Congrats to Brooke & LiChen for receiving Psychology-Psychiatry Summer Fellowships! These fellowships are sponsored by Dr. A.A. Alexander for students with a connection to Psychiatry to support summer research activities.
James, Frank, Brooke, LiChen, and Zibby (one of our awesome undergraduate RAs) attended the HiTOP conference in Denver, CO this week! James served as the Conference Chair and Frank, Brooke, and LiChen served on the Conference Committee. Frank chaired a symposium called “Advancing the Understanding of the Structure of Psychopathology with Nontraditional Quantitative Approaches and …
Congrats to LiChen who received a travel scholarship to attend ISRCAP in Vancouver, Canada this June!
Congrats to Brooke, whose first-authored manuscript in collaboration with PI Dr. James Li, titled “Associations of polygenic scores and developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors,” was published in Development and Psychopathology!
Congratulations to LiChen, who received a Psychology Department TA Award. He has TA’d for our graduate-level statistics courses, Psych 610 and 710, for two years. We are so happy his hard work was awarded!
Frank He, who accepted a faculty position at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX! He will be joining the Department of Psychology as a tenure-track assistant professor in August, 2025. Meanwhile, Frank is working hard on his dissertation research, with a defense date of early May. Congratulations, Frank!
Congrats to Brooke and LiChen, whose abstracts were accepted for poster presentations at The International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP) in Vancouver, Canada in June 2025! Brooke will be presenting her project titled “HiTOP Dimensions vs. DSM Diagnoses of Externalizing Behaviors: Predicting School Performance in Adolescence” and LiChen will be presenting …
James, Frank, Brooke, and LiChen all attended the Society for Research in Psychopathology conference in Montreal, Canada this month. James gave a talk titled “Enhancing the Discriminatory Power of Neurodevelopmental Polygenic Scores in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples,” while Frank, Brooke, and LiChen each presented a poster.
Congrats to Brooke for receiving a Student Research Grants Competition Award for travel to SRP in Montreal this October!
Qi Zhang, or now Dr. Zhang, successfully defended her dissertation on Friday, April 26th 2024. Qi’s dissertation, which she presented elegantly to her committee, features complex interplay among aspects of parenting, offspring forgiveness, and mental health. Congrats, Qi, for receiving your PhD and wish you all the best with whatever comes next!
