News and Events

HPCS Colloquia

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

Noteworthy
  • HPCS has been granted APA accreditation on contingency!!! Per APA rules, the accreditation will be on contingency until the program has 3 years of program outcomes data.
2022
  • Congratulations to Boyang Fan for depositing his dissertation and accepting a postdoctoral position at the UC Davis MIND Institute.
  • Congratulations to Natalia Macrynikola, who has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School.  
  • Congratulations to Irina Mindlis for receiving the Multimorbidities and Multiple Health Behavior Change SIG's Outstanding Abstract Award on her poster presentation at the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 2022 Annual Meeting. The poster is entitled "Identifying Disease and Treatment-related Factors Associated with Illness Intrusiveness in Older Adults with Multimorbidity," coauthored with a Hunter undergrad, Brandon Fernandez, and Dr. Tracey Revenson. 
  • Congratulations to Joseph Carter, who received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for his R36 Dissertation Grant entitled: "Measuring event-level intersectional stigma among gender diverse youth." Joseph will be mentored by Dr. Danielle Berke and Dr. Jon Rendina.
  • Congratulations Beverlin Rosario-Williams on being awarded a Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship for her project entitled, "Investigating the Impact of Affect in Suicide-Specific Attentional Biases."
  • Congratulations to the following HPCS students for receiving Doctoral Student Research Grants (DSRGs) from The Graduate Center: Kara Buda, Joseph Carter, Abby Findley, Danielle Hazeltine, Chris Liong, Barb Storch, and David Yap.
  • Congratulations to this year's planning committee for a successful Big Apple Health Psychology Colloquium.  Begun by our current HPCS 5th- and 6th-year doctoral candidates, this is now the 4th Big Apple Health Psych Colloquium, a student-led event that brings together doctoral students from Psychology programs in the NYC area with an interest in health psychology, with two main goals: 1) to disseminate students' research; and 2) to foster an environment that encourages collaboration with students and faculty across CUNY and other universities in the New York City area.  This year's leadership committee was co-chaired by Chris Liong, and included Trey Dellucci, Sugandha Gupta, Zara Khan, Irina Mindlis, and Megan Wirtz, along with doctoral students from other NYC programs.
  • Congratulations to Natalia Macrynikola for successfully defending her dissertation.
  • Congratulations to Irina Mindlis for successfully defending her dissertation.
  • Congratulations to Zeba Ahmad for successfully defending her dissertation.
  • Congratulations to Luke Nicholls on being awarded a Paul C. Notari Research Grant in Environmental Studies to carry out their first doctoral research project. The project will experimentally examine how threat and efficacy messaging about climate change affects distress and pro environmental behavioral intentions. 
2021
  • Congratulations to HPCS alum Katie Darabos, who has accepted a position in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy in the School of Public Health at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  
  • Congratulations Jorge Cienfuegos Szalay, who has been awarded an NIH F31 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for his dissertation research: The role of intersectional stigma and social anxiety in substance use and HIV risk for young Black and Latino sexual minority men: A daily diary study.
  • Congratulations Sugandha Gupta, who has been awarded an F31 grant from the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD/NIH), aka the Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship, for her dissertation, Social and cultural processes that impact physical activity among South Asian Americans managing hypertension: A mixed methods study.
  • 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 HPCS doctoral student Joseph Carter, who is featured in the news! Check out the article exploring how incarceration impacts HIV risk among black sexual minority men. 
  • Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Berke, who has received a four-year SCORE award from the National Institutes of Health (SC3-GM136580), which will examine trajectories and markers of risk and resilience among transgender trauma survivors using a multimethod longitudinal approach to inform PTSD prevention and intervention efforts.
  • Congratulations to doctoral student Laurel Weaver, who has been awarded a two-year NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (F31-MH124509) entitled, "Examining a biopsychosocial model of neurocognitive health for HIV-positive sexual minority men"
2020 
  • Congratulations to Irina Mindlis, who received the 2020 Emerging Student Leader Award from the Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association!
  • New first-authored publication by 3rd year HPCS student Irina Mindlis from her first doc exam on “Racial/ethnic concordance between patients and researchers as a predictor of study attrition” in Social Science & Medicine, along with mentor Dr. Tracey Revenson!
  • New first-authored publication by 3rd year HPCS student Trey Delucci from his first doc exam on "Arrangements versus Agreements: Evaluating Two Approaches to Measuring Male Couples’ Rules and Understandings Around Sex with Outside Sex Partners" in Archives of Sexual Behavior, along with mentor Dr. Tyrel Starks and HPCS faculty member Dr. Cheryl Carmichael!
  • Congratulations to HPCS student Caroline Zimmerman, who has been awarded Fulbright Fellowship for research on psychosocial adaptation to visible skin diseases.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Carmichael, who has received a 5-year NSF career award titled, Modeling Responsive Relationship Behavior: Channels of Communication, Social Benefits, and Mechanisms of Action
  • Dr. Jonathon Rendina and his colleagues have been awarded a new grant from the National Institutes on Health to test a multilevel model of structural, social, and psychological factors associated with HIV viral suppression in the two years following a new diagnosis among sexual minority men (R01-AI150502; MPI: Rendina & Talan).
  • Congratulations to Dr. Tracey Revenson, who has won the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s (SBM’s) 2020 Distinguished Mentor Award!
  • Congratulations to Stephen Bosco and Dr. Tyrel Starks and their colleagues, who recently had their research featured!
2019
  • NIH issued a press release on research conducted by Dr. Jon Rendina and Jorge Cienfgueos Szalay and their colleagues! See news coverage of this study as well on sites including Reuters and Queerty, as well as CUNY's coverage of the work.
  • Dr. Tracey Revenson has just published a book, Becoming a Health Psychologist (Taylor & Francis, 2019) that takes readers from making a decision to enter the field of health psychology, apply to graduate school, and how to make the most of their doctoral, internship, and post-doc years as they look ahead to the next phase of their career.  It contains tips from current students as well as early career professionals and senior scholars in the field on how to choose and apply for graduate programs. Look out for tips from HPCS students Aliza Panjwani, Ray Moody, and Sugandha Gupta!
  • Aliza Panjwani and Dr. Tracey Revenson in the news! 
  • Dr. Tracey Revenson has been elected to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, a prestigious honor bestowed upon distinguished scientists with demonstrated excellence both nationally and internationally in behavioral medicine
  • Congratulations to Dr. Tracey Revenson, who has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Behavioral Medicine (read more here)
  • Dr. Regina Miranda and Dr. Tracy Dennis have been awarded a large research grant to conduct a longitudinal study of proximal risk factors for adolescent suicide ideation (RF1-MH120846, MPI: Miranda & Dennis).
  • Dr. Jonathon Rendina has been awarded a new research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study daily experiences of intersectional stigma among young sexual minority men (R21-MH121311, PI: Rendina).
  • Dr. Tracey Revenson won the Society of Health Psychology ‘s 2019 Excellence in Health Psychology Mentoring award. 
  • Amanda Marin-Chollom, PhD (2017), has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Central Connecticut State College starting Fall 2019.  She will be teaching Health Psychology and Latino Psychology among other courses. Brava, Amanda!
Past Accomplishments and Awards
  • HPCS student Beverlin del Rosario joined 40 young science leaders as they kicked off their year as fellows of the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development by attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting. The Yale Ciencia Academy (YCA) for Career Development provides graduate students with opportunities for mentoring, networking, and skills development, and for making contributions to their communities through science outreach. Started in 2016 and funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), YCA has trained 114 young scientists from more than 50 institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico to date.
  • 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 Laurel Weaver! Laurel was awarded a two-year diversity supplement from the National Institute on Mental Health to conduct research on the role of emotion recognition as a facet of emotion regulation within her mentor, Dr. Rendina's, larger research study of HIV-positive sexual minority men (R01-MH-114735-02A2)
  • 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.
  • Welcome to our new incoming class! We welcome Jorge, Caroline, Beverlin, Jonathan,  Laurel, Trey, and Irina to the HPCS  community!!
  • Dr. Jon Rendina 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. 
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