2024 Irene E. Harms Graduate Scholarship Award Recipient Announced

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Irene E. Harms Graduate Scholarship Award recipient: Briah Glover, a Developmental Psychology graduate student.

Briah is a dedicated student whose research program is rooted in community engagement and focused on understanding and elevating the experiences of minoritized youth and young adults. Her mentor is Dr. Dawn Witherspoon. Briah received her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in Psychology from Howard University. As a graduate student, she has been very involved with the Parents And Children Together (PACT) initiative and has been a valuable member of the Context and Development Lab. Her graduate training has reinforced the importance of researcher-community relationships and has provided important insight into fostering and maintaining these relationships. Her dissertation will focus on the socialization of emotion regulation strategies in minoritized families. By providing more opportunities for Briah to advance as a researcher, the Irene E. Harms Award will facilitate Briah towards a career in community-engaged research, consulting, and translational science.

The Irene E. Harms Award recognizes the outstanding academic potential of students who strive for academic excellence in one or more of three areas of child psychology: translational science, community-engaged research, and outreach to communities. Translational science includes research that bridges basic science and real-world applications and includes policy research. Child Clinical and Developmental graduate students in the Department of Psychology can apply for the award, which provides $4000 to be used for a variety of research-related activities and costs for translational and/or community-engaged research, and/or for community outreach.

Please join us in congratulating Briah!