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Congratulations Jordan Albright!

Congratulations to Jordan Albright who was honored as a finalist for the 2020 College of Science Roundtable Make a difference Scholarship.  Although she did not receive the full scholarship, she did receive a monetary award as a finalist. Please congratulate Ms. Albright the next time you see her. 

Congratulations to Dr. Breaux!

I am pleased to share the news that Dr. Breaux was accepted as a CHIPS (Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services) fellow!   Each CHIPS fellow participates in a one-week training institute to support the development of a grant proposal followed by a year or more of ongoing supervision by their assigned CHIPS mentor.

CHIPS is an interdisciplinary training consortium, created to enhance career development for early

Congratulations to Dr. Bell!

Martha Ann Bell was selected to receive the Alumni Award for Research Excellence (AARE) 2020 in the “social sciences, humanities, or arts” category.  This award was given in recognition of her research having indisputable influence in cognitive developmental neuroscience; the complex interplay between biology, emotion, and cognition in young children.

Please join me in congratulating Martha Ann!

Congratulations Dr. Hauenstein!

Neil Hauenstein has been selected for the College of Science Diversity Award. This award recognizes his longstanding efforts, which include: assisting in the development of the department diversity certificate program, a funded ICTAS grant to support engagement in the annual HBCU/MSI Research Summit, and his research with the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute into the evaluation of equal opportunity/diversity

Congratulations to Vivian Zagarese!

Vivian Zagarese was selected to receive the 2020 Small Grants Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).  The SIOP grant will be used to support Vivian’s thesis research on leadership in surgical teams.  Vivian will be recognized at the 2020 SIOP Annual Conference in Austin, TX in April.

Please join me in congratulating Vivian!

Congratulations to Trevin Glasgow!

I am delighted to share the news that Trevin Glasgow has received (and accepted) an NIH Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA).

This is a 3-year postdoc position.  Trevin will be working with Dr. Bernard Fuemmeler in the Department of Health Behavior and Policy in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Please join me in congratulating Trevin!

Biology Meets Psychology in the Mind-Body Lab

A tangle of red, white, and black wires occupies a series of lab rooms on the second floor of Williams Hall, next to the iconic Burruss Hall on the Virginia Tech campus.

“Those wires take the biological signals from the body and convert them to the digital signals that we can see on this graph,” explains Alisa Huskey, a 5th year PhD student and senior graduate member of the Mind-Body Lab.  The wires are called transduce

Lee Cooper to be honored by Association of Psychology Training Clinics

The Department of Psychology’s Lee Cooper has been awarded the 2020 Association of Psychology Training Clinics Clinic Research Award.

Cooper is a clinical associate professor and director of the Psychological Services Center. The award recognizes the research achievement by Cooper and his center for “implementation of routine outcome monitoring in a psychology training clinic.” According to the department, the project

Martha Ann Bell Selected for College of Science Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

Congratulations to Martha Ann Bell who has been selected for the College of Science Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. It was clear from her nomination package that she has had a truly exceptional impact on the students she has worked with.Martha Ann, are proud to have you represent the Department of Psychology.