2023 - Congratulation to graduate student Melanie Grad-Freilich for being awarded an NIH-funded Behavioral Brain Research Training Program (B2) Fellowship from the Pitt/CMU Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition!
2023 - Congratulations to graduating student Stefanie Sequeira on starting a tenure track Assistant Professor Position in the Clinical Program at University of Virginia!
2023 - Congratulations to graduate student Kirsten McKone! She was awarded seed research funding from the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at Pitt for novel research on
2023 - Congratulations to grad student Melanie Grad-Freilich for winning an Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant Award and a Huey Research Award from the department to expand minority recruitment in the Teen SCREEN Study!
2023 - Congratulations to former FEND undergrad Ken Goodrich on being selected as a Hot Metal Bridge Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year!
2023 – Affiliated faculty member Lauren Blysma was promoted to Associate Professor and named a Fellow of the Society for Psychophysiological Research!
2022 - Congratulations to grad student Zelal Kilic for winning a $1000 Lazovik Award grant from the Psychology Department! She will use the funds to collect and analyze photographic data from Instagram as an add-on to the Teen Screen Study!
2023 - Congratulations to graduate student Kirsten McKone! She was awarded an E.B. Huey Research Grant to validate a measure of climate anxiety in a sample of adolescents.
2023 - Congrats to our undergraduate research assistant Anvi Joshi, who was awarded a summer research fellowship from the Mascaro Center for
2023 - Congratulations to graduate student Quyen Do for being selected as the Developmental Program recipient for the 2023 Jeremy Landen Johnson Memorial Award for her Masters thesis research!
2023 - Congratulations to affiliated faculty member Mary Woody! She was awarded a Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF) Depression Fellowship.
2022 - Mary Woody was awarded a University of Pittsburgh Innovation Challenge (PInCh) Award. Congrats, Mary!
2023 - Congratulation to graduate student Melanie Grad-Freilich for being awarded an NIH-funded Behavioral Brain Research Training Program (B2) Fellowship from the Pitt/CMU Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition!
2023 - Check out this podcast on Drs. Silk and James' paper showing a beneficial side to texting and videochat for teen connectedness & mental health during COVID.
2022- Congratulations to graduate student Stefanie Sequeira for being named one of 3 national winners of the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology Dissertation Grant Award.
2022- Congratulations to lab director, Dr. Jennifer Silk, and her colleague Dr. Cecile Ladouceur, for receiving an R01 grant from the NIMH: “Neural sensitivity to social evaluation and daily online and in-person social experience with peers: Predicting fluctuations in suicidality, self-harm, and depressive symptoms in adolescent girls”. This study examines how socially threatening and rewarding peer interactions—experienced online or in-person—contribute to real-time fluctuations in suicidality, self-harm, and depressive symptoms, independently and in interaction with neural
2022- Congratulations to lab director, Dr. Jennifer Silk, and her colleague Dr. Erika Forbes, for receiving an R01 grant from the NIMH: “Social-Affective Vulnerability to Suicidality among LGBTQ Young Adults: Proximal and Distal Factors.” This project uses ecological momentary assessment, neuroimaging, and machine learning to examine how real-time social interactions, and associated neural responses, predict increases in suicidal thoughts and behaviors among LGBT late adolescents and young adults.
2022- Congratulations to Gaduate Student Quyen Do for receiving the 2022 Merle Moskowitz Graduate Student Teaching Award!
2022- Congratulations to Mary Woody, PhD, for receiving the Brain & Behavior Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant!
2021 - Congratulations to former GIRLS: Brain Research Coordinator, Kayley Morrow for accepting an offer at the University of Georgia in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program!
2022 - Congratulations to former lab manager, Sarah Wang, for accepting an offer at the University of Maryland in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program.
2022 - Congratulations to former Teen SCREEN Research Coordinator, Celine Lu, for accepting an offer at the University of Washington in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program.
2022 - Congratulations to graduate student, Kirsten McKone for receiving the Jeremy Johnson Award!
July 2022- See this month's article from the APA monitor discussing the neuroscience of the adolescent brain, which includes some mention of the work in our lab! Read the full article.
2022- Congratulations to graduate student Stefanie Sequeira for matching at Brown University’s Internship Program and winning the 2022 Bassell Student Award, given by the Psychology department to an outstanding student heading off to internship.
2022- Congratulations to graduate student Quyen Do for winning an Outstanding Student Panel Award at the 2022 Pitt Grad Expo!
2021- Congratulations to Mary Woody, PhD, for receiving a Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science!
2021 - Congratulations to FEND Lab's former affiliated post-doctoral scholar for becoming an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University! Check out her website here: thehamiltonlab.org