – 15, 2024.

A great learning experience of presenting posters at the Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration earned three Psychology alumnae numerous accolades. The Society's education chair said that "she could not have  been more pleased with the calibre of the students." 

Dr. Wendy Ellis, Associate Professor of Psychology, spoke to The Catholic Register on a recent publication from the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications titled Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media. From a psychologist’s perspective, Dr. Ellis looks at social media, both in terms of what it adds to a person’s life and what it takes away. “You can have this online community,” she said. “But not at the expense of the in-person.”

Ayla Lyons was awarded the 2022 Psychology Thesis Award for her thesis “We’re in This Together: Spirituality, Interconnectedness, and Concern for Global Crises.”

Dr. Cathy Chovaz, Chair & Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, was recently interviewed by Deaf Dots about the challenges of diagnosing ADHD in Deaf children. Dr. Chovaz's segment begins at 10:14.

As part of CityStudio’s HUBBUB on April 21, King’s Psychology students will be displaying research on three different projects, each designed to make London more liveable, sustainable and joyful.

The King’s Job Shadow program offers students the opportunity to see what their future career might look like and gain experience to complement the skills they have learned in class.

Angela Core, King’s ASL Interpreter, encourages anyone planning an event to include her services to provide a more inclusive environment for members of the Deaf community.

Dr. Loretta Norton, Assistant Professor of Psychology, discusses her work exploring electroencephalogram, or EEG, recordings of the human brain in the transition to death as part of a Vice article about research into a surge gamma wave activity at death.

Two student-led projects, one creating a road map to mental health resources for youth in the London-Middlesex Area and another using social media to reduce stigma towards individuals experiencing homelessness and substance use competed for this year’s Agnes Penner Prize.

In an article for CBC, Dr. Wendy Ellis, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, discusses her research showing a decrease in COVID-19-related stress among teens between April and August. 

Work by two recent King's Psychology alumni was presented at CogSci 2020, the Cognitive Science Society conference – the top international conference in the field of cognitive science.

Dr. Ellis examines psychological stress and substance abuse among youth during the initial phase of COVID-19.

Psychological stress and substance abuse among youth during the initial phase of COVID-19 examined by Huron and King’s faculty.

King’s alumni have been named on two prestigious lists.

Dr. Thomas Tieku, Dr. Krista Lysack and Dr. Tracy Smith-Carrier have won research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

As part of the 2019 Mustang Athletic Gala, held on April 2, 2019 King’s student-athletes receive team MVP awards, Purple Blanket, and F.W.P. Jones Trophy.

The Centre for the Multidisciplinary Applied Research at King’s (MARK) will be hosting a networking event designed to promote community-university partnerships.

There is a chance your first memory is false. Department chair of Psychology, Dr. Laura Melnyk Gribble, speaks with CBC Radio about our first childhood memories. 

Dr. Wendy Ellis has been awarded the SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research on adolescents and social media.

Kristin Legault-Donkers is recognized for a series of children’s books she published on depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder.

Gregoire Bouchard and Cedric Joseph are two King’s students out of six Mustangs who will play at the 2018 U SPORTS Valero East-West Bowl.

Dr. Cathy Chovaz has been elected as the vice-chair on the Status of women and equity committee for the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.