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University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology Thomas Ollendick was recently ranked as one of the most influential figures in psychology by Research.com. Dr. Ollendick's highest rated manuscripts are an article published with Dianne Chambless on “Evidence-based Treatments” and his Fear Survey Schedule for Children – now translated into 13 languages. Even though Dr. Ollendick retired from Virginia Tech in June

Senior Psychology major Kylie Bouchard, under the mentorship of third year Clinical Science graduate student Delshad Shroff and Dr. Rosanna Breaux, received the 2022 VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research Student Award for her research project,  “Evaluating the Short Sensory Profile 2 with Children and Adolescents with ASD and Comorbid Anxiety or ADHD.” Kylie has been working as an undergraduate research assistant

Congratulations to Psychology's assistant professor, Louis Hickman, and Department of Engineering Education's research scientist, Rockwell Clancy!  The team won funding from Virginia Tech's Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science for "Towards a Global Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Exploring and Assessing Intercultural Ethical Perspectives on AI." 

This is related to research on which Qin Zhu and

Congratulations to Heather Davis, who received funding from the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) for her proposal for the 2022-2023 Social Sciences PREP Program. Her research proposal examines shame as an underlying mechanism for eating disorders. Heather will also be part of a cohort to receive grant mentoring from the ISCE leadership team.  Way to go, Heather!

Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay, "Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." Read more here. 
 

Third-year clinical science graduate student, Delshad Shroff, was selected to receive the Society for Research in Child Development Patrice Engle Dissertation Grant Award, which supports students interested in a career in global early child development who are from or doing research in low- or middle-income countries. Shroff’s work for her dissertation, Examination of Emotion Socialization Practices During Early Childhood

Roseanne Foti was the invited speaker at the 13th annual Bass Distinguished Speaker Series on September 23.  Her address, Implicit Leadership Theories:  Past, Present, and Future concluded a full day event with current Ph.D. students, faculty, and alumni from Binghamton University School of Management.  The annual event is supported by The Bernard M. and Ruth R. Bass Center for Leadership Studies, which has been at the

Second-year Industrial/Organizational psychology graduate student Kelsi Cornett is working incredibly hard to help improve how society manages diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within the workplace. Growing up in a small town in Tennessee, Cornett was exposed to a lot of inequality, prejudices, and a lack of representation and inclusion of diverse groups. Eager for a change, Cornett moved to Chicago to study

Industrial and Systems Engineering faculty member Dr. Nathan Lau (PI), Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty member Dr. Ryan Williams (Co-I), and Psychology chair and faculty member Dr. Roseanne Foti (Co-I) received funding from the National Science Foundation for their proposal, Leadership Emergence for Synchronous Human-Autonomy Teaming.  This four-year project generalizes knowledge from implicit leadership theory

Psychology faculty member Dr. Angela Scarpa (Co-I), along with Industrial and Systems Engineering colleagues Drs. Sun Wook Kim (PI), Myounghoom Jeon (Co-I), and Zhenyu Kong (Co-I), and Human Development and Family Science colleague Dr. Caroline Hornburg (Co-I) received funding from NIH R03, Development of machine learning methods to support collaboration in a neurodiverse team at work. This project, will (1) leverage an