February 7, 2024

Ashlynn Bell, a graduate student in the health psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, successfully passed her preliminary exams, becoming a doctoral candidate. 

January 11, 2024

Alexandra Wynn, a graduate student in the health psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, receives the 2023-2024 Dissertation Assistantship Award from the VCU Graduate School for her dissertation research titled "Investigating Black Emerging Adult Health and Models of Care". 

January 11, 2024

Alexandra Wynn, a graduate student in the health psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, receives the 2024 Health Equity Student Interest Group Student Research Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine for her master's thesis work titled "Black Emerging Adult Preventive Care Receipt: Healthcare Distrust, Trust in Provider, and Usual Source of Care".

October 31, 2022

Ashlynn Bell, a graduate student in the health psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, started a new position at UNC School of Medicine Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases as a Research Specialist

April 5, 2023

Alexandra Wynn, a graduate student in the health psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, receives the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion first place presentation award from the Southeastern Psychological Association for her research project titled "Discrimination and Trust on Location and Intention to Seek Care". 

May 10, 2022

Alexandra Wynn, a graduate student in the health psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, has been named a recipient of the Initiatives of the Bersoff Scholarship Funds.

April 5, 2018

Calvin Hall, a graduate student in the social psychology program and graduate researcher in the PROGRESS Lab, has been awarded the Psychology Graduate Student Award for Community Multicultural Enrichment.

March 28, 2018

With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Kristina Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of health psychology and director of the PROGRESS Lab, is assessing if using social media and mobile compatible web-based tools can improve recruitment, enrollment and retention of young substance-using African American women residing in rural communities in an evidence-based HIV prevention program.

July 12, 2017

The Association of Black Psychologists has named Chelsie Dunn, health psychology doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the PROGRESS lab, the winner of its Black Ribbon Scholarship: Graduate Student Research Award.