Developmental Psychopathology Lab

Awards

Updated 2024-05-10

2024

Prabhvir Lakhan

• received the IU Provost's Award for undergraduate research and creative activity

• received the Clara Javan Goodbody Award, recognizing his impactful leadership and involvement as an undergraduate at IU

2023

Sydney Adams

• received a first place Spotlight Poster Award in the Drug Utilization section at the International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management

Emma Cleary

• received a first place Spotlight Poster Award in the Medications in Pregnancy & Lactation section at the International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management

Brian D'Onofrio

• was named a member of the Executive Leadership Team for the Indiana University 2030 Strategic Plan

Logan Gillenwater

• received the Sharon Stephens Brehm Excellence in Research Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate psychology research

Prabhvir Lakhan

• received the Hutton Honors College Travel Grant and the IU Engaged Learning Travel Scholarship, which support undergraduate researchers in presenting at conferences

• received the Hutton Honors Research Grant, which supports undergraduate research proposals and helps students to build research skills and pursue serious academic inquiry

2022

Sydney Adams

• received the IU Provost's Award and Executive Dean's Award for undergraduate research and creative activity in the social and applied sciences category

• received the Cheryl Burnham Buhler Award, which is annually awarded to one outstanding senior psychology major at Indiana University

• received the Robert Weiskopf Award for undergraduate teaching from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University

Marianne Chirica

• received a T32 Clinical Research Training Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to explore the effects of benzodiazepines on suicidal behavior

Emma Cleary

• received a T32 Predoctoral Trainee Fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for integrative predoctoral training in drug abuse research at Indiana University

Brian D'Onofrio

• received the IU Provost's Mentor Award for mentorship of undergraduate research in the social and applied sciences category

Prabhvir Lakhan

• was voted the IUJUR Research Slam Audience Choice Winner

Ayesha Sujan

• was awarded the Health Equity Research Supplement grant from the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California ($35,471)

Alynna Summit

• received a T32 Training Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for integrative predoctoral training in drug abuse research at Indiana University

2021

Lauren O'Reilly

• received the 2021 Provost's Travel Award for Women in Science

Ayesha Sujan

• accepted a NICHD and NIDA funded post-doctoral fellowship position in the Division of Research at Kaiser Permanente, Northern California

2020

Emma Cleary

• received a T32 Predoctoral Trainee Fellowship in the Training Program in Integrative Developmental Process

Brian D'Onofrio

• was named Sharon Stephens Brehm Endowed Professor

• was awarded an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention grant. Risks and Benefits of ADHD Medication for Suicidal Behavior: A National Study of At-Risk Youth (Primary Investigator, 2 years, $125,000)

Lauren O'Reilly

• was named Outstanding P211 Instructor Award (Spring, 2020)

Ayesha Sujan

• received the J.R. Kantor Graduate Award for distinction in research, Indiana University

Kelsey Wiggs

• received National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award (2 years of funding for graduate stipend and tuition, January 2020 - present)

• received American Professional Society for ADHD and Related Disorders Annual Conference Best Poster Award (Spring 2020)

2019

Brian D'Onofrio

• was awarded National Institute on Drug Abuse grant (R01DA048042). Maternal use of prescribed opioid analgesics and risk of adverse offspring outcomes (Co-Primary Investigator with Oberg, R01, 3 years, $1,220,000)

• was awarded a Swedish Research Council (2018-02679) grant. Prescribed Opioid Analgesic Use during Pregnancy and Risk for Adverse Birth Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Problems in Offspring (Primary Investigator, Program Grant, 3 years, $400,000)

Lauren O'Reilly

• was awarded an National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH121039) grant. Predicting Short-Term Risk for Suicidal Behavior after Contact with Outpatient Specialists: A Machine Learning Approach (Sponsor: D'Onofrio, PI: O'Reilly, 3 years of graduate stipend, tuition, and research expenses).

• received Provost's Travel Award for Women in Science.

• received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award.

• Recieved an Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Predoctoral Award (declined).

Kelsey Wiggs

• received a Travel Award, American Professional Society for ADHD and Related Disorders Annual Conference

2018

Brian D'Onofrio

• an awarded an Indiana University Grand Challenge grant: Responding to the Addictions Crisis Computer Adaptive Testing: Dissemination and Implementation (Primary Investigator, 2 years, $300,000)

Lauren O'Reilly

• received a Commendation for Doctoral Qualifying Examinations.

Patrick Quinn

• was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington.

• was awarded an NIH/NIDA grant #R00DA040727 (2018-2021) funding his research project "Pharmacoepidemiologic Studies of Prescription Opioid Analgesic Risks."

2017

Quetzal Class

• received the UIC OBGYN Research Mentoring Award, which recognizes excellence and commitment to supporting resident research efforts by mentoring and encouraging resident scholarship.

Lauren O'Reilly

• received the Best Poster Presentation at the IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research, Henderson, NV.

Kelsey Wiggs and Lauren O'Reilly

• received a Predoctoral Trainee Fellowship in Training in Clinical Translational Science: Maximizing the Public Health Impact.

2016

Quetzal Class

• was named an Assistant Professor in OBGYN at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Brian D'Onofrio

• was named a Visiting Professor in the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Patrick Quinn

• received an NIH/NIDA Pathway to Independence Award(#K99DA040727) to study harms associated with prescription opioid pain medications.

Ayesha Sujan

• received a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded T32 Clinical Research training grant to explore the consequences of in-utero exposure to prescription medication.

Kelsey Wiggs

• received a Predoctoral Trainee Fellowship in the Training Program in Integrative Developmental Process.

2015

Brian D'Onofrio

• received the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) Early Career Impact Award.

Patrick Quinn

• received an Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Postdoctoral Trainee position to study the behavioral harms of prescription opioid analgesics using pharmacoepidemiologic methods (NIH/NCATS Grant TL1R001107 [PI: A. Shekhar]).

Ayesha Sujan

• received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship to study the causal effects of fetal growth and inter-pregnancy interval on child development.

2014

Quetzal Class

• was accepted to the Indiana University School of Medicine Predoctoral Clinical Internship Program.

Brian D'Onofrio

• was promoted to Full Professor and named Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Sciences Program.

Lauren O'Reilly

• received the Cheryl Burnham Buhler Award from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences for excellence in honors thesis research. This annual prize is awarded to the outstanding senior psychology major, in memory of Cheryl Burnham Buhler. Cheryl Buhler received a BA in Psychology with honors from the department in June 1967 and was admitted to the Graduate School in the fall of 1967 in pursuit of a PhD. She died in October of that year.

• received the Weiskopf Award for Outstanding UTA from the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Indiana University, which recognizes outstanding performance as an undergraduate teaching assistant. The award is named in the memory of a beloved instructor, Dr. Robert Weiskopf.

• received the Outstanding Honors Thesis Award from the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Indiana University. This award distinguishes an undergraduate who displays superior performance in psychological research and an impressive honors thesis.

Erikka Vaughan

• received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research.

• was named the Texas Tech STATS camp 2014 Haiku winner! Here's Erikka's haiku:

  Standard is this love
  One only seen in my dreams
  A phantom construct

• was nominated by the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County for her work co-coordinating Free Homework Help at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Erikka was also nominated in the Be More Engaged category at the sixth annual Be More Awards Ceremony.

2013

Quetzal Class

• was awarded Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship that recognizes the quality of past graduate work and expresses the confidence of the College and department in Quetzal's promise as a developing scholar.

• received a J.R. Kantor Graduate Award from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in memory of J.R. Kantor, a well-known and influential member of the Department of Psychology at IU. He was known for his development of interbehaviorism, a view that stressed that observations and descriptions of psychological events always occurred in specific contexts.

Kelly Donahue

• began a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for HPV Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, under the supervision of Gregory Zimet, PhD, and J. Dennis Fortenberry, MD, MS, in the Department of Pediatrics.

• received a Graduate Student Achievement Award from the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (APA Division 53).

Brian D'Onofrio

• received the Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of transformative early career contributions to psychological science.

Brittany McCoy

• was awarded an Excellence in Research Award by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences for outstanding performance in psychological research. Brittany applied to and was accepted into the Indiana University School of Medicine where she will begin her training in the Fall.

2012

Kelly Donahue

• successfully defended her dissertation, titled "Quasi-Experimental Approaches to Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Adolescent Sexual Behavior" and began her pre-doctoral internship (child track) at the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry/Institute for Juvenile Research.

• was awarded the 2012 Sandra R. Leiblum by the Student Research Award by the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). This award recognizes the scholarly work of students who are developing a career in the field of sexual disorders and sexual health and fosters the professional development of individuals beginning their careers in this area.

Brian D'Onofrio

• was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, an honor awarded to young investigators that are at the forefront of psychological science.

Brigid Marriott

• received a Burnett/Masters Scholarship awarded to junior men and women who are members of the Hutton Honors College, have maintained a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.7 or higher, and have also demonstrated exceptional achievement in both academic performance and leadership on the Indiana University campus.

Brittany McCoy

• received an Alternative Spring Break Grant by the Hutton Honors College to Hutton Honors College students who do volunteer service work over spring break.

• received an Hutton International Experiences Program Grant by the Hutton Honors College to undergraduates travel overseas for study abroad trips, volunteer work, research, internships, or other international experiences.

2011

Brian D'Onofrio

• received an Honorable Mention for the Gerald R. Klerman Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) for his basic research as a young investigator into the intergenerational transmission of depression.

• received the J.L. Fuller & J.P. Scott Memorial Award, an early career scientific award from the Behavior Genetics Association. The award was presented at the 2011 conference in Newport, RI.

• was awarded the Early Career Research Contributions Award by the Society for Research in Child Development. The award was presented at the 2011 conference in Montreal, Canada.

• was promoted to Associate Professor

2010

Ashley Carrasco

• received the 2010 Outstanding Senior Award from the IUB Department of Criminal Justice. This award recognizes a student who has achieved academic excellence, made significant contributions to the community, and shows promise for continued excellence and contributions.

• was accepted into the Master's of Science in Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. She will begin the program this Fall.

Quetzal Class

• was awarded the Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant from the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA) and the University Graduate School, a highly competitive award that accepts applicants from all Indiana University campuses and departments. Receiving the Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant allows Quetzal to travel to Stockholm, Sweden for a six-week period in which she can conduct preliminary dissertation activities including establishing institutional affiliations, meeting with local scholars and researchers at the Karolinska Institute, and gaining an in-depth experience with the Swedish data she will be using to conduct her dissertation research.

Kelly Donahue

• received an individual Pre-Doctoral NRSA Fellowship Award through NIDA (F31 DA029376-01). Kelly's research project, "Predictors and Consequences of Risky Sexual Behavior," will utilize a variety of quasi-experimental designs to investigate the nature of the association between psychological health, substance use, and sexual risk behavior. The research project will be supervised by Dr. Brian D'Onofrio and will incorporate data from the Study of Twin Adults: Genes and Environment (STAGE) in Sweden and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY) in the United States. 

• received a 2010 Travel Award from the Graduate and Professional Student Organization at IU. This award provided support for Kelly's travel to the 2010 International Workshop on Statistical Genetics and Methodology of Twin and Family Studies held in Boulder, Colorado in March. By attending this workshop, Kelly was able to learn statistical techniques in behavior genetics that will be necessary for her dissertation work.

Brian D'Onofrio

• was a primary investigator (Co-PI: Paul Lichtenstein) of an R01 grant that was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD061817), entitled Quasi-Experimental Studies of Early Risk Factors for Severe Psychopathology. The grant, which is 4 years ($1,450,000), supports secondary data analysis of a prospective, national cohort study in Sweden.

• was a co-investigator (PI: Ben Lahey) of an R01 grant that was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD061384), entitled Early Causal Risk Factors for Delinquency: Quasi Experimental Tests. The grant, which is 4 years ($1,040,000), supports secondary data analysis of a longitudinal study of women in the United States and their children.

• was awarded a 2010 Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award for his research, teaching, and service. Each of the five faculty members honored received $14,500 from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. This annual award enables faculty to enhance their research and recognizes junior faculty members who have devoted considerable time to IU's teaching, research, and service missions.

Lauren Fetsko

• was accepted into the London-CIC Semester Internship Program through Arcadia University's College of Global Studies. She will be working 3 days per week in London's healthcare industry and will complete an independent academic research project, in addition to three other courses.

Gabbi Rodríguez

• was accepted into the Clinical Science Program in Child and Adolescent Psychology at Florida International University in Miami, FL. She will begin the program this Fall and will be working with Dr. Daniel Bagner.

• was selected as an alternate winner of the Margaret Russell Edmondson Undergraduate Research Award in Genetics, which the IUB Chapter of Sigma Xi presents annually. The award carries an honorarium and associate membership in Sigma Xi. The award is sponsored by Professor Frank Edmondson, a longtime faculty member in Astronomy, in memory of his wife.

• received the Excellence in Research Award presented annually to five students for excellence in psychological research at the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences J.R. Kantor Undergraduate Honors Banquet.

Amber Singh

• will be the Program Manager for the Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (SARRTP). Th SARRTP is an independent living environment facilitating provision of care for patients in the early phase of recovery from alcohol and/or drug dependence and early phase of stabilization of a comorbid psychiatric condition. It is a 25 bed unit staffed by a multidisciplinary team of treatment professions offering psychosocial treatment (typically for 3-4 weeks).

Nicole Wittman

• was accepted into the Master's of Science in Occupational Therapy Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She will begin the program this Fall and is hoping to concentrate in pediatrics.

2009

Ashley Carrasco

• received the McNair Scholars Program Best Overall Mock Presentation Award this summer. She also presented her research project, The Effects of Parental Bereavement and Academic Achievement: Examining Socioeconomic Status as a Moderating Variable, at the Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference and the National McNair Research Conference in November 2009.

Quetzal Class

• received a National Institute of Health funded Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Career Development Award  (5TL1RR025759-02). Her project, A population-based, quasi-experimental investigation on the impact of prenatal maternal stress on fetal, infant, and adult health and psychopathology, spans T1 and T2 translational research by expanding from animal models to basic, human epidemiological knowledge by using an unparalleled, population-based, Swedish dataset. In this area of science, a project of this size and scientific rigor is unprecedented in its ability to examine the role of timing and degree of stress experienced to predict normative and non-normative developmental outcomes in humans.