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