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Congratulations to Natalie Koskella-Staples, who has been selected as the 2023 PHHP Doctoral Level Dean’s Scholar. This is one of the most prestigious honors the College of Public Health and Health Professions gives as recognition of exceptional students’ accomplishments. The award will be presented at the PHHP Individual Recognition Ceremony…
Joshua Owens, a fourth-year Neuropsychology student, has received two competitive travel awards. At the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimers Disease summer data workshop, Joshua will participate in intensive analytic training to use secondary data sources for supplementary publications and grant applications in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias…
Many of our faculty, graduate students, interns and post-docs attended the Society for Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference in Chicago on March 30th – April 1st. Congratulations to all the trainees for their numerous presentations at the conference! Notably, we would like to recognize the following CHP trainees who won awards…
Congratulations to Erin Corcoran, MS, a member of the Youth Risk and Resilience Lab within the Clinical and Health Psychology Department, who has been selected to receive the Routh Dissertation Award by the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. This award provides support for student research that “shows promise…
Congratulations to Manuela (Manny) Sinisterra, B.A., whose application for a 2022 Student Traineeship Award of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation was selected for funding. Her application titled: Understanding Caregiver Illness Burden in Management of Cystic Fibrosis in Young and School-Age Children: A Mixed Methods Study aims to use a mixed-methods…
Fall 2022 student rankings have been reviewed and five Clinical and Health Psychology faculty members have been recognized by Dean Beth Virnig for providing an excellent learning experience and receiving student rankings of 4.8 or higher for their courses. For Fall 2022, The Excellence in Teaching Award goes to:…
Congratulations to CHP’s doctoral researchers Lauren Kenney and Adrianna Ratajska with the UF Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, directed by Dawn Bowers, Ph.D. for receiving prestigious NIH F31 Fellowships! “The NIH F31 predoctoral training grants are highly prestigious research awards that go through the gauntlet of rigorous NIH peer review,” Bowers said.
A big congratulations to Jori Waner and Hailey Inverso, whose presentations tied for first place at PHHP Research Day on February 9, 2023, in the category Basic, Foundational and Pre-Clinical Research. Jori Waner (pictured left) for “Connecting memory and functional brain networks in older adults: A resting state fMRI study.”…
The 2023 Spring Spruce Up Team was out in full force recently for a service project to spruce-up the UF Health Psychology Specialties clinic! 2023 Spring Spruce Up Team Back Row (L to R): Jessica Payne-Murphy & Husband, Sam; Deidre Pereira Middle Row (L to R): Anjelica…
Congratulations to Dr. Pearl, recently featured in an article by Jill Pease titled Weight-stigma study identifies self-image paradox. For the study, more than 200 adults with a higher body weight — predominantly black or white women — participated in the group-based psychological intervention designed to reduce internalized weight stigma, delivered…
