PAMT funded for next 5 years
The Prevention and Methodology Training T32 program has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for another 5 years. PAMT has trained over 120 early-career researchers in substance use prevention and advance quantitative methods since 2007. In the next funding cycle, Training Directors Stephanie Lanza, Rina Eiden, and Eric Claus will steer the program to build an even more robust predoctoral program, with a large cohort of 11 graduate fellows per year. In addition to NIH funding through grant T32 DA017629, PAMT receives robust institutional support from Penn State.
Ashley Linden-Carmichael receives NIDA R01
Congratulations to Ashley Linden-Carmichael on receiving a NIDA R01, Simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use in young adults: A micro-randomized trial to reduce substance use and related harms. Ashley directs the CASCADE lab at the University of Oregon. This project will be a collaborative effort with AIM Lab members at Penn State.
New positions for AIM Lab PAMT fellows!
Dr. Danny Wang completed his PhD and started a NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sara Miller started a postdoctoral position in the CASCADE lab at the University of Oregon working with Dr. Ashley Linden-Carmichael. Congratulations to you both!
Lanza elected President of SAA
Congratulations to Stephanie Lanza, AIM Lab director, on being elected President of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA). Ambulatory Assessment refers to the use of field methods to assess the ongoing behavior, physiology, experience and environmental aspects of people in naturalistic or unconstrained settings, using ecologically valid tools to understand biopsychosocial processes as they unfold naturally in time and in context.
Best Poster Award
To view the poster Click Here ____________________ Miglena Ivanova, a third-year doctoral student in developmental psychology and a Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) predoctoral fellow, won the Best Poster Award for her work "Profiles of Co-occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and Adolescent Substance Use" which she presented at the 2023 Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction Annual Conference. In this project, Miglena and her colleagues examined heterogeneous subgroups of co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems, and whether different subgroups experience different rates of substance use across early and late adolescence. Click here to hear a narrative of the present project and what they found! *Pictures of the award and the poster at the CSUA Conference
Award Recipients
Congratulations to current lab members Danny Wang who was accepted as a Pre-Doctoral Fellow for the NIDA T32 Prevention and Methodology program and Sam Stull who received a NIDA F31 National Research Service Award for "The Role of Nondrug Reward in Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder: Intrapersonal and Socio-spatial Contexts in Daily Life".
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Danny Rahal (will be Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz Fall 2023) and Natalia Van Doren (will be post-doctoral scholar at a NIDA-funded T32 at UC San Francisco in Fall 2023).
How husbands perceive their wives’ weight may affect later marriage satisfaction
AIM Lab trainee, Anna Hochgraf's research was recently featured in Penn State News.
Marijuana may boost risky effects of alcohol
Penn State News recently featured Dr. Ashley Linden-Carmichael's research on the harms of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use.
Hannah Allen accepts faculty position at the University of Mississippi!
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Allen, AIM lab and PAMT post-doc, for accepting an Assistant Professor position at the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss")!
Are You Drinking Too Much?
Dr. Ashley Linden-Carmichael was quoted in Men's Health about her work published in Alcohol & Alcoholism that examined latent classes of individuals based on alcohol use disorder symptoms and how these classes vary across ages 18 to 65.