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How do kindergarten children know girls can be scientists? Girls Launch! is a Center for Communicating Science and Department of Psychology project that provides female scientist role models to kindergarten children. With a grant from the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT), we’ll be supporting 10 graduate students this summer in the creation of kindergarten-friendly videos. 

The COVID-19 rapid response

The death of George Floyd and too many others, coming on the heels of a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted communities of color, have left many of us feeling pain, uncertainty, and vulnerability, especially our students and faculty of color.  Know that we as a Psychology Department stand with you who have suffered, and continue to suffer, from the long history of injustice in our society.  We must fight racism

Hello. My name is Angela Scarpa and I am a Professor and Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Science program in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. It is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has upended us all in so many ways personally and professionally. We are dealing with a substantial amount of uncertainty and fear, hearing tragic news on a daily basis, watching loved ones suffer, and struggling

Please congratulate Jennifer Bertollo for receiving an honorable mention for her project submitted for the Delaware Student Project Award! Jennifer is a second year graduate student in the Clinical Science program area in Psychology, and affiliated with the VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research.

The Delaware Project student award recognizes excellence in research that links laboratory and community settings, and

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. 

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

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!

Please congratulate Ms. Hernandez for being spotlighted on SRCD Latinx Caucus! To learn more information, one can check out: 

https://latinxcaucus.srcd.org/spotlights/erika-hernandez-doctoral-candidate-virginia-tech/. 

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

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!