Fall 2007

Shackman and Kortenkamp Awards

Population Health--Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Dissertation Grants have been awarded to Jessica Shackman and Katherine Kortenkamp.  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program is designed to build the nation's capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the broad range of factors that affect health.

"Study pinpoints factors for early sex"

A study by graduate student Myeshia Price and Professor Janet Hide indicates that there's a "recipe" that raises the odds of a teen starting sex early, and the more risky ingredients in a child's life - for example, not feeling close to parents, low self-esteem and lots of TV - the more likely he is to be sexually active by age 15. The results of the study, presented at the recent conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, were featured in this story in USA Today.

Christine Moberg received a Tursky Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research for her outstanding poster on “Alcohol selectively affects anxiety but not fear”, co-authored with Jason Jaber and John Curtin.  The Society selected just three posters from more than 320 for this award.

SPRING 2007

Sarah Short has been selected for a Scholar Award from the American Psychosomatic Society. The award, based on an accepted abstract, will support her travel to the 2007 Annual Meeting of the APS in Budapest, Hungary


SUMMER 2006

Sarah Sahni was awarded a predoctoral NRSA from NIH (National Institutes of Deafness and Communication Disorders.

2005-2006 Marian Schwartz Award winners are Daniel Acheson and James Keidel.

Katie Cronin received the second place prize for the best student paper (out of more than 100 student presentations) at the Congress of the International Primatological Society held in Entebbe, Uganda in June, 2006

Alison Wismer Fries has been selected to receive the Jeanette Anderson Hoffman  Memorial Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from the Waisman Center.

March 2006
From bands to electroencephalograms

Graduate student Erin McMullen and her research are highlighted in the March 2006 issue of gradPsych.