Nancy Raitano Lee, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, is co-investigator on a $234,750 NIH R21 grant for “Improving Child-Treatment Fit in Autism Early Intervention.”

Jennifer Yusin, PhD, associate professor of English, published the book “The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition,” Fordham University Press.

Meghan Butryn, PhD, associate professor of psychology and director of research at the WELL Center, received a $424,725 NIH R21 grant for “Improving Weight Loss Maintenance by Using Digital Data Sharing to Provide Responsive Support and Accountability.” Psychology faculty members Evan Forman, PhD, and Zoe Zhang, PhD, are co-investigators on the project.

Amy Slaton, PhD, professor of history, received the 2017 Sterling Olmsted Award from the American Society for Engineering Education’s Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division. The award honors her distinguished contributions to the development and teaching of liberal arts in engineering education.

Arthur Nezu, PhD, DHL, ABPP, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, was awarded the “Distinguished Service to the Profession Award” from the American Board of Professional Psychology. The award honors a board-certified specialist whose career represents outstanding contributions to psychology as a science and as a profession.

Naomi Goldstein, PhD, professor of psychology, received two grants from the National Institute of Justice/U.S. Department of Justice: “PBIS in Challenging Contexts: Evaluating a Replicable Implementation Approach in Philadelphia” for $3M; and “Evaluating Impacts of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: An Alternative-to-Arrest Policing Strategy” for $1.2M. She also received a $750,000 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/U.S. Department of Justice for “Long-Term Outcomes and Sustained Impact of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program.”

Lauren Lowe, BA English ’17, was awarded an ArtistYear fellowship to work as a writer-in-residence at Paul Robeson High School in West Philadelphia.