Article archive / February 1, 2010
Originally published: . Volume 1, No. 6. Source pages: 1, 4.
Dr. Laurie O’Brien, Assistant Professor at Tulane was awarded a $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on gender discrimination and stereotyping in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. Dr. O’Brien’s research interests are prejudice and stigma and she teaches Social Stigma as one of her classes at Tulane. Dr. O’Brien won the 2005 Morton Deutsch Award of the International Society of Justice Research and has published extensively on the topic of stereotype, belief systems, discrimination and the impact of these variables on self-esteem.
Dr. Stacy Overstreet, Director of the School Psychology Training Program received a $600,000 training grant last year from the Department of Education. This grant supported students in the Tulane School Psychology doctoral program dealing with stress and trauma. Dr. Overstreet’s research interests include children at risk for maladjustment due to chronic stressors, and she teaches in these areas of interest.
Also in 2009, Dr. Paul Colombo received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on memory. He is an associate professor in the psychology department and studies the neuronal mechanisms involved in memory, in his laboratory at Tulane.
(Source: Tulane University, Psychology Department website.)
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