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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.”

Please join us in congratulating Rosanna Breaux on receiving the Mental Health & Prevention Mid-Career Researcher Award 2025!

These awards recognize excellence in research on the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health, as judged by significant publications, innovation, in intervention, and practical impact within the field.

VT Psychology, along with 90 other institutes around the world, participated in Good Deed Day on Wednesday to celebrate the power of kindness. We gathered food donations, wrote thank you cards, called our loved ones, and more! Check out our video below! #UtProsim

https://news.vt.edu/videos/k/2025/10/1_27ml8kdd.html

Please join us in congratulating Jungmeen on receiving the Mary Ainsworth Award for Excellence in Developmental Science. 

Please join us in congratulating Charles Calderwood on receiving the Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellowship! 🥳

Learn more here ⬇️

https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2025/09/science-faculty-fellowship-calderwood.html

CNB graduate student Erica Shafer has been awarded the Center for Gerontology’s S.J Ritchey Scholarship for Fall 2025!

Arturia Melson-Silimon was accepted into 2025-2026 cohort of the Behavioral Medicine and Sleep Disorders (BSM) Institute as part of the Programs for Inclusion and Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Center for Translational Sleep & Circadian Sciences: https://pridecc.wustl.edu/programs/behavioral-and-sleep-medicine. Congratulations