GWU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Check out our Clinical Psych graduate students and alumni who presented this past month at the Society for Research on Adolescence Conference!
They did an amazing job and we are proud of them 
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.
