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Awards & Recognition
 Emile Creel and Bethany Deuel received an Award of Excellence at the Public Relations Association of Mississippi state conference for work on the SSRC’s 2021 Annual Report. Read more at https://bit.ly/3KONk9s.
 Sarah Dulaney competed in the undergraduate three-minute thesis competition during the Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Symposium and was selected as Grand Champion. Dulaney and Rachel Adair are both research assistants in the Message Laboratory and participated in the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Adair presented work from the HappyHealthy social marketing campaign, and Dulaney presented her senior honors thesis, an examination of family dynamics and disagreements surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. Both are supervised by Dr. Holli Seitz, Director of the Message Laboratory. Read more at https://bit.ly/37MzOpH.
 Ania Issac – an ADI/ORED Undergraduate Research Scholar with the Gender Impacts Lab at the SSRC – has been awarded an Arts & Sciences Student First Undergraduate Excellence Opportunity (SFUEO) Award from Mississippi State University. The funds will be used by Ania to conduct field-based research in Zambia in Summer 2022 for the FishFirst! Zambia project under the direct supervision and mentorship of Drs. Kathleen Ragsdale and Mary Read-Wahidi. Ania was selected as an ADI/ORED Undergraduate Research Scholar by the Division of Access, Diversity, and Inclusion (ADI) in collaboration with the Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED).
Dr. Kathleen Ragsdale served as a Judge at the 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, which was held at Mississippi State University on April 13.
Khirsten J. Wilson was awarded the Student Travel Award from the Association for Psychological Science to attend their annual conference in Chicago, Illinois (2022, May). This award is valued at $850 and includes complimentary registration and a $200 cash award granted directly to recipients to mitigate the cost of attending.
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In the News
Dr. Colleen Sinclair authored a new story for The Conversation. Read Will Smith’s slap shows ‘honor culture’ is alive and well at https://bit.ly/3Fh9dx2.
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On the Horizon
Tockie V. Hemphill will serve as Proposal Reviewer for the American Evaluation Association’s Evaluation 2022 Conference for the American Evaluation Association Leadership and Performance (LOP) Topical Interest Group (TIG) as well as the Assessment in Higher Education TIG. Hemphill will review paper presentations, workshop presentations, panel discussions, and poster presentations. Ratings will be made for each proposal based on descriptions of how the work meets AEA standards and abstract content. The conference will be held November 7 – 12, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program
Billy Brister and Chuck Dawkins of MASEP attended the Mississippi Justice Court Judges conference in Philadelphia, MS on April 6th.
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Personnel
Read about Eniko Marcus and her work as a call center supervisor in the Wolfgang Frese Survey Research Laboratory at https://bit.ly/3ygymGF.
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Presentations & Conference Participation
Adair, R., Cole, A. & Seitz, H. H. (2022, April). Adapting Diffusion of Innovation Theory items to measure the uptake of HappyHealthy recipes. Poster presented at the Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State, MS.
Baldwin, A., McMillen, R. (2022, April). Risk of Addiction, E-cigarettes and Middle School Students. Poster presented at the 2022 Mississippi Public Health Association annual conference, Flowood, MS.
Baldwin, A., McMillen, R. (2022, April). Risk of Addiction, E-cigarettes and Middle School Students. Poster presented at the 2022 Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Starkville, MS.
Brenner, D., Byun, S., Means, D. R., Witham, K., Hartman, S.L, Roberts, K., Buffington, P. J., Biddle, C. (2022, April). Highlighting the future of rural education: Research agendas for rural preK-12 and Postsecondary Education [Interactive Roundtable]. American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.
Chisopo, A., Marinda, P., Mudege, N., Read-Wahidi, M., Ragsdale, K., Kolbila, R., & Smith, M. (2022). Post-Harvest Fish Loss and Impacts on Smallscale Fishery Livelihoods in Zambia and Adjacent Countries: A FishFirst! Zambia Literature Review. Poster Presentation. 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, MS, April 13, 2022.
Malama, F., Marinda, P., Mudege, N., Read-Wahidi, M., Ragsdale, K., Kolbila, R., & Issac, A. (2022). Fish Consumption and Related Nutritional Status Among Women and Young Children in Zambia and Adjacent Countries: A FishFirst! Zambia Literature Review. Poster Presentation. 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, MS, April 13, 2022.
Mississippi Tobacco Data served as an exhibitor at the 2022 Mississippi Public Health Association Conference, 6-8 April 2022, Flowood, MS.
Mississippi Tobacco Data presented surveillance data at the Mississippi Tobacco Control Network Quarterly Meeting, 13 April 2022.
Valentine, N. (2022, April). Youth Vaping in Mississippi: Findings from Virtual Focus Groups of Mississippi High School Students. Presented to the Mississippi Tobacco Control Network, Virtual.
Ragsdale, K. (2022). Quick Guide to Giving Great Scientific Presentation. Fish Innovation Lab Student Network Event. USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish. April 13, 2022. Invited Speaker. [Webinar]. https://rhody.webex.com/rhody/ldr.php?RCID=b58c4762f0f30de2f1dc6a76159aa81c
Walker, B. H., & Brown, D. C. (2022, April). Black-White differences in the rural lifespan variation penalty. Poster presented at the meeting of the Population Association of America, Atlanta, GA.
Wilson, K. J., Nguyen, T., & McKinney, C. (2022, May) Indirect effects of parent-child relationship quality on emotional and behavioral problems through empathy in emerging adult women and men. Poster session presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.
Wilson, K. J., Suarez-Jimenez, N., Young, M., Gerhardt, C., McDonnell, G., Stiles-Shields, C., & Chaves, E. (2022, April) The development and implementation of a pediatric psychology mentoring program for under-represented minoritized students. Poster session presented at the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
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