Abigail Caselli, social psychology Ph.D. student, received funding from The Love Consortium through the John Templeton Foundation for her research project, An Examination of Conflict in Interracial Relationships: A Consideration of Constructive Accommodation.

Psychological Services Center (PSC) has resumed group services after a long pause with the onset of the pandemic. Our graduate students are running two evidence-based groups for children and adolescents this semester.

Benjamin Valen, a social psychology Ph.D. candidate, has received a grant from the NSF-GRFP for their research project, Outcomes of Affectionate Touch Among Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Couples: Effects of Gender Composition and Perceived Audience.

Emily Helminen, school psychology Ph.D. candidate, received funding from the Lesbian Health Fund for her research project, Effects of Self-Compassion Practice on Stress Reactivity Among Sexual Minority Women.

Jessica Powers, a clinical psychology Ph.D. candidate, received funding from NIDA for her NIH F31 Predoctoral NRSA Grant Application.

Sarah Woolf-King is collaborating on a project designed to reduce HIV incidence in East Africa.

Psychology professor Jillian Scheer's work will define hazardous drinking risk factors, patterns, and comorbidities among sexual minority women.

Natalie Russo and Michael Kalish will explore mechanisms that underlie perceptual differences in autism and how these change over the course of childhood.