Psychology Professor Lisa Weyandt will travel to Pennsylvania to receive the award

URI Psychology Professor Lisa Weyandt will be honored by her alma mater for her distinguished accomplishments throughout her career.

Weyandt will travel to Pennsylvania State University Oct. 27 to receive the award given annually to select graduates of Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development. A 1984 Penn State graduate with a bachelor’s degree in individual and family studies, Weyandt was in the University Scholars Program at Penn State (now the Schreyer Honors College). In addition to teaching psychology in the URI College of Health Sciences, she is a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, and the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience.

Weyandt earned her master’s degree in psychology from URI and subsequently served as a Rotary International Ambassador to Oslo, Norway, where she studied Norwegian and neuropsychology at the University of Oslo.

Upon her return to the United States, Weyandt earned a doctorate in school psychology at URI and specialized in neuropsychology. She joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Central Washington University in 1990, where she received the Distinguished Professor of Research Award in 2004. Weyandt returned to URI as a faculty member in 2006 and over the years has mentored hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in various capacities.

She is the author of four books as well as more than 70 journal articles and book chapters and is currently on sabbatical writing her fifth book, “Clinical Neuroscience: Foundations of Psychiatric Disorders and Neurodegenerative Disease.” She recently completed a five-year National Institutes of Health-funded study to investigate the educational, cognitive, psychological, social and vocational functioning of college students with and without ADHD.