In further testament to our outstanding graduate students and their mentorship, Angie Jain has won an award from the highly competitive M.I.A.M.I. WOMEN Giving Circle Hawk Tank! Angie successfully “pitched” her idea to implement a Dialectical Behavior Therapy program at Miami. Congrats to Angie and her mentor, Vaishali Raval!
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Congrats to our newest *two* NSF Grad Research Fellows!
Huge congratulations to Shelby Ortiz and Akanksha Das for their receipt of NSF Graduate Research Fellowships! I also applaud April Smith and Elise Clerkin for their mentorship of these rising stars. We had many of our other outstanding students apply that should all be recognized for their efforts as well.
Grad student featured in ABCT spotlight
Congratulations to Laurel Sarfan, who was featured in the research spotlight by ABCT! Laurel trains in the Clinical area with Elise Clerkin, and was recognized for her work on “the cognitive and emotion regulation factors that drive psychopathology.”
Congrats to a grad student!
Congratulations to Lauren Forrest, our third recent recipient of the P.E.O. Scholar Award. Read more about Lauren here and thanks to April for her mentorship! Way to go REDS lab!
NIH R15 funding prospects
From Jim Oris, OARS:
You may not be aware that NIH recently updated criteria for NIH R15 AREA grants. These grants have always been focused on universities that have a relatively small profile at NIH and have an undergraduate component. The new change gives high priority for research with an undergraduate focus. We predicted that this will allow Miami proposals to be more competitive, and now, based on input from Gary Lorigan (who has served on these panels), it appears that our predictions are correct.
More information can be found here. Both Jim and Gary are willing to consult with faculty interested in pursuing this funding mechanism. I would encourage any of you who are considering options for external funding to take a look at this; the next deadline is June 25.
Congrats to our 3MT finalists!
Congratulations to our six finalists for the Three Minute Thesis competition, all of whom did an outstanding job and represented the department well! Elizabeth Sneddon, mentored by Anna Radke, won 2nd place for her talk, “To Drink or Not To Drink?” Other contestants and their faculty mentors were:
Lauren Jones (w/ Liz Kiel), “Does having compassion for yourself help with parenting?”
Sarah Adut (w/ Josh Magee), “Mental health treatments at our fingertips”
Elizabeth Pettit (w/ Joe Johnson), “Food for thought: Can eye tracking predict your decisions?”
Annika Goldman (w/ Josh Magee), “The influence of cognitive concerns on intrusive thinking in older adults”
Dani Tapp (w/ Matt McMurray), “Invest in a better treatment for addiction”
Congrats to our newest clinical interns!
Please join me in congratulating all of our 10 clinical graduate students who successfully matched with some top-notch internship sites! We are extremely proud as a department of all of you and know that you will represent the program well. Recognition also goes to their mentors and Aaron as DCT for the hard work and preparation in helping these students to be so successful. Students and their sites follow:
Dorian Dodd – State University of New York – Buffalo
Lauren Forrest – Yale University – Psychiatry
Annie Kalomiris – Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Julia Kaufman – Atlanta VA Health Care System
Alex McConnell – VA Medical Center – Durham
Alex Nyquist – University of Minnesota Medical School
Marie Parsons – VA Boston Healthcare System
Becca Passarelli – St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium
Laurel Sarfan – VA Northern California Health Care System
Keshia Wagers – WVU Medicine: Univeristy Healthcare
Great news out of the Reds lab!
Some fantastic recognition for members of April Smith’s Reds lab, with an Article of the Year and a new graduate award! See the department’s Facebook page for more.
Fulbright student program
From Karla Guinigundo, Global Initiatives:
Global Initiatives is currently recruiting Miami’s cohort of applicants for the 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports approximately 2,000 U.S. students to engage in study, research, or English teaching assistantships abroad annually.
Academic excellence, leadership, and a commitment to increasing intercultural understanding between the Americans and citizens of other countries are qualities the Fulbright program seeks in applicants.
Nominations by faculty members can be a powerful source of motivation for students. Are there students in your departments or programs that you think would be interested in learning more about Fulbright? If so, please Nominate a Student and we will reach out with an invitation to attend one of the spring information sessions.
Market research opportunity for students. Oh, and $100
As Vaishali has announced, Miami social Ph.D. alum Matt Groebe will be hosting focus groups in his current industry position on March 5 & 6. You might direct students to this opportunity; Matt writes:
Are you interested in seeing how qualitative research is conducted in the field? Would you also like to make $100? If you answered yes to both questions, follow the link below to complete a brief online screener for several upcoming focus groups that will be held in the Psychology Building. Mane Inc., a flavor and fragrance company based in Lebanon, OH, will be visiting campus on March 5th and 6th to conduct focus groups aimed at learning more about the values, attitudes, and experiences of consumers ages 18 – 23. Come see how psychological research methods can be applied in the field!