FYIs

Caroline Fraga, a Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics program, has published her article "Spanish prepositions and silent PLACE" in the journal Glossa.

Read the full article

Full publication citation:

Fraga, Carolina. 2020. Spanish prepositions and silent place. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1):1-31.

Emeritus Professor Ricardo Otheguy has been selected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the discipline of linguistics.  

Otheguy and other LSA Fellows of 2020 will be inducted in a ceremony at the LSA Annual Meeting on Friday, January 8, 2021.

You can read more about the new Fellows here.

Congrats to Thomas Whitfield who has been awarded an F31 Fellowship from NIMH to investigate familiarity with, intentions to begin, and barriers to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake overtime among HIV at-risk young gay and bisexual men!

Congratulations to doctoral student Laurel Weaver, who has been awarded a two-year NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (F31-MH124509) entitled, "Examining a biopsychosocial model of neurocognitive health for HIV-positive sexual minority men"

Congratulations to HPCS alum Katie Darabos, who has accepted a position in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy in the School of Public Health at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Congratulations to HPCS doctoral student Joseph Carter, who is featured in the news! Check out the article exploring how incarceration impacts HIV risk among black sexual minority men. 

Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Berke, who has received a four-year SCORE award from the National Institutes of Health (SC3-GM136580), which will examine trajectories and markers of risk and resilience among transgender trauma survivors using a multimethod longitudinal approach to inform PTSD prevention and intervention efforts.

Congratulations Jorge Cienfuegos Szalay, who has been awarded an NIH F31 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for his dissertation research: The role of intersectional stigma and social anxiety in substance use and HIV risk for young Black and Latino sexual minority men: A daily diary study.

Congratulations Sugandha Gupta, who has been awarded an F31 grant from the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD/NIH), aka the Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship, for her dissertation, Social and cultural processes that impact physical activity among South Asian Americans managing hypertension: A mixed methods study.

Thank you everyone, for attending 16 Stories of Feminist Activism featuring left to right, Marie Lily Cerat, Moderator Alexandra Johnson, Luigi W. Morris, Hasnaa Mokhtar, Juliana Santos Wahlgren, Amanda Stojanov, Kelli Thompson, Ivy Barrett Fox Bryan, Athanasia Francis, Holly Walters, Beizar Aradini, Andi Sauer, Neyshka Diaz, and Bahriye Agu. A recording of the celebration is available on our Facebook or Twitter. For more information on the event please visit the 16 Stories of Feminist Activism blog.