News

Please check out this NY Times article featuring Rosanna Breaux: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/well/adult-meltdowns-tips.html?smid=tw-share

Congratulations, Rosanna!

Check out this article in the VT News featuring Rachel Diana! Congratulations, Rachel on your Certificate of Teaching Excellence.

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/10/science-awards-24.html

Congratulations to Psychology Department members Professor Rosanna Breaux and graduate student Vanessa Diaz Benitez for being honored and speaking at the 2024 College of Science Celebration of Excellence! 

Congratulations to Martha Ann Bell on the official publication of Child Development at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition. According to APA Books, "This book incorporates new research demonstrating this integration during infancy and childhood and incorporates new research methods based on technological advances that have enhanced our ability to examine early human brain development." 

Learn more about the book here

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Adrienne Romer on receiving the NARSAD/BBRF Young Investor Grant, titled " Cerebellar Alterations as Prospective Predictors of General Psychopathology Risk During Adolescence." 

Learn more about the BBRF Young Investor Grants here: https://bbrfoundation.org/grants-prizes/bbrf-young-investigator-grants

Please join us in congratulating 5th year CNB graduate student Jasmine Lewis for receiving the 2024 Division 37 Graduate Student Research Grant to support her dissertation study. 

The Virginia Tech Department of Psychology would like to recognize fourth-year Ph.D. candidate Fiyinfunjah Dosumu for being featured in the VT News for her research presentation on 'The Importance of Physical Activity on Occupational Well-Being'. Congratulations, Fiyinfunjah!

Learn more and see the full coverage here: https://communicatingscience.isce.vt.edu/research-stories/Fiyinfunjah_Dosumu.html

VT Psychology Alum Mary Blackwood is to be honored at commencement for her major contributions to Virginia Tech and beyond! 🎓

See the full coverage and learn more about the 5 recipients here ⬇

https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2024/05/adv-university-awards.html

The Virginia Tech Department of Psychology would like to recognize Vanessa Diaz Benitez for being selected as the recipient of the COS Roundtable “Make a Difference” Scholarship for Graduate Study for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Congratulations, Vanessa on this great achievement! 

The first E. Scott Geller Award for Distinguished Service to Applied Behavioral Science was presented at the 20th annual meeting for the Virginia Association for Behavior. The recipient, Christy Evanko, has made a significant contribution to the field of behavioral science through guiding and implementing licensure for behavior analysis in Virginia, among many other notable accomplishments. 

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