GWU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Leading research, practice, and education in the science of psychology
Please join us in congratulating our newest Ph.D. graduates from Applied Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience who were recently honored at the doctoral hooding ceremony. In addition, Dr. Ellen Yeung (Assistant Professor in Applied Social Psychology) received a well-deserved award for mentoring of graduate students. Congratulations to all 
Please join us in congratulating ASP student Stacy Post on her co-authored article titled, The effect of GLP-1 receptor agonist use on negative evaluations of women with higher and lower body weight.
Post, S. M., & Persky, S. (2024). The effect of GLP-1 receptor agonist use on negative evaluations of women with higher and lower body weight. International Journal of Obesity, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-024-01516-4
Congratulations Stacy
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.
