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Dr. McDonnell was recently recognized for receiving the International Society for Autism Research's Young Investigator Award, an award given to an outstanding early career researcher for contributions to autism research. The Young Investigator Awards are granted annually for the best empirical research papers published or in press in the year 2018 by an investigator who has been awarded their Ph.D. or M.D. in the past

Dr. Tom Ollendick has become the winner of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy’s lifetime achievement award for significant and enduring contributions to the field of cognitive and behavioral therapies!  Please join in congratulating Dr. Ollendick on achieving this tremendous honor and visit this page to learn about his achievements https://www.academyofct.org/page/TOllendick2019

Dr. Ollendick will receive the award at the

Please join me in congratulating this year’s 2019-20 VTCAR SEED Student Award recipient. Tyler McFayden  is working with mentor Dr. Robin Panneton and co-mentor Dr. Tom Ollendick. Her study is titled “Social & Nonsocial Multisensory Integration in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Tyler has also been named the VTCAR Student Fellow of the Year.

Congratulations  to Dr. McFayden!

Inflammation is related to a number of psychological and health-related factors. However, inflammatory activation is challenging to induce and measure in laboratory settings. Here, we introduce several new techniques and procedures for precisely inducing inflammation using ultraviolet (UV) light.  These methods are based on a technique known as minimal erythema dose (MED) testing, which is frequently used in clinical

The Virginia Tech Autism Clinic and Center for Autism Research and the Washington Group Special Care Planning Team recently hosted the 5th annual Autism Research Symposium in Falls Church, Virginia. This groundbreaking Symposium featured autism research from biomedical and imaging, technology, education and clinical translational fields. Participants had opportunities to network and were also able to tour the VT Mobile

Meet our new faculty. Andrea Pittarello is a new collegiate assistant professor with the Department of Psychology. He tells us, “I study why, when, and how people from all walks of life lie, steal, cheat, and what can be done about it. I chose Virginia Tech because I want to collaborate with economists, psychologists, and engineers to help people make better decisions.” For more information on Dr. Pittarello, check the

New faculty spotlight: meet Kasey Stanton, Assistant Professor in our Department of Psychology. Keep watching to get his take on personality research and why it matters. For more information about Dr. Stanton, look at the links down below:

VT: https://support.psyc.vt.edu/users/kjstanton

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2xrR4xnkK0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Six faculty members in the Virginia Tech College of Science were honored with faculty fellowships by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, one of the six was our very own, Martha Ann Bell.

The awards were approved at the August meeting of the Board of Visitors. Each of the three-year fellowships is dedicated to recognizing faculty for extraordinary research and teaching, and for recruiting scholars with exceptional

Dr. Breaux was selected from a pool of well-qualified applicants by renowned experts in the field, for making contributions to understanding Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The award includes recognition in their Attention Magazine and at the 2019 Annual International Conference on ADHD in Philadelphia, PA where Dr. Breaux will  present her research during the award ceremony.

The College of Science established this fellowship to recognize faculty dedicated to extraordinary research and teaching.  Dr. Bell’s research is centered on developmental cognitive neuroscience where she studies frontal lobe functioning. She focuses on typically developing infants and children and examines individual differences in brain and behavior.  Her most recent contributions to developmental cognitive neuroscience