Congratulations to Frank He for receiving the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Award! The Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowships program was created in 1997 through the foresight and generosity of three major partners: the University of Wisconsin Foundation, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and alumni donors. The primary objective of the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowships program is …
Dr. Li has been awarded the inaugural A.A. Alexander Professorship to recognize significant collaboration between the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at UW–Madison. This is an endowed professorship that alternates every 5 years between Psychology and Psychiatry departments and its purpose is to recognize and strengthen collaborations between the two departments. Dr. Aristotle A. Alexander …
LiChen Dong from the University of Virginia has just accepted our offer of admission into the clinical psychology PhD program at UW–Madison! We look forward to working with him in the Fall of 2022 as he joins our lab and begins work on his graduate studies.
Graduate student Brooke Sasia successfully defended her First Year Project, earning her master’s degree! Her research examined the effect of polygenic scores for externalizing on developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior, and whether this relationship was mediated by supportive parenting behaviors. Congrats Brooke!
Research Assistant Sheyenne Tung has been accepted to the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee! She will begin pursuing her M.D. in August. Congratulations, Sheyenne!
Graduate student Quanfa (Frank) He’s manuscript “A Gene-Environment Interaction Study of Polygenic Scores and Maltreatment on Childhood ADHD” was recently accepted for publication in the journal Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. A preprint of the article is available to read here.
Dr. Li has been elected as the new co-chair for the diversity, equity, and inclusion workgroup of the HiTOP consortium. He’ll be working to address goals and priorities within HiTOP that have to do with DEI, including formal research directions relevant to DEI in HiTOP, initiatives to add more diversity among HiTOP members, and creating …
Undergraduate RA Grace Albright has been accepted to Master of Social Work programs at University of Denver, New York University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Boston University, Washington University, and Denver University program. She will be attending University of Minnesota in the fall. Congratulations, Grace!
Lab Manager Sharon Wang has been accepted to clinical psychology PhD programs at Georgia State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and University of Washington. She will be attending University of Washington in the fall. Congratulations, Sharon!
Undergraduate RA Leigha Schmidt has been accepted to University of Wisconsin–Madison’s EdS program, University of Minnesota’s EdS program, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s EdS and School Psychology PhD programs. Congratulations, Leigha!
