Awards

Congratulations to Health Promotion Lab graduate student, Kelsey Arroyo for winning the Health Psychology Research Award from our department!…

Congratulations to HPL PhD student Andrea Brockmann, who won the Obesity and Eating Disorder Special Interest Group’s Top Flash Talk award during the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine! See their announcement below:…

HPL Ph.D. students Brittney Dixon, M.P.H., and Abe Eastman, M.A. M.S., both earned Meritorious Student Abstract Awards at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (previously scheduled for April 1-4, 2020, in San Francisco, CA. While the conference itself was cancelled due to COVID19, both abstracts have been published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine:

At the 2019 annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Andrea Brockmann, M.S., a first-year Ph.D. student in the Health Promotion Lab, was awarded the "Top Student Abstract Award" by the Obesity and Eating Disorders Special Interest Group. Andrea presented this abstract, entitled "Is it really a two-way street? Bidirectional association between exercise and stress in adults with overweight and obesity" as an oral presentation at this meeting.

Brittney Dixon, MPH, a public health Ph.D. student in the HPL lab, was accepted into the Rising Stars in Health-Related Sciences symposium to be held July 16-18 in Bloomington, Indiana. This symposium is hosted by David B. Allison, Ph.D., dean of the Indiana University School of Public Health, along with Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., M.S., R.D., from the University of Florida. The symposium will focus on networking, science, mentoring, and career development for underrepresented minority scholars in health-related sciences. Brittney was awarded up to $1,500 in costs to attend this symposium.

On October 31st, Dr. Kathryn Ross took part in the Early Career Lightning Talks competition at Obesity Week, the joint annual meeting of The Obesity Society and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. For this competition, 12 top-scoring abstracts submitted by early career researchers were selected. Researchers were…