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2023 Commencement Award Recipients

During the May 2023 commencement ceremony for the department of psychology, five undergraduate students were the recipients of graduation awards. The recipients and the specific award given, along with their associated faculty advisors, are listed below. Congratulations to all! 

Outstanding Senior Award, And Research Excellence Award
Loralee Hoffer, worked with Dr. E. Scott Geller of the CABS Lab

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Danielle Martino Selected to Receive the 2023-2024 Hulick Serving Spirit Award

Congratulations to Danielle Martino, Clinical Science doctoral student and PANDA Lab student clinician, who has been selected to receive the 2023-2024 Hulick Serving Spirit Award!!  This award supports 2 years of professional and academic training for a graduate student in the disabilities field seeking to pursue a service or research career that will positively impact special needs populations and their families

CAP Lab Undergraduate Research Assistants Win Awards

Congrats to CAP Lab undergrad research assistants Trisha Ravigopal and Poojaa Kalathur who recently won awards at the Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium. Trisha received the “Karen Roberto Award for Social Science Research”. Trisha was mentored by graduate student Mohamed Zerrouk. Poojaa Kalathur received 2nd place in the “ICTAS Adaptive Brain and Behavior” research category. Poojaa was

Ivan Hernandez, Weiwen Nie, and Joseph Meyer Win the SIOP Machine Learning Competition

Ivan Hernandez and Ph.D. alum Weiwen Nie, along with Joseph Meyer, won the Society for Industrial and Organizational Society (SIOP) Machine Learning (ML) competition.  The goal of the competition was to use natural language processing to predict evaluator scores of text-based responses from job candidates.  28 teams across the US and internationally competed in the challenge. Congratulations Ivan!

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Graduate Student Gabby Patarinski Receives Student Travel Scholarship

Gabby Patarinski, a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Science area, was recently selected to receive the highly competitive Student Travel Scholarship from the Academy for Eating Disorders. The funds will support her travel to present her research at the 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders in June 2023. Congratulations, Gabby! 

Dr. Scott Geller and CABS Team Complete Seed Grant Proposals for CALS

Scott Geller and his CABS team have just collaborated at completing two interdisciplinary seed grant proposals for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), which could lead to significant GRA support if the preliminary research findings are promising. One project is entitled, “The Cats in the Bag: An exploration of the benefits associated with taking a cat for a walk in a backpack.” As the title reveals, this

The Future of Surveys: Voice Over Internet Surveys

How many online surveys have you taken in your lifetime? Was there ever a time where the questions weren’t quite applicable and you wished there was an option to just speak to someone or leave an audio message to reflect what your answer would be? Well, you may have that option in the near future. Graduate research assistant and Ph.D. student Teresa Ristow and Dr. Ivan Hernandez, assistant professor and director of the

Dr. Rosanna Breaux Recipient of 2023 Abidin Early Career Award and Grant

Rosanna Breaux, PhD, assistant professor of the department of psychology and director of the Child Study Center and CALMER Lab, was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Abidin Early Career Award and Grant. The award is intended to recognize an early career psychologist who has established a program of empirical research that has had a major impact on the field’s understanding of psychopathology, prevention, assessment