Congratulations to Dr Jee Kim who has been selected for the Dissertation Award by the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP). As a part of this award Jee will give a talk at the annual meeting of the Society (Chicago, October 2009) describing her dissertation research. The award also includes $US1000.

Jee’s thesis has also been recognised by the Australian Psychological Society who selected her dissertation for a 2008 Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology Award. As noted on the APS webpage: “The purpose of this Award is to encourage and reward outstanding research in psychology by candidates who have completed a PhD at an Australian University within the last calendar year.”

That award came with a cheque for A$1000, 12 months free Membership of the APS, and an invitation to present a paper based on her thesis at the 44th Annual meeting of the APS.

Her thesis was entitled “Extinction of Conditioned Fear in the Developing Rat”, and was supervised by Professor Rick Richardson.