Faculty Recognition
AWARDS
Sapna Cheryan received two REU Supplements to fund a cohort of three community college students to work in her lab during the next academic year.
Jen Forsyth received an R01 grant from National Institutes of Health, in the total amount of $3,420,832. The award is for her research titled: Genetic Risk for Serious Mental Illness and Development. This project will establish a new cohort of 3,000 children and early adolescents with risk of serious mental illnesses in the Paisa population of Colombia, and analyze the relationships between clinical and neurobehavioral signs and symptoms in childhood, individualized genetic risk profiles, and longitudinal clinical outcomes.
Katherine Foster and postdoctoral fellow Marilyn Piccirillo received a one-year, $20,000 award from the UW Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute. The award title is “Digital Phenotyping of Anxiety and Anxiety- Related Alcohol Co-occurrence.” Using novel methods, this project will investigate co-occurrence of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders with increased risk for alcohol use problems.
Ione Fine received first year funding of a five-year, sub-award from Columbia University, funded by NIH National Institute on Aging. The award is for her work titled: Early Age-Related Hearing Loss Investigation (EARHLI): A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Mechanisms Linking Early Age-Related Hearing Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. The study measures brain organization/connectivity. It is an early Phase II randomized controlled trial to obtain preliminary data on mechanisms and efficacy of a hearing aid-based intervention to prevent cognitive decline in those at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias.
Joe Sisneros received three-year funding from CUNY Brooklyn College, funded by NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The award title is Hormonal and Acoustic Regulation of the Dopaminergic Auditory Efferent System: Improving Detection of Social Acoustic Signals at the Level of the Inner Ear. This UW subaward project will set up and help run sound playback experiments where female midshipman fish are exposed to recorded male midshipman advertisement calls vs.controls, and will measure female behavioral response (phonotaxis) to synthesized advertisement call.
Shannon Dorsey received a Career Award from the Dissemination and Implementation Special Interest group (DIS-SIG) of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Liliana Lengua is part of two research teams that received Population Health Initiative Tier 2 Pilot Grants, for projects titled "Be REAL: A Task-sharing Approach to Implementing a Mental Health Prevention Program for College Students" and the project titled "NEW Parents Connect: Nurturing Emotional Wellbeing in Perinatal Parents Living in a Low-Income Context." In addition, research scient and staff member Stephanie Thompson is a co-investigator on the "NEW Parents Connect" project.
PUBLICATIONS
Research Professor Emeritus John Palmer and colleagues Cathleen M. Moore (University of Iowa) and James Pai (University of Washington) published their article "Divided attention effects in visual search are caused by objects not by space" in the Jounral of Vision.
Assistant Professor Tyler Jimenez and colleagues Peter J. Helm and Jamie Arndt had their paper "Racial Prejudice Predicts Police Militarization" published in Psychological Science.
Noah Triplett, Clara Johnson, Grace Woodard (U Miami), Julie Nguyen, Rashed AlRasheed, Frank Song, Sophia Stoddard, Jules Mugisha, Kristen Sievert and Professor Shannon Dorsey published a paper in Implementation Science Communications about stakeholder engagement to inform evidence-based treatment implementation for children's mental health. Paper: Stakeholder engagement to inform evidence-based treatment implementation for children’s mental health: a scoping review
Liying Wang and Professor Jane Simoni, along with colleagues from Florida State University, Northwestern University, University of Mississippi and the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention have a new article published in Transgender Health. Paper:
Health Service Utilization and Its Associations with Depression and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Transgender Women in Shanghai, China
Professor Peter Kahn and colleagues Audryana Nay, Joshua Lawler, and Gregory Bratman had their article, "Inequitable Changes to Time Spent in Urban Nature during COVID-19: A Case Study of Seattle, WA with Asian, Black, Latino, and White Residents" published in the journal Land.
Associate Professor Andrea Stocco, along with Holly Hake and Catherine Sibert, are published in Topics in Cognitive Science. Paper: "Inferring a Cognitive Architecture from Multitask Neuroimaging Data: A Data-Driven Test of the Common Model of Cognition Using Granger Causality"
Assistant Professor Ariel Starr and colleagues had their paper "Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning" published in Developmental Science.
Professor Shannon Dorsey and colleagues were published in Implementation Research and Practice. Paper: Expect the unexpected: A qualitative study of the ripple effects of children’s mental health services implementation efforts.