Faculty Specialty Areas

Dr. Heidemarie Blumenthal - stress, coping, and risk behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults. Teen St.A.R. Laboratory website. Currently accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

Dr. Adriel Boals - coping with stress and trauma, autobiographical memory, PTSD, and posttraumatic growth. Boals Laboratory website. Not accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

Dr. Casey Guillot - disposition, emotion, and addiction research, with a current focus on anxiety and smoking. DEAR Laboratory website. Currently accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

Dr. Kimberly Kelly - immune and endocrine systems involved in the stress response. Kelly Laboratory website. Currently not accepting new graduate students. 

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Dr. Ryan L. Olson - Sport and Exercise Psychology, with an emphasis on implementing psychophysiological techniques to identify neural biomarkers of disease. Olson Laboratory website. Currently accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

Dr. Anthony Ryals - Cognitive and psychophysiological factors involved in intact and disrupted memory, learning, and awareness. Ryals Laboratory website. Currently accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

Dr. Danica Slavish - longitudinal associations between sleep, stress, emotion, and health. SHEL Laboratory website. Currently accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

Dr. Donald Dougherty - alcohol substance abuse. TARC Lab website. Currently accepting new students for our December 1st, 2024 application deadline. 

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