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Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate student Kelsi Cornett is currently working on two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion projects. The first project investigates weight-based discrimination by using a large data set collected from LinkedIn and a pre-trained CNN model to investigate the relationship among BMI, race, and gender and upward mobility. The second project uses natural language processing (NLP) to detect

The VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research is excited to offer Mobile Autism Clinic services this summer. Our graduate student clinicians are enjoying their training experience with the families referred by our partners - Mount Rogers Community Services and the Child Study Center. 

Currently, our schedule is filled! 

We are very grateful to our sponsors at the Washington Group Special Care Planning Team and CA

Dr. Pearl Chiu and Dr. Brooks King-Casas have received the Virginia Tech Graduate School 2021-2022 College of Science Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award. This award recognizes faculty members who mentor graduate students for their role in supporting, encouraging, and promoting a positive and inclusive scholarly and teaching environment, and for contributing to professional and personal development of graduate students

Dr. Meagan Brem's proposal, “A Community-Based Approach to Developing a Brief Couples Intervention for Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence,” was selected for funding by Virginia Tech's Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. The grant is called the Pathways to Peace Project Grant, see below more details about this proposal.

Congratulations to Dr. Lee Cooper and his graduate student team (Alyssa Gatto, Hayoung Ko, and Sydney Jones) for receiving approval for funding ($50,000) from the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIVE) Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTC) Program.

The proposal entitled “A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Telepsychiatry with a Randomized Waitlist Control Utilizing Patient

Choosing Therapy just recently published an article on Melissophobia that contains unbiased information regarding what the fear of bees actually is, and what it might look like and includes exclusive insights of expert Dr. Thomas Ollendick.

The fear of bees, also known as melissophobia or apiphobia, is a severe and intense terror brought on by not only bees themselves but images of them and even the mere thought of

Congratulations to the VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research's PANDA lab graduate student clinician, Jennifer Bertollo! Jennifer has been selected to receive the American Psychological Foundation's COGDOP Graduate Student Research Scholarship. This will help to fund her dissertation project on validating a remote, caregiver-facilitated autism observation measure and to create corresponding training materials for

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