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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• HPCS has been granted APA accreditation!!! Per APA rules, the accreditation will be on contingency until the program has 3 years of program outcome data.
  
• Dr. Tracey Revenson won the Society of Health Psychology ‘s 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!
  
• 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 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!!
• 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. 
• 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.