VTCAR is excited to announce that applications for the VTCAR Student Award Program are now being accepted for the 2022-23 academic year! The VTCAR Student Award Program is for graduate or undergraduate students working with a VTCAR faculty affiliate. You can also view the announcement at our website: https://www.vtcar.science.vt.edu/research/funding.html. Please share widely!
The program’s purpose is to provide support
Clinical Science assistant professor Rosanna Breaux has been selected for the Jerry L. Hulick Faculty Fellowship for Special Needs, Disabilities, and Inclusion. Dr. Breaux, who is the director of both the Child Study Center and CALMER Lab, focuses her research on the social, emotional, and academic functioning of children and adolescents, particularly those with ADHD. She is also interested in understanding the role
Congratulations to Dr. Martha Ann Bell, who was awarded a 4-year U01 funded by NIH/NIDA. MPIs with Dr. Bell are Dr. Brittany Howell (FBRI and Human Development) and Dr. Kathy Hosig (Veterinary Medicine, Public Health Extension Specialist).
The project is titled “HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD)” and the Virginia Tech team joins 24 other teams in a national consortium that will follow 7,500 mothers and children
Dr. Heather Davis recently had two articles focusing on eating disorders published. The first article was published in the journal Appetite and the other in the Journal of American College Health. Congratulations, Dr. Davis!
Dr. Rosanna Breaux, assistant professor of Psychology and director of the Child Study Center at Virginia Tech, recently conducted studies that focused on children's mental health during the pandemic and their classroom performance. Based on that data, Breaux says that teachers may start to notice a greater amount of students suffering from anxiety, depression, irritability, and even aggression. Read more now.
Psychology faculty members Dr. Martha Ann Bell and Dr. Meagan Brem have been named recipients of the 2022-2023 Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE) Scholars program. Read more now.
Louis Hickman received funding for his project entitled "Automatic Scoring of Interpersonal Assessment Center" from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The project capitalizes on recent advances in text mining and machine learning (ML) to investigate the possibility of automating Assessment Center scoring and to examine specific factors that predict when ML models are likely to be accurate
Louis Hickman, Ph.D., recently had an article published in Journal of Applied Psychology. The article titled, "Automated Video Interview Personality Assessments: Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability Investigations" was highlighted in a recent post, "Using Computers to Assess Video Interviews: Does it Work?"
Dr. Hickman has recently joined Virginia Tech as a IO faculty member. Prior to Virginia Tech, Dr. Hickman
Psychology undergraduate student Lauren Meier has been awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association's Division 50 (Addiction Psychology) Student Poster Award for her poster, "Proximal Relations between LGBTQ+ Students' Alcohol Use and Cyber Abuse: The Role of Discrimination." Congratulations, Lauren!
Department of Psychology undergraduate research assistant Emma Larkin recently presented a poster at Virginia Tech's Dennis Dean Undergraduate Summer Symposium. The Dennis Dean Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium is a symposium where undergraduates across Virginia Tech present on research that they have been conducting. Emma’s research this summer was on how agreement among parents, adolescents, and clinicians may
