Dr. Rosanna Breaux, assistant professor of Psychology and director of the Child Study Center at Virginia Tech, recently conducted studies that focused on children's mental health during the pandemic and their classroom performance. Based on that data, Breaux says that teachers may start to notice a greater amount of students suffering from anxiety, depression, irritability, and even aggression. Read more now.
Psychology faculty members Dr. Martha Ann Bell and Dr. Meagan Brem have been named recipients of the 2022-2023 Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE) Scholars program. Read more now.
Louis Hickman received funding for his project entitled "Automatic Scoring of Interpersonal Assessment Center" from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The project capitalizes on recent advances in text mining and machine learning (ML) to investigate the possibility of automating Assessment Center scoring and to examine specific factors that predict when ML models are likely to be accurate
Louis Hickman, Ph.D., recently had an article published in Journal of Applied Psychology. The article titled, "Automated Video Interview Personality Assessments: Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability Investigations" was highlighted in a recent post, "Using Computers to Assess Video Interviews: Does it Work?"
Dr. Hickman has recently joined Virginia Tech as a IO faculty member. Prior to Virginia Tech, Dr. Hickman
Psychology undergraduate student Lauren Meier has been awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association's Division 50 (Addiction Psychology) Student Poster Award for her poster, "Proximal Relations between LGBTQ+ Students' Alcohol Use and Cyber Abuse: The Role of Discrimination." Congratulations, Lauren!
Department of Psychology undergraduate research assistant Emma Larkin recently presented a poster at Virginia Tech's Dennis Dean Undergraduate Summer Symposium. The Dennis Dean Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium is a symposium where undergraduates across Virginia Tech present on research that they have been conducting. Emma’s research this summer was on how agreement among parents, adolescents, and clinicians may
Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate student Kelsi Cornett is currently working on two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion projects. The first project investigates weight-based discrimination by using a large data set collected from LinkedIn and a pre-trained CNN model to investigate the relationship among BMI, race, and gender and upward mobility. The second project uses natural language processing (NLP) to detect
The VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research is excited to offer Mobile Autism Clinic services this summer. Our graduate student clinicians are enjoying their training experience with the families referred by our partners - Mount Rogers Community Services and the Child Study Center.
Currently, our schedule is filled!
We are very grateful to our sponsors at the Washington Group Special Care Planning Team and CA
Dr. Pearl Chiu and Dr. Brooks King-Casas have received the Virginia Tech Graduate School 2021-2022 College of Science Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award. This award recognizes faculty members who mentor graduate students for their role in supporting, encouraging, and promoting a positive and inclusive scholarly and teaching environment, and for contributing to professional and personal development of graduate students
