Lab Achievements | Relationship Aggression and Addictive Disorders (RAAD) Lab

Graduate students in the RAAD lab also often receive competitive fellowships and other awards not listed.

2025

Alyssa Medenblik received the Outstanding Clinical Psychology Graduate Student Research Award ($1000.00)
Jackie Sullivan successfully defended her dissertation titled Testing the Temperature: Comparing the Neural Dynamics of “Hot” and “Cold” Dimensional Attention in a Sample of Typically Developing Children and Children At-Risk for Anxiety Disorder Development
Alyssa Medenblik successfully defended her dissertation titled Associations of Nicotine Vaping, Comorbid Substance Use, and Perceived Harm of Use Among College Aged Young Adults

Chrissy Jensen successfully defended her master’s thesis titled Alcohol Use as a Moderator of the Association between Impulsivity and Suicidal Ideation among College Students
Stella Son received a Graduate Student Research Award ($4995.00) for her project titled Daily Microaggressions and Alcohol Use in Sexual Minority Students: The Examination of Coping Mechanisms
Evan Basting received a National Research Service Award (NRSA) F31 fellowship through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which will help fund his dissertation project titled Examining Proximal Associations between Minority Stress, PTSD Symptoms, and Alcohol Use among Bi+ College Students with Trauma Histories
Jackie Sullivan received the Deborah Rhatigan Award in Women’s Health ($500.00) for her project titled Investigating the Intergenerational Transmission of Pediatric Anxiety among Mothers and Children using Neurocognitive, Attentional, and Behavioral Outcomes
Evan Basting received a Spring Celebration Poster Award ($75.00) for his poster presentation titled Patterns of Adverse Childhood Experiences and their Associations with PTSD Symptoms and Compulsive Behaviors among Patients in Residential Treatment for Substance Use Disorders at the Psychology Department’s annual Spring Celebration

Gloria Romero successfully defended her dissertation titled Type and Timing of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization among College Students
Alyssa Medenblik successfully defended her master’s thesis titled The Role of Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression in Predicting Dropout from Residential Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Alisa Garner successfully defended her dissertation titled Extending a Risk-Taking Model of Alcohol-Facilitated Consensual and Sexually Coercive Hookup Behaviors among College Men

Chrissy Jensen received a Student/Faculty Research Award ($4950.00) for her project titled Alcohol Use and Suicidal Ideation Among College Students
Evan Basting received the Deborah Rhatigan Award in Women’s Health ($500.00) for his project titled An Exploratory Study on the Intersections of Trauma, Health Risk Behavior, and Minority Stress among LGBTQ+ Women and People Assigned Female at Birth
Jackie Sullivan received the Provost’s Extraordinary Graduate Student Teaching Award
Evan Basting received a Student/Faculty Research Award ($4950.00) for his project titled Family Discrimination among LGBQ Individuals: A Trauma, Alcohol Use, and Dating Violence Prospective Daily Diary Study

Alyssa Medenblik received the Deborah Rhatigan Award in Women’s Health ($1000.00) for her project titled Qualitative Analysis of Vape Use Characteristics Among College Women
Jackie Sullivan received a Student/Faculty Research Award ($5000.00) for her project titled Undergraduate Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic