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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sarah Calabrese who has been awarded a Fulbright Future Scholarship through the Fulbright US Scholar Program to conduct research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, during the spring semester of 2023.

Dr. Calabrese will partner with leading HIV experts and stigma interventionists to conduct qualitative research with healthcare providers and sexual minority men with HIV in both Australia and the US. The research will inform the development of a web-based intervention aimed at enhancing healthcare providers’ communication with patients about the latest HIV biomedical advances, correcting outdated misconceptions about HIV transmission risk, and reducing HIV stigma. Students on Dr. Calabrese's research team, the Sexuality & Health Equity Lab, will be integrally involved in the project.

Congratulations Dr. Calabrese!

Please join us in congratulating soon-to-be-Dr. Mimi Tekeste on successfully defending her dissertation today, which is titled: Ethiopian Immigrants in the US: The Implications of Perceived Public Mental Illness Stigma and Mistrust of Mental Health Providers for Mental Health Help-Seeking Intentions. Excellent work, Mimi!

A special thanks to her committee, Drs. Maria Cecilia Zea, Christina Gee, Tamara Taggart, and Noemi Enchautegui de Jesus for the support and mentorship they have given Mimi throughout the process!
And thank you to Dr. Ganiban for chairing the defense.

Please join us in congratulating Clinical psychology doctoral student, Ben Parchem, on his first-authored publication, "Perceptions of power and sexual pleasure associated with sexual behaviour profiles among Latino sexual minority men"! His co-authors include several Clinical and Applied Social alums and faculty. Congrats to all!

Benjamin Parchem, Rodrigo A. Aguayo-Romero, Ana María del Río-González, Sarah K. Calabrese, Paul J. Poppen & Maria Cecilia Zea (2020) Perceptions of power and sexual pleasure associated with sexual behaviour profiles among Latino sexual minority men, Culture, Health & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1781263