CPS Awarded President’s Faculty Research/Development Grants

The Center for Psychological Studies was awarded two President’s Faculty Research and Development Grants for FY2010. CPS assistant professor Christian DeLucia, Ph.D., was the principal investigator on a project entitled, “Promoting Self-Change in Alcohol and Social Anxiety” that will investigate the change mechanisms in people being treated for social anxiety and alcohol use. CPS doctoral students Kimberly Wisotzke and Kristina Booth are co-principal investigators on this grant.

CPS assistant professors Craig Marker, Ph.D., and Shannon Ray, Ph.D., are co-principal investigators on the President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant entitled, “Investigation of the Development and Maintenance of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).” This project will seek to illuminate certain contributing mediators and moderators that could be targeted in prevention and early treatment intervention programs of OCD. Six doctoral students will collaborate with the professors on the grant. CPS doctoral student Angela Yehl collaborated on both a Quality of Life (QOL) Applied Research Grant (Mailman Segal Institute and Fischler School of Education and Human Services) and a President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (Fischler School of Education and Human Services).