Brooke defends dissertation
Congratulations to Brooke, who successfully defended her dissertation (with no revisions)! Her project is titled “The Missing Dimension: Incorporating Development into the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology.”
Congratulations to Brooke, who successfully defended her dissertation (with no revisions)! Her project is titled “The Missing Dimension: Incorporating Development into the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology.”
Brooke was featured in the Spring 2026 edition of the Psychology Matters Newsletter, where she wrote a piece titled “A Reflection on My Graduate Training: Bridging Science and Practice in the Juvenile Legal System.” You can read the article here (page 3).
Congratulations to LiChen, whose first-authored manuscript, in collaboration with Brooke Sasia and Dr. James Li, was recently accepted by Clinical Psychological Science (CPS). This manuscript is titled “Gene-Environment Interplay Beyond Interactions: Psychosocial Environments Mediate Genetic Effects Underlying Externalizing Behavior Trajectories.” Congratulations, LiChen!!
Congratulations to graduate student Emerald, who received a travel award to attend the 56th annual meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association Conference, which will be held in Amsterdam in June 2026!
Frank graduated with his PhD in May, 2025 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. He is directing the Measurement and Development of Youth Psychopathology Lab, and is interested in understanding and improving the generalizable measurement of youth mental health across diverse populations.
Congratulations to LiChen, who was selected for the campus-wide Advanced Achievement in Teaching Award! LiChen took on our graduate Psych 610/710 sequence, not once, but twice! Students commented on his dedication to their learning, openness to feedback, and focus on making the content more accessible. In his support letter, John Curtin shares one of LiChen’s …
Congratulations to Brooke on matching with the UCSF Child and Adolescent Services (CAS) Multicultural Clinical Training Program (MCTP)! The MCTP is embedded in the Division of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. This one-year clinical residency begins in fall 2026 and will …
Congratulations to Brooke and LiChen who recently presented at the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP) Conference in Vancouver!
A huge congrats to Frank, who defended his dissertation this week and graduated with his PhD! His dissertation was titled “Measurement Equivalence of a Clinical Interview of Youth Mental Disorders across Race and Ethnicity: Testing the Role of Socioeconomic Factors.” He is now moving to Dallas to become an Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University. …
Congratulations to Brooke, who has just been awarded the prestigious Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship by the Waisman Center. These competitive awards are given to graduate students working with a Waisman principal investigator and supports research, training, and tuition remission for a nine-month academic year. “The Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowships program was created in 1997 through …