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Congratulations to Hayoung Ko for receiving approval for funding ($20,000) from the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute-Center for Health Behaviors Research (FBRI-CHBR) Pilot and Feasibility (P+F) Program. Her proposal entitled “Measurement Based Care for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change” will be in collaboration with Carilion Clinic’s Department of Psychiatry and

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

Research Excellence Awards
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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

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 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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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! 

University Libraries student and psychology major Kayla Jones explores emerging technology and finds a path for her future while doing so. Read more now.

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

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