Jelaina Shipman was awarded the Black History in the Making for the Department of Psychology.

February 28, 2024

Black History in the Making Awards

Jelaina Shipman

VCU psychology professor wins NIH award for research into pediatric pain management

February 20, 2024

Cecelia Valrie’s latest interdisciplinary work aims to help young patients with sickle cell disease.

Cecelia Valrie

B. Sloan Crawford was awarded Runner-up for the Society of Pediatric Psychology's Marion and Donald Routh Student Research Grant.

February 15, 2024

Sloan's project is titled "Examination of Caregiver Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice (KAP) Concerning Consumption of Omega-3 in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease."

Congratulations, Dr. Angela Pascale! 

May 13, 2023

Angela received her PhD in Health Psychology.

A photo of Dr. Pascale after her graduation with Dr. Valrie

Congratulations to our Recent Graduate, Mary Alice Montgomery!

May 13, 2023

Mary Alice received her B.S. in Psychology. 

Mary Alice at her graduation

Attending SPPAC 2023 was great! 

April 03, 2023

Our lab had a great time attending the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC)! Happy to be doing the work to study pain and home-based opioid use among youth with Sickle Cell Disease. 

iCubed scholar Cecelia Valrie spearheads pediatric sickle cell research project that was awarded a $420K NIH grant

October 19, 2022

The project aims to predict sickle cell pain episodes so that the 20 million people living with the disease can better manage–or hopefully prevent altogether–their pain episodes.

Cecelia Valrie

Jelaina Shipman was awarded the NIH/NIMHD Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31).

July 30, 2022

Jelaina's project is titled "The Role of Sleep and Community-Level Supports in the Association between Racial Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Health in Black Adolescents."

Jelaina Shipman

Congratulations, Dr. Mona Quarless!

May 14, 2022

Mona received her PhD in Health Psychology. 

A photo of Dr. Quarless after her graduation with Dr. Valrie