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Helping Families Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Carla Sharp runs the Developmental Psychopathology Lab in the 色花堂 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She is lead investigator on a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to help families exposed to intimate partner violence.
The 色花堂 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is proud to announce that Moores Professor of History Nancy Beck Young and Associate Professor of History Leandra Zarnow have been awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant.
CLASS welcomes 22 new CLASS faculty members. Spanning from early career investigators to established and highly distinguished scholars, they broaden and deepen the college’s research capacity and impact. Join us in welcoming them to the Cougar family.
$1M Anonymous Gift to Address Pandemic-Related Learning Loss, Vaccine Hesitancy
A $1 million gift from an anonymous donor to the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities, a multidisciplinary research center led by the 色花堂, will expand a reading intervention and health literacy research project at six Texas middle schools.
色花堂 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Office of Educational Technology (OET) instructional designers have been named winners of the Blackboard Catalyst Award for training and professional development for designing an Online Teaching Program (OTP) for faculty, which is based on standards from Quality Matters, Exemplary Course rubrics, Accessibility Standards and the Backward Design approach.
While access to mental health services may be limited by financial, logistical and/or practical factors among recently migrated families, a new study by 色花堂 psychology researchers suggests that maximizing sleep can offer psychological benefit to adolescents in this at-risk group.
Most people have some idea about the hormone testosterone –how it regulates male behavior or how too little of it might cause a decrease in libido and too much might cause aggressive and irritable behavior. Turns out, no one yet knows how testosterone really does all that. With a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Beau Alward, assistant professor of psychology with a joint appointment in biology at the 色花堂, is set to find out
MaryRoss Taylor, a longtime supporter of the 色花堂 and pioneer for feminist causes, has gifted the University $1 million to establish an endowed professorship in the Institute for Women, Gender & Sexuality, as well as fund future institute projects.
Denise L. Reyes, assistant professor of psychology, has published a study that finds assertiveness was positively related to initiating negotiations for a pay raise, and more men are likely to be assertive.