News

Shivani Goyal has been awarded an NRSA F31 from the NIH.

Grant title: “Identifying Relationships between Reinforcement Learning and Mood in Depression”

Please join us in congratulating Erica Shafer for receiving of the Make a Difference roundtable scholarship for graduate students!

The Virginia Tech Department of Psychology would like to recognize Dr. Heather Davis for being named an APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science!

APS Rising Stars are in the earliest stages of their research careers post-PhD and have already advanced the field with their innovative work.

Congratulations to Erica Shafer for being awarded the COVES Fellowship! 🥳
Learn more here ⬇️
https://vasem.org/fellows/erica-shafer/

Please join us in congratulating Hunter Tufarelli on receiving the 2026 Bob and Mary McClelland Aspire! Ut Prosim Scholarship for embodying the Aspiration for Student Learning "Embrace Ut Prosim As A Way Of Life."

Congratulations to Benjamin Hotaling for being awarded the Aspire! Award for EMBRACING UT PROSIM AS A WAY OF LIFE.

Learn more about the award here: https://experience.vt.edu/2017/Benjamin_Hotaling.html 

Please join us in congratulating Chloe Hudson on receiving the Walter Katkovsky Research Grant from the American Psychological Foundation!

Please check out this VT News article featuring Dr. Angela Scarpa! 

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/11/eng-ise-smarter-robots.html?utm_source=cmpgn_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsDailyCMP_nov1725-fs

Clinical science doctoral student Allison Tobar-Santamaria has received the Circulo de pr Norma m Holmes award for 2025, honoring a bilingual student with a commitment to service and research impacting the community. Congratulations, Allison! 

Clinical science doctoral student Allison Tobar-Santamaria has received a 2025 American Psychological Foundation (APF) COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarship ($5000) for her dissertation project, “Navigating Trauma and Alcohol: The Role of Cultural Identity and Social Support Among Undergraduate Latina Sexual Assault Survivors.”