News and Events

HPCS Colloquia

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HPCS presents a colloquia series during each academic semester. Check here for our schedule of speakers:

• Fall 2018 Series
  
• Spring 2018 Series
  
• Fall 2017 Series
• Spring 2017 Series
• Fall 2016 Series
• Spring 2016 Series
• Fall 2015 Series
• Spring 2015 Series
• Fall 2014 Series
• Spring 2014 Series
• Fall 2013 Series

Noteworthy

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• Professor Tracey A. Revenson, has been appointed as a founding member of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council (BMRC). The BMRC is the centerpiece of a novel and ambitious plan to advance the science and practice of evidence-based behavioral medicine.
  
• Congrats to Jonathan Lopez-Matos! Jonathan has been awarded a 2-year training award through NIDA obtain training in quantitative and qualitative methods, ethics, and research dissemination related to ethnically diverse young gay and bisexual men (YGBM).
• Congrats to Thomas Whitfield who has been awarded an F31 Fellowship from NIMH to investigate familiarity with, intentions to begin, and barriers to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake overtime among HIV at-risk young gay and bisexual men!
• Congratulations to Jorge Cienfuegos-Szalay for receiving a 2 year diversity supplement award from NIH! Congrats Jorge!
• Professor Michael Hoyt was named as a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Congratulations Michael!
• Professor Tracey Revenson was named as a Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society. Congratulations Tracey!
• Katie Darabos is in the news! See here for more.
• Ashley Polokowski was awarded a uBiome National Microbiome Initiative Impact Fund 2017-2019 award for nearly $10,000 in research costs. Congrats,  Ashley!
• Katie Darabos has received the 2017 Raymond K. Mulhern Scholarship Award from the American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology in recognition of innovative research that enhances the power of psychology to elevate the human condition.
• Professor Jon Rendina receives an award from NIMH to study to how stigma is associated with mental and physical health outcomes for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men. Click  here for more information.
• Congrats to graduate student Katie Darabos. Katie was awarded a six year predoctoral to postdoctoral fellowship grant from NCI to examine technology-based support in young adult cancer survivors. Click here for more information.
• Professor Tracy Dennis receives a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study adolescent anxiety! Read more here.
• Welcome to our new incoming class! We welcome Jorge, Caroline, Beverlin, Jonathan,  Laurel, Trey, and Irina to the HPCS  community!!
• CHEST receives grant funding to study factors that affect seroconversion among MSM! Read more here.
• Dr. Tyrel Starks has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), totaling $4,701,017, to test an individually-delivered intervention intended to reduce drug use and HIV incidence among HIV negative men in relationships with other men. Read more here.
• Dr. Regina Miranda has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (totaling $1.56 million over 4 years), to conduct a longitudinal study examining suicide ideation among adolescents recruited from two New York City hospitals. Read more here.
• Congrats to graduate student Brett Millar on his sole-authored paper: "Clocking self-regulation: Why time of day matters for health psychology" recently accepted for publication in Health Psychology Review.
• Professors Tracey Revenson and Michael Hoyt have been named Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine! See more information here.
• Congrats to graduate student Ray Moody. Ray was awarded a two year dissertation grant from NIDA to examine syndemic factors in gay and bisexual men. Click here for more information.
• HPCS Doctoral student Ashley Polokowski receives an $80K grant to conduct a two-phase study the impact of omega-3 fatty acids and probiotics on anxiety and depressive symptoms through the alteration of the gut microbiome and subsequent inflammatory response. Congratulations Ashley!
• HPCS has been granted the status of a Licensure-Qualifying Doctoral Program by the New York State Education Department.  Our clinical curriculum meets the rigorous educational requirements for obtaining licensure as a Psychologist in New York State. 
• Congrats to Mani Garcia on his acceptance in the Yale Ciencia Academy!
• Congratulations to CHEST and Dr. Jeff Parsons on CHEST's 20th Anniversary Symposium HIV Research that Informs Policy: Past, Present, and Future at Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.
• Dr. Jeff Parsons, the Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), and collaborators launch a new eHealth Intervention to prevent HIV among adolescent MSM. Click here for more information.
• Congrats to Mani Garcia on his recent win of a surprise  “Shark Tank” challenge at the NEURAL conference! Mani presented his "Flexible Field Recordings of Central and Peripheral Electrophysiology" idea.