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"In recognition of their extraordinary community engagement initiatives, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) announced that four of its member universities have been selected as regional winners of the 2021 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award. As regional winners, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Minnesota, University of North Carolina at

Janey Dike was selected as one of 10 summer fellows with The Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (VASEM) as a Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science (COVES) Policy Fellow. This is a 12-week program, which aims to strengthen ties between the scientific community and state government in the Commonwealth of Virginia, while encouraging and equipping more scientists and engineers to be effective

Four undergraduate research students from the Department of Psychology Center for Applied Behavior Systems are the first authors of four research articles to be published in the Virginia Journal of Business Technology and Science (VaJBTS). The authors revised their articles following feedback from the Editor. Each of the articles addresses the prevention of COVID-19 with naturalistic observations of COVID-prevention

First year Clinical Science graduate student, Delshad Shroff, was selected as one of the SSCP Student Poster Award Distinguished Contributions for this year's Association of Psychological Sciences (APS) Virtual Convention. Delshad will receive a $100 prize for her poster presentation, and will be recognized with a ribbon on her virtual poster during the APS convention which takes place May 26-27, 2021. 

Congratulations

Ya-Yun Chen, a student in Developmental Science Graduate Program has been selected as one of the invited attendees for the ABCD workshop on Modeling Developmental Change this summer. 

It was a very competitive application (40 seats out of 180 applications). For the selection criteria, all applications were rated (blind to name and university) in relation to appropriateness of the workshop’s topics. Also, it was

The 10 graduate students developed projects aimed at improving and enhancing inclusion at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech Graduate School’s 2020-21 Diversity Scholars shared their projects with the university community and the public in a virtual Spotlight showcase on Friday, May 7.

Courtney Swanson, a Ph.D. student in Psychology in the College of Science, said of her project: “Rainbow Road is a graduate student

The Virginia Tech Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research and the VT Psychological Services Center, within the Clinical Science program in the Department of Psychology, propose a one-year clinical/research fellowship, with the possibility to renew for a second year pending funding. The recruited fellow would work on the CA Human Services funded project focused on telehealth autism assessment services (including

VTCAR is excited to announce that applications for the VTCAR Student Award Program are now being accepted for the 2021-22 academic year.  The VTCAR Student Award Program is for graduate or undergraduate students working with a VTCAR faculty affiliate. The program’s purpose is to provide support up to $500 for a graduate or undergraduate student on research that is consistent with the mission of the Virginia Tech Center

The Hulick Serving Spirit Award funds a continuing outstanding Graduate Student in the disabilities field. The award is intended to support 2 years of professional and academic training of a graduate student seeking to pursue a service or research career that will positively impact special needs populations and their families, primarily those born with congenital disabilities, both intellectual and/or developmental, and

Tatiana is an upcoming May 2021 Ph.D. graduate and current CAP Lab student. Dr. Meza-Cervera accepted a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Section on Mood Dysregulation and Neuroscience, Emotion and Development Branch, at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH / NIH) in Bethesda, MD.

Congratulations Tatiana!

Written by: Martha Ann Bell