GWU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kira Wegner-Clemens who successfully defended her dissertation titled "The Influence of Audiovisual Semantics on Attention."
Special thanks to Dr. Sohn for chairing the defense; Drs. Kravitz and Rosenblau for serving as dissertation committee members; and Drs. Thothathiri and Mitroff for being readers.
Congratulations, Kira 
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bowleg and her 1st-year student Myla Lyons who spoke at the Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium for the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) Program at the University of Michigan .
Dr. Bowleg's talk was titled "Want to Be A Future HIV Prevention and Treatment Researcher? You're Going to Need to Critical (and Intersectional). She interviewed Myla about her experience as a first year doctoral student with critical theoretical perspectives and nontraditional research methods (e.g., qualitative).
At the end of the presentation, Dr. Gary Harper (the SOAR joint-PI and Myla's mentor when she was at SOAR) surprised them with beautiful glass prism plaques.
Please join us in congratulating our clinical student alumni - Devin English and Danielle Busby on their recent publication!
English, D., Oshin, L. A., Lopez, F. G., Smith, J. C., Busby, D. R., & Anestis, M. D. (2024). Systemic White supremacy: U.S. state policy, policing, discrimination, and suicidality across race and sexual identity. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000891
Congratulations
