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Can you describe your work to a 5-year-old? These 10 amazing women can! And they did, on video, so that the Girls Launch! project, which provides female scientist role models for kindergarten children, could continue during the pandemic. Girls Launch! is a joint outreach and research program between Psychology's Vanessa Diaz (iLEAP Lab), and Carrie Kroehler the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech. Presentati

Congratulations to Emily Rost, she was one of six I/O PhD students in the country selected for Proctor & Gamble's I/O Business Challenge taking place in September.

The purpose is to solve a business challenge at P&G, which will then be implemented by the company.

The project could involve any issue that P&G’s I/O group faces, such as:

• Employee Selection, Testing/Assessments
• Workforce/People Analytics & Operations

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Kurt Hoffman was selected as the inaugural winner for the 2020-2021 Outstanding Academic Advisor Award (Faculty Advisor) in the College of Science!

Dr. Hoffman’s excellence in advising is most deserving of recognition. His reputation within the department, the college, the university, and the professional community is simply outstanding, a reflection of his professionalism, deep

Virginia Tech Department of Psychology faculty, Pearl Chiu and Brooks King-Casas have identified neural learning processes to be associated with symptoms of depression and linked improvements in these processes to improved symptoms in research participants being treated for depression.

The findings, described in a study published July 28 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry, suggest

Dr. Robin Panneton was selected as an APS Fellow (Association for Psychological Science). APS is the premier international society encompassing all subfields of Psychology.  Being elected Fellow of APS is a major career highlight. 

Congratulating Robin!

Written by Dr. Roseanne J. Foti

Congratulations to our Award Winning Staff!

Kim Raymond, COS Outstanding Staff Award 2020

In Psychology, Kim is the only person to handle the daily onslaught of purchase requests, petty cash transactions, and budget reconciliations initiated by faculty and graduate students in the department, sponsored programs staff, and the Controller’s office. In addition to the many electronic requests that come her way via e-mail

Recently Dr. Tae-Ho Lee had an interview for ‘Spotlight of the Month’ of SRCD Asian Caucus. The Asian Caucus, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) highlights in its members who have made outstanding contributions to their research fields via its "Member in Spotlight" emails and webpage.

See June 2021 Spotlight, Tae-Ho Lee, Ph.D, for the more details.

Congratulations Dr. Lee!

"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