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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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Please join us in congratulating VT Psychology's Roseanne Foti for being appointed to the Academy of Faculty Leadership! 

Learn more about this award and view the full coverage here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/04/provost-faculty-academies-2024.html

Please join us in congratulating psychology students Colin Roberts and Sarah Nadasy for receiving Aspire! Awards at this year's March Aspirations for Student Learning Celebration. 

See the full coverage and learn more about the awards here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/04/sa-040224-aspireaward.html?utm_source=cmpgn_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsDailyCMP_april1124-fs

Virginia Tech Psychology and Neuroscience team up to host Brain Day, a workshop encouraging Pulaski County High School students to learn about substance use prevention with an educational focus. 

Learn more and watch the full video here: https://news.vt.edu/videos/k/2024/03/1_polq4p8t.html?utm_source=cmpgn_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsDailyCMP_april1524-fs

Dr. Elizabeth Kolmstetter visited the VT Department of Psychology on March 14th, 2024 to deliver this year's Distinguished Alumni Talk, "Making a Difference in Government: IO Psychology at TSA, CIA, NASA, CISA, and more!" 

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Having served as the first Chief of Personnel Assessment and Research and first-ever IO Psychologist at the FBI, and pioneered innovative talent programs across eight agencies: CISA, NASA

Congratulations to VT Psychology's Louis Hickman for being awarded the Jeanneret Award for Excellence in the Study of Individual or Group Assessment by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 

See the full coverage on Dr. Hickman's work here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/02/science-hickman-ai-algorithms.html

Check out this article from VT News featuring the Department of Psychology's Angela Scarpa, Rosanna Breaux, Heather Davis, & Samantha Kempker-Margherio to learn more about the research teams that received seed grants from the newly developed Whole Health Consortium. Congratulations to all involved!

See the full coverage here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/whole-health-seed-grant-winners.html

The Virginia Tech Department of Psychology would like to recognize Academic Advisor Christina Minford for being the recipient of the Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising. Congratulations, Christina and thank you for your many contributions to the Psychology Department!

Congratulations to Dr. Jungmeen Kim-Spoon for achieving fellow status in both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Sciences. 

Read the full coverage here: https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2024/03/science-kim-spoon-psychology-fellow.html

Congratulations to Industrial/Organizational Doctoral Student Tanya Mitropoulos for winning this year's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the SSBEH category.