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Please join us in congratulating some of our faculty Drs. Poppen and Moore and Applied Social Student Mary, who received awards yesterday at the Faculty Honors Ceremony!
Mary Jobe, WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award
Paul Poppen, Gold Anniversary (50 years)
Philip Moore, Silver Anniversary (25 years)
Congratulations 
Please join us in congratulating our first-year clinical student, Lauryn Hoard, who received NSF GRFP award for her project titled "‘Examining the effects of online vicarious racism on loneliness and social contact among Black college students: The role of racial identity."
This mixed methods project will investigate the relationships between online vicarious racism, loneliness, and intra- and intergroup contact among Black college students, and examine how racial identity might mitigate the negative effects of online vicarious racism.
Congratulations, Lauryn 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Mbaba on the successful defense of her dissertation, titled: The Stereotypical Yogi(ni): Exploring the Effects of Prototype Similarity and Racial Centrality on Black Adult Women’s Willingness to Practice Yoga.
A hearty thank you to the following faculty members for their valuable guidance and insight throughout the dissertation process:
Dr. Michelle Stock (committee member)
Dr. Ellen Yeung (committee member)
Dr. Sharon Lambert (examiner)
Dr. Jameta N. Barlow (examiner)
And a very special thank you to Dr. Paul Poppen for chairing the defense.
Congratulations Mary
