GWU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Leading research, practice, and education in the science of psychology
Dr. Sharon Lambert has been awarded a grant from the Mind and Life Institute to evaluate a social justice, school-based mindfulness intervention for youth. This work builds from her work with Peace of Mind, a non-profit organization focused on teaching mindfulness-based social and emotional learning to elementary and middle school students.
You can read about the grant here.
Please join us in congratulating Clinical Psych Program Director Dr. Sharon Lambert, Dr. Roche (professor in the Milken Institute School of Public Health) and Dr. Vaquera (associate professor of sociology and public policy and public administration in CCAS and director of the GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute) along with the remainder of the interdisciplinary team of GWU researchers on being awarded a more than $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the impact of immigrant- and pandemic-related adversities on stress processes and indicators of health and well being for Latino/a adolescents.
Please click link to read more about this: https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-research-team-awarded-funding-study-impact-stress-adversity-latino-adolescents?fbclid=IwAR0XDbBDU3mATTpckFxs5jyIcYBwdTvlv8PQhlt-QFwzcosod_6mkU1QAZA
Congratulations to Dr. Mimi Le on her new $4.2 million Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant on maternal mental health in collaboration with local colleagues! Dr. Le is the Co-PI on this grant with local partner's at Children's Hospital. Congrats to all!
For details: https://innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/childrens-national-awarded-4-2-million-to-lead-maternal-mental-health-research-programs/
