Dr. Rosanna Breaux, assistant professor and director of both the CALMER Lab and Child Study Center, was recognized with honorable mentions for two awards, the first for the Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, in which she came in second place. Watch the video now!
The second is for her recent publication in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – the
Dr. Tae-Ho Lee, assistant professor of psychology, along with Ben Katz, assistant professor of human development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Il Hwan Kim, an assistant professor from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, have earned a five-year $3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging for their study, "Losing Specificity: The role of the locus coeruleus in age-related
The VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research is delighted to announce that Kylie Bouchard and Delshad Shroff, mentored by VTCAR affiliate Rosanna Breaux, have received the VTCAR Student Award for 2022 to fund their research on “Evaluating the Short Sensory Profile 2 with Children and Adolescents with ASD and Comorbid Anxiety or ADHD”. Their research seeks to examine parent-reported sensory over responsivity and
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology Thomas Ollendick was recently ranked as one of the most influential figures in psychology by Research.com. Dr. Ollendick's highest rated manuscripts are an article published with Dianne Chambless on “Evidence-based Treatments” and his Fear Survey Schedule for Children – now translated into 13 languages. Even though Dr. Ollendick retired from Virginia Tech in June
Senior Psychology major Kylie Bouchard, under the mentorship of third year Clinical Science graduate student Delshad Shroff and Dr. Rosanna Breaux, received the 2022 VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research Student Award for her research project, “Evaluating the Short Sensory Profile 2 with Children and Adolescents with ASD and Comorbid Anxiety or ADHD.” Kylie has been working as an undergraduate research assistant
Congratulations to Psychology's assistant professor, Louis Hickman, and Department of Engineering Education's research scientist, Rockwell Clancy! The team won funding from Virginia Tech's Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science for "Towards a Global Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Exploring and Assessing Intercultural Ethical Perspectives on AI."
This is related to research on which Qin Zhu and
Congratulations to Heather Davis, who received funding from the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) for her proposal for the 2022-2023 Social Sciences PREP Program. Her research proposal examines shame as an underlying mechanism for eating disorders. Heather will also be part of a cohort to receive grant mentoring from the ISCE leadership team. Way to go, Heather!
Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay, "Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." Read more here.
Third-year clinical science graduate student, Delshad Shroff, was selected to receive the Society for Research in Child Development Patrice Engle Dissertation Grant Award, which supports students interested in a career in global early child development who are from or doing research in low- or middle-income countries. Shroff’s work for her dissertation, Examination of Emotion Socialization Practices During Early Childhood
Roseanne Foti was the invited speaker at the 13th annual Bass Distinguished Speaker Series on September 23. Her address, Implicit Leadership Theories: Past, Present, and Future concluded a full day event with current Ph.D. students, faculty, and alumni from Binghamton University School of Management. The annual event is supported by The Bernard M. and Ruth R. Bass Center for Leadership Studies, which has been at the
