The Department of Psychology will recognize Alumnus of the Year: Early Career awardee Dr. Christopher Wahlheim, M.S. ’06, on Alumni Day on Friday, September 27, 2024. An associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Wahlheim will present a talk titled “Updating Memory and Beliefs: Mechanisms, Application, and Cognitive Aging,” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in DeGarmo Hall 551.
A graduate of the experimental psychology master’s program at Illinois State University, Wahlheim began his academic career as a first-gen college student with an A.A. degree from Black Hawk College (’02) in Moline, Illinois, and his B.S. at Illinois State in 2004. He then went on to complete his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology (’11) and two post-doctoral fellowships (’16) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Wahlheim is an associate professor of psychology and the director of the Memory and Cognition Lab at University of North Carolina Greensboro. His primary research interests are in memory, misinformation, beliefs, cognitive aging, and metacognition.
