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NRT Trainee Keri Gladhill and colleagues made the cover of TICS (cover art by Katrina Nguyen)! Read more about how movements shape the perception of time here.

NRT Trainee Jill Nelson and colleagues used network analysis to highlight the link between PTSD and eating disorder symptoms. Read the article here. 

The following products have come out of the CASBBI NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. NRT graduate student trainees are shown in bold.

Journal Articles

De Kock, R., Gladhill, K.A., Ali, M.N., Joiner, W.M. & Wiener, M. (2021). How Movements Shape the Perception of Time. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.002

Nelson, J. D., Cuellar, A. E., Cheskin, L. J., & Fischer, S. (2021). Eating Disorders and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Network Analysis of the Comorbidity. Behavior Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2021.09.006

Gonçalves, S.F., Turpyn, C.C., Niehaus, C.E., Mauro K.L., Hinagpis, C.L., Thompson, J.C., & Chaplin, T.M. (2021). Neural activation to loss and reward among alcohol naïve adolescents who later initiate alcohol use. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 50, 100978. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620983453

Matto, H.C., Seshaiyer, P., Carmack, S., Peixoto, N.P., & Scherbel, M. (2021). When triggers become tigers: taming the autonomic nervous system via sensory support system modulation. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 21(4), 382-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1533256X.2021.1973833

Conference Papers and Presentations

Sikdar, S. (2021, September). Community-engaged Interdisciplinary Methods in Embedding Experiential or Community-Engaged Learning Projects into Your Courses Showcase. 13th Annual George Mason University Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference. Virtual. Panel presentation. https://doi.org/10.13021/itlcp.2021.2951

Sikdar, S. (2021, September). NSF National Research Traineeship Program at Mason’s Center for Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body Interactions in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Showcase. 13th Annual George Mason University Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference. Virtual. Panel presentation.  https://doi.org/10.13021/itlcp.2021.2973

Scarton, D.V., Leung, R., Mbuya, J.K., Matto, H., Rangwala, H., Thompson, J., Peixoto, N., Seshaiyer, P., Carmack, S., and Sikdar S. (2021, November). Building transdisciplinary training capacities to create convergent research and develop translation innovations aimed at disability-related challenges. Neuroscience 2021: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Virtual. Poster presentation.

Acharya, A., Krishnan, J., Arias, D., & Rangwala, H. (2020, October). Homicidal event forecasting and interpretable analysis using hierarchal attention model. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2020).Virtual. Paper presentation.

Bates, R. (2021, January). Engaging in virtual team science. 2021 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Annual Meeting: Shaping 21st Century STEM Graduate Education. Virtual. Slide presentation.

Carmack, S. (2021, June). A solutions-oriented discussion of transdisciplinary multi-team research centers: Challenges in academic setting. 12th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference. Virtual. Collaborative panel presentation.

Izquierdo, A.M., & Fischer, S. (2020, November). Nonsuicidal self-injury and suicide are unique predictors of eating disorder pathology and behaviors over and above negative urgency. 54th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Virtual. Poster presentation.

López Jr., R., Gonçalves, S. F., Chaplin, T. M., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2020, November). Associations between self-identified sexual orientation and trajectories of emotion dysregulation and depressive symptoms from early to middle adolescence. In R. López Jr., & C. Esposito-Smythers (Chairs), An Examination of the Psychological Mediation Framework and its Relation to Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among LGBTQ Individuals From Early Adolescence to Adulthood. 54th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Virtual. Symposium presentation.

López, R., Gonçalves, S. F., & Chaplin, T. M. (2020, November). Differences in physiological and psychological indices of emotion regulation between sexual minority and heterosexual youth. 54th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Convention. Virtual. Poster presentation.

Mahmud, J., Faisal, F., Arnob, R.I., Anastasopoulos, A., & Moran, K. (2021, August). Code to comment translation: A study on model effectiveness and errors. 2021 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Programming (NLP4Prog) at the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021). Virtual. Poster presentation.

Nelson, J. & Fischer. S. (2020, November). PTSD and eating disorder symptoms in first year undergraduates: A network Approach. 54th Annual Meeting Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Virtual. Poster presentation.

Patwardhan, S., Engdahl, S., Mukherjee, B., Bashatah, A., Dhawan, A., Abreu, R., & Sikdar, S. (2021). Volitional control of target position using sonomyography. 2020 Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Conference. Virtual. Paper presentation.  

Sikdar, S. (2021, January). Community-engaged STEM graduate training in disability-related research. 2021 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Annual Meeting: Shaping 21st Century STEM Graduate Education. Virtual. Poster Presentation.

Program Materials

2021-2022 Cohort

  • 2021 Summer Boot Camp Schedule
  • 2021 Summer Data Challenge
  • PROV 801: Community-engaged Interdisciplinary Design Fall 2021 Syllabus
  • PROV 802: Community-engaged Interdisciplinary Design Spring 2022 Syllabus
  • CASBBI Seminar/Social Hour Schedule Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
  • 2022 NRT Retreat Program (Coming Soon!)

2020-2021 Cohort

  • 2020 Summer Boot Camp Schedule
  • 2020 Summer Data Challenge
  • PROV 801: Community-engaged Interdisciplinary Design Fall 2020 Syllabus
  • PROV 802: Community-engaged Interdisciplinary Design Spring 2021 Syllabus
  • 2021 NRT Retreat Program

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