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REACH Lab Awards 2023

  •  Doctoral student Allison Tobar-Santamaria received the Norma M. Holmes Education Grant

  • Doctoral student TJ Shaw received a Graduate Research and Development Program grant from the Virginia Tech Graduate School

  • Doctoral student TJ Shaw received a Psi Chi Summer Graduate Research Grant

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Joshua Farnsworth received the 2023-24 Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Undergraduate Research Fellowship

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Samantha Kaps was awarded the 2023 Phi Kappa Phi Medallion Award from the VT College of Science

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant LeeAnne Tunstall was awarded the 2023 Undergraduate Research Excellence Award from the VT Department of Psychology

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Lauren Meier was awarded a 2023 Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship 

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Lauren Meier received 2 awards from VT’s Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference for her first-place poster: the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Award for Excellence in Adaptive Brain and Behavior Research, and the Award for Excellence in Critical Technologies

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Lauren Meier received the Undergraduate Research Excellence Award from VT's Department of Psychology

  • PI Meagan Brem received the Deborah L. Rhatigan Early Career Award for Excellence in Violence Research from the ABCT Child Maltreatment and Interpersonal Violence Special Interest Group

  • PI Meagan Brem received a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA; R21AA030858) to provide 2 years of funding for her project, "Integrating Remote Breath Alcohol Monitoring into Ecological Momentary Assessment of Alcohol-Related Intimate Partner Violence among Young Adult Drinkers." Co-Is include Drs. Warren Bickel (Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute), Dennis McCarthy (University of Missouri), and Alexandra Hanlon (Virginia Tech's Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science).

  • PI Meagan Brem received the Lay Nam Chang Dean’s Discovery Fund from the Virginia Tech College of Science to fund her project, "Sexual Minority Stress and Alcohol-Related Intimate Partner Violence among Bisexual+ Couples: A Daily Diary Feasibility Study."

REACH Lab Awards 2022

  • Doctoral student Allison Tobar-Santamaria received a Graduate Research and Development Program grant from the Virginia Tech Graduate School

  • Doctoral student Allison Tobar-Santamaria was named an Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Doctoral Scholar

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Lauren Meier was awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association’s Division 50 (Addiction Psychology) Student Poster Award

  • PI Meagan Brem received an Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE) grant from Virginia Tech to support her project, "Using Remote Alcohol monitoring to Identify Contexts of Alcohol-Related Intimate Partner Violence among Young Adult Drinkers."

  • PI Brem received the Pathways to Peace Grant from the Virginia Tech Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention to fund her project, "A Community-Based Approach to Developing a Brief Couples Intervention for Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence"

Recent Publications

1.              *Edwards, C., *Meier, L., *Westerhold, K., *Botset, K., *Shaw, T., *Mongan, L., & Brem, M. J. (In Press). Examining the role of forgiveness in the association between trait mindfulness and psychological partner aggression among dating college students. Partner Abuse. doi: 10.1891/PA.2023-0014.

2.              Brem, M. J., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Garner, A. R., Edwards, K. M., & Shorey, R. C. (2024). Alcohol use, discrimination, and psychological partner abuse among LGBQ+ college students: Results from a daily diary study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence,31(1-2), 290-311. doi: 10.1177/08862605231195818.

3.              Brem, M. J., Shorey, R. C., Ramsey, S. E., & Stuart, G. L. (2023). Randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a brief alcohol intervention as an adjunct to batterer intervention for women arrested for domestic violence. Psychosocial Intervention, 32(2), 79-88. doi: 10.5093/pi2023a4.

4.              Wolford-Clevenger, C., Mak, I., Botelho, E., Clark, K., & Brem, M. (2023). External minority stress, gender dysphoria, and capability for suicide among transgender adults: A daily diary study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(21-22), 11707-11726. doi: 10.1177/08862605231188138.

5.              Brem, M. J., Shorey, R. C., McNulty, J., Elledge, L. C., Temple, J., & Stuart, G. L. (2022). Proximal associations among college students’ alcohol use and cyber partner abuse perpetration. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36(7), 815–823. doi: 10.1037/adb0000818. 

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