On May 22, 2023, the Yale Child Study Center announced the results of the Spring 2023 round of awards for the department’s postgraduate travel award, which offers $500 towards the travel expenses of postgraduate associates (PGAs) attending national or international scientific conferences. The awardees are as follows, along with their abstract titles, mentors, and conference attended.
Reeda Iqbal
- Title: The relationship between ADHD symptoms and looking patterns in children with ASD: Results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT)
- Mentor: Jamie McPartland
- Conference: INSAR
Cassandra Franke
- Title: The Relationship between Irritability and Neural Response to Faces in Autistic Children: Results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT)
- Mentor: Jamie McPartland
- Conference: INSAR
Anastasia Rose
- Title: Gender Moderates the Association Between Emotional Self-Efficacy and Generalized Anxiety Symptoms in Clinic Referred Youth
- Mentor: Eli Lebowitz
- Conference: Anxiety and Depression Conference
Grace Cotter
- Title: Dynamic Processes Between Irritability and Trauma Exposure Within the Family System: A Network Approach
- Mentor: Wan-Ling Tseng
- Conference: Society for Research in Child Development
Sydney Terroso
- Title: The relationship between anxiety symptoms and adaptive and social functioning in children with autism spectrum disorder
- Mentor: Pam Ventola
- Conference: INSAR
Veda Donthireddy
- Title: Reward Value Learning in the Social Domain Emerges at 6 Months of Age
- Mentors: Kasia Chawarska & Suzanne Macari
- Conference: INSAR
Katherine All
- Title: Early Executive and Social Functioning Predict Externalizing Problems in Neurodiverse Preschoolers
- Mentor: Suzanne Macari
- Conference: INSAR
The goal of this travel award is three-fold, to 1) encourage PGAs to present their research at scientific conferences, facilitate interacting with leaders in their fields of interest at these conferences, and 3) support career development. Eligibility guidelines and application instructions for this award, which is offered twice per year, are available on the YCSC intranet. Award committee members include Ellen Hoffman (chair), Thomas Fernandez, James Leckman, Paul Lombroso, Helena Rutherford, and Dorothy Stubbe.