FEND News
2016-FEND graduate student Dana Rosen receives the Bassell Publication Award.
2017-The FEND lab completes the Using Smartphones to Enhance Treatment of Childhood Anxiety (SmartCAT) study.
2017-Lauren Bylsma is awarded a Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant. Her project is entitled Gut Microbiome Influences on Reward and Stress Systems in Depressed, High Risk, and Healthy Adolescents. The project is scheduled to begin in January of 2018 and continue for 2 years.
2017-FEND student Elisa Borrero receives the University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences Post-Baccalaureate Hot Metal Bridge Fellowship.
2017-FEND post-doc Mary Woody receives the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Annual Research Day Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation. Mary received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Binghamton University in August 2017, as well as the Neurocognitive and Translational Research SIG Best Poster Award at the 2017 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Meeting.
2017-Dr. Judith Morgan receives an NIMH BRAINS Award as well as a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.
2017-FEND graduate student Rosalind Elliott receives her Master's Degree.
2016 - FEND post-doc Caroline Oppenheimer is awarded a Career Development Grant from the NIMH and appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her project focuses on the neural underpinnings of social rejection and associations with mood in teen girls. Congratulations Caroline!!
2015 – The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry’s 2015 Developmental Affective Neuroscience Symposium was held from October 8th through 9th, 2015. Please click here or visit www.psychiatry.pitt.edu/node/9402 for more information about this event.
2015 - Former FEND undergraduate Kevin Tang organizes a mental health art exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh.
2015 – Lab Director Jennifer Silk and collaborator Dr. Cecile Ladouceur receive an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the role of social threat and reward processing in the onset of anxiety and depression in adolescent girls.
2015 – Graduate student Rosalind Elliott is awarded as a Millennium Scholar at the Society for Research in Child Development.
2015 – Lab Director Jennifer Silk is named the recipient of the 2015 UPPDA Mentor Award AND the 2015 National Postdoctoral Association Mentor Award in recognition of her exceptional mentoring of post-doctoral scholars.
2015 – Graduate student Marlissa Amole is named a recipient of the E.B. Huey Award.
2014 – Graduate student Rosalind Elliott is awarded the University of Pittsburgh K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship.
2014 – The FEND lab welcomes three new clinical psychology graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh, Rosalind Elliott, Dana Rosen, and Marlissa Amole.
2014 – The FEND lab welcomes new post-doctoral student Caroline Oppenheimer.
2014 – Post-doctoral student Kristy Benoit Allen is named a research fellow at the Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) Research Training Institute.
2014 – Post-doctoral student Kristy Benoit Allen receives a Career Development Leadership Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
2014– Graduate student Marlissa Amole is named a recipient of the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.
2014 – Lab Director Jennifer Silk receives a R34 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the use of smartphone technology to enhance treatment for childhood anxiety.
2013 – The SmartCAT app, created by Lab Director Jennifer Silk and colleage Dr. Bambang Parmanto, receives the Behavioral Health Patient Empowerment Challenge Award by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Read More >
2013 – Graduate student Marlissa Amole is awarded the University of Pittsburgh K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship.
2013 – Rosalind Elliott receives the University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences Post-Baccalaureate Hot Metal Bridge Fellowship.
2012 – Marlissa Amole recieves the University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences Post-Baccalaureate Hot Metal Bridge Fellowship.