Lab News Summer Semester 2022 Graduate student Will Schiavone defended his dissertation in May. Congratulations! Spring Semester 2022 Graduate student Julian Wright defended her Master's thesis in April. Congratulations! Fall Semester 2019 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Current and former MABLab members at the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists conference in Johnson City, TN. Congrats to everyone who presented! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ It's been a busy semester of success for our senior grad student, LeeAnn Haskins, whose second first-authored paper of the semester was just published online. Read about our simple but useful measure of qualities of support in dual-smoker couples here! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Congrats to lab member Shannon Falk on being accepted into the Doctorate of Physical Therapy program at Duke University!!! Go Duke! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Congratulations to LeeAnn Haskins whose FIRST first authored paper has just been published online! To access the paper please click here. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Free Tobacco cessation program called "Beat the Pack" Our lab is excited to be working with the College of Pharmacy to deliver this program. Please share broadly so that the Athens community knows about this awesome opportunity. For more information please check here. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Photos for the lab are finally hung! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Read our published research! Remember a few years back when we had ALL THE CAULIFLOWER in the lab ALL THE TIME? Our paper reporting the results of those studies has just been published. Read about the project here! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summer Semester 2019 Summer may mean things calm down on campus but our recent graduates are still out getting jobs and deciding on grad schools. Congratulations to Kadi Dial who will be going to Georgia State University to get her Masters in Public Health starting this fall! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spring Semester 2019 Congratulations class of 2019! We’re not ready to see you go but the world is definitely ready for you to see what you’re made of. Great things are ahead! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ The MAB Lab end of the semester dinner! We have many RAs that are graduating this semester that will be greatly missed. Thank you Dr.V for another great semester! __________________________________________________________________________________________ Congrats to Rachel who will be headed to the University of South Carolina for her Masters in Social Work! Rachel's field placement is in USC’s substance abuse prevention and education office. She will be helping Dr. Christina Andrews who studies the effects of new policies on opioid addiction treatment access and effectiveness. Go Rachel!!! __________________________________________________________________________________________ CURO 2019 was a big year for the MAB Lab team! We had 5 students present their posters. Additionally, Dr.V was awarded the 2019 CURO Research Mentoring Award! Dr.VanDellen accepting the CURO Research Mentoring Award! ________________________________________________________________________________ Tanisha presenting at CURO 2019! ________________________________________________________________________________ Carrie presenting at CURO 2019! ________________________________________________________________________________ Aminah presenting at CURO 2019! ________________________________________________________________________________ Molly presenting at CURO 2019! ________________________________________________________________________________ Annie presenting at CURO 2019! __________________________________________________________________________________________ Congratulations to Meagan who will be attending Washington University of St.Louis in the Fall of 2019! She will be completing the Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program before matriculating into medical school. ________________________________________________________________________________ Congratulations to Ivey Mccartney on accepting an an offer of admission to George Mason's I/O MA program!! Ivey was part of the MAB Lab Team and graduated from UGA in 2018! ________________________________________________________________________________ MAB Lab went to Pure Barre! Our first group visit was a blast! ________________________________________________________________________________ Congrats to MAB Lab alum Nicole Shifrin on finishing her Master's Thesis at Auburn University!! ________________________________________________________________________________ We are so proud of our lab alumni! Raha Sabet completed an Honors thesis in our lab in 2011. She went on to work at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University and to earn her PhD from the University of Miami. Just this week, she accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Primary Care Mental Health Integration with Behavioral Medicine at the Durham VA Medical Center. Woot, woot, Raha! _______________________________________________________________________________ Congrats to Carrie Mauldin on the CURO Fellowship! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The lab is running participants again for the Spring semester! We are currently looking for couples to participate in our smoking study. E-mail vandellenlab@gmail.com for more information! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fall Semester 2018 The end of Fall Semester lab dinner! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When 2,000+ participants (+ 13 staff 2-3x weekly) walk in and out of your space in a semester, you know it needs a good cleaning. Thanks to the CURO crew & grad students for joining me today to wipe everything down. We are ready for next semester! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Annie Somerville sharing early results from our newest study on gratitude and benefactor self-control. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Carrie Mauldin explains why people may not provide support to others when they need it at SSSP2018 in Raleigh. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Congratulations to lab members Annie Somerville and Tanisha Bhavnani for their CURO Fellowships!!
