Congratulations to Ben Parchem who just accepted the Ettner Fellowship with the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. This is a two-year postdoc with very prestigious researchers.
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Congratulations to our Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Awardees
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences congratulates the following winners of funding to support their research with PBS faculty this summer:
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships (summer support for research)
· Cristina Cestone (with Dr. Stock) on the implications of exclusionary and inclusionary political speech
· Xavia Fields (with Dr. Rosenblau) on adolescents’ knowledge about peers’ preferences in relation to their brain activity
Undergraduate Research and Service Grants (smaller awards for research expenses)
· Rachel Keshtgar (with Dr. Sigelman) on communication between fathers and their young children during military deployments
· Saba Rentia (with Dr. Dodge) on fixed and growth mindsets about drug use and views concerning medical treatments of opioid use disorder
Congratulations and best of luck with this interesting and important research!
Awards and fellowships!
Congratulations on these recent fellowships awarded to Psychology folks!
Psychology major, Melissa Baker, has been awarded a Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She will work with faculty mentor, Dr. Mimi Le on a project titled, "The Relationship Between Physical Activity Levels & Postpartum Depression Symptoms at 6 Weeks Postpartum".
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student, Sanam (Sammy) Dhaliwal, has been awarded a George Washington University Summer Dissertation Fellowship for her project, "The Role of Sleep Disruption in the Onset of Perinatal Depression" Sammy's faculty mentor is Dr. Mimi Le.
Applied Social Psychology Ph.D. student, Steffi Renninger, has been awarded a George Washington University Summer Dissertation Fellowship for her project, "Adaptive and Maladaptive Responses to Weight Loss Failure among Middle-Aged Men: The Potential Moderating Role of Achievement Goals." Her faculty mentor is Dr. Tonya Dodge.
Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Patrick Cox, received an Early Career Travel Grant to attend the upcoming Vision Sciences Society meeting in St. Petersburg, FL in May. Patrick works with Dr. Steve Mitroff.
Sanam (Sammy) Dhaliwal and Maria Cimporescu, who were awarded Richard Walk Dissertation Fellowships! Sammy’s research mentor is Dr. Mimi Le, and her project is entitled “The Role of Sleep Disturbance in the Onset of Perinatal Depression”. Maria’s mentor is Dr. George Howe, and her project is “Stress Appraisal of Anticipatory Stressors Related to the Transition Out of College”
We wish all of them the best in these endeavors!
