LRDC News and Awards

Lindsay Clare Matsumura and Scott Fraundorf are part of a team that was awarded a Momentum Teaming grant for “Artificial Intelligence Integrated into the Learning of Rehabilitation Science Skills.” This is a partnership of faculty in Physical Therapy (PI), SCI and LRDC.   

March 25, 2024

Scott Fraundorf is part of the Priming grant “Dialogue, Discourse and Diversity: Changing Social Judgements through Listening Effort” with Marta Ortega Llebaria (PI), LRDC Center Associate, Department of Linguistics and Melissa Marks from Pitt Greensburg.    View

March 25, 2024

Kudos to Ben Rottman who received a 2024 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award.    View

March 19, 2024

Jamie Hanson wrote a piece for the Conversation, about a collaborative project that he worked on with Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Portia Miller, and the PPEL team.    View

March 19, 2024

Ben Rottman was featured in Pittwire delving into how the best way to retain memories may depend on the content.    View

March 19, 2024

LRDC Senior Scientist Marc Coutanche, Psychology, was quoted in a Trib Live article on how aging affects the brain.    View

February 16, 2024

Congratulations to Ben Rottman, LRDC Research Scientist, and Associate Professor, Psychology, who has been selected as a 2024 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award recipient.   

February 5, 2024

Jennifer Iriti, LRDC Research Scientist and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Inclusion and Outreach Strategy participated in Lt. Governor Austin Davis' Roundtable on Mental Health in Schools. Jen was part of a panel in her capacity as elected school director in South Fayette Township.    View

January 31, 2024

Yiwen Zhang and Ben Rottman's recent study, “Causal learning with delays up to 21 hours,” was published as a brief report in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and featured on Psychonomic's website.    View

January 29, 2024

The Dietrich School’s new Equity and Community Engagement Team—which consists of LRDC Senior Scientist Natasha Tokowicz, associate dean for equity, faculty development, and community engagement, and Jim Griffin, director, equity and community engagement—was featured in January 24 Wide Angle "New Equity and Community Engagement Team Fosters Belonging in the Dietrich School"    View

January 29, 2024

Kudos to Pitt recipients PI, Amanda Godley, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies; Co-PIs, Jennifer Iriti, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Inclusion and Outreach Strategy and LRDC Senior Scientist; Adam Leibovich; Dean of Dietrich School and the College of General Studies, Sanjeev Shroff; interim Dean Executive Administrator & Interim Dean of Engineering, and Alydia Thomas; Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.    View

January 17, 2024

Jamie Hanson, LRDC Research Scientist, was interviewed for the IFL Bridges to Research December 19 issue on "How Early Childhood Trauma Changes the Brain."    View

January 8, 2024

LRDC Research Associate Omid Fotuhi was featured in a January 1, 2024, Associated Press article. Fotuhi is the Director of Learning Innovation at Western Governors University Labs and a research associate at Pitt.    View

January 8, 2023

Andy Ribner, LRDC Research Associate, was quoted in the December 18 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on children and screen time.   

January 8, 2023

LRDC Graduate students Lorraine Blatt and Nabila Jamal-Orozco, along with their colleagues were featured in the Pitt Research Report "Convergence."    View

December 4, 2023

LRDC Senior Scientist Kevin Ashley, Professor, Law presented "Using Generative AI to Model Case-based Legal Argument" at the Aula Magna XXVII, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). The hosts presented him his 2017 book, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics, translated.    View

December 4, 2023

The COVID-adversity study by Jamie Hanson was featured in several news outlets, including Yahoo, the Houston Chronicle, SF Gate.    View

December 4, 2023

The COVID-adversity study by Jamie Hanson was featured in several news outlets, including Yahoo, the Houston Chronicle, SF Gate.    View

December 4, 2023

The COVID-adversity study by Jamie Hanson was November 29, Theconversation.com article "People who experienced childhood adversity had poorer COVID-19 outcomes."    View

November 29, 2023

Jamie Hanson was featured in the November 14 Pittwire about how childhood trauma could lead to worse COVID-19 outcomes decades later.    View

November 14, 2023

Jamie Hanson was mentioned in an article by 90.5 WESA on his recent study linking childhood adversity to increased COVID-19 risks.    View

November 13, 2023

Jamie Hanson and colleagues Kristen O'Connor (Saint Vincent College), and LRDC's Dorthea Adkins and Isabella Kahhale, published "Childhood Adversity and COVID-19 Outcomes in the UK Biobank" on November 1 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The article has garnered extensive national and international publicity.   

November 11, 2023

Angela Stewart was featured in the September 28 Pittwire for a National Science Foundation Racial Equity in STEM Education award.    View

October 2, 2023

Kudos to Angela Stewart who has received the NSF Racial Equity in STEM Education award for “Black Girls as Creators: An Intersectional Learning Ecosystem Toward Gendered Racial Equity in Artificial Intelligence Education.” This research grant was awarded to Stewart and her collaborators at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Texas (UT) Arlington, as well as community partners Assemble and Manchester Youth Development Center here in Pittsburgh.   

September 25, 2023

Jennifer Iriti and Talia Stol have been awarded a new grant from the Dicks Sporting Goods Foundation for a three-year evaluation study of a public-private school transformation effort in McKeesport Area School District.   

September 18, 2023

Ben Rottman, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, and LRDC Research Scientist received a dB-SERC Course Transformation Award for “Flip It and Reverse It,” providing students in research methods a choice between learning styles.    View

August 28, 2023

LRDC Research Scientist Kevin Binning, Associate Professor, Psychology received a dB-SERC Course Transformation Award for "Scaling up an Ecological-Belonging Intervention," with Jane Caldwell, Department of Economics    View

August 28, 2023

Next Generation of Family Math Researchers Dissertation Fellowship Kudos to Shirley Duong for being selected for a Next Generation of Family Math Researchers Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for Family Math that is part of the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Dissertation Fellows will receive a $10,000 stipend and participate in the Fellowship learning community through both virtual and in-person meetings. The Center for Family Math’s Research Consortium members will provide supplemental mentorship.   

August 7, 2023

Alex Silver is a recipient of 2023 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Summer Research Grant. A&S-GSO distributes awards and grants to support graduate student research, teaching and professionalization. Recipients are selected through a review process conducted by awards committees made up of A&S graduate students.   

July 11, 2022

Kudos to Simon Wang, a psychology and economics undergraduate student in Jamie Hanson's Learning, Imaging, Family Experience lab (LIFELab), who received a Brackenridge Fellowship for his research: “Delayed Discounting as a Mediator of Childhood Stress and Depression," and was mentioned in Pittwire. Sponsored by the David C. Frederick Honors College, Brackeridge Fellowships support independently led research and creative projects. Only thirty-five undergraduate students receive support for their summer research.    View

June 20, 2023