Originally published: . Volume 10, No. 5. Source pages: 10.
Tulane News reported that the Society for Research in Child Development has named Dr. Sarah Gray, assistant professor of psychology at Tulane University, as a recipient of its prestigious Early Career Award.
Dr. Gray and the other four winners were honored for distinguishing “themselves as researchers and scholars, as evidenced through research, publications and scholarly activities," noted the Society, as reported by Barri Bronston of Tulane News.
Dr. Gray is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane with a focus in children's mental health and physiological consequences of exposure to early life stress and trauma, and especially in underserved children and their caregivers.
Bronton's report said that the Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Award Committee acknowledged Gray for her use of diverse methodologies to understand violence exposure in child development. The Society also noted the value of her approach in studying sensitive parenting and physiological self-regulation in vulnerable mothers and children. And also they honored her for "advancing rigorous research that improves the lives of young children and parents who have been exposed to trauma."
"I was deeply honored to be recognized for the quality of the work I have been doing with my students and collaborators here in New Orleans,” Gray said in the report.
“Tulane's interdisciplinary strength around the study of violence and early adversity, as well as the support of my senior colleagues in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the School of Medicine, have been instrumental in allowing me to do more ambitious science."
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