Kudos: Two faculty members awarded 2020 Sarah H. Moss Fellowships; Alumna included in American Psychological Association's resource guide

Two faculty members awarded 2020 Sarah H. Moss Fellowships

Julianne Schmidt, co-director of the UGA Concussion Research Lab and associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology, and Usree Bhattacharya, an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, received 2020 Sarah H. Moss Fellowships.

Since 1987, the fellowship, administered by UGA’s Center for Teaching and Learning, provides funds for travel and related expenses for tenure-track faculty pursuing advanced scholarship, research, and study in institutions of higher learning.

Schmidt’s research will explore head impacts in boxing. Additionally, she will create educational materials based on her research that encourage athletes and military personnel to seek out medical care for concussions. Bhattacharya’s fellowship will fund her stay as a visiting scholar at the University of Messina in Italy next summer. There, she will participate in choice behavior, telerehabilitation, and cognitive empowerment research in Rett Syndrome, a rare genetic mutation that affects brain development in girls.

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Alumna included in American Psychological Association’s resource guide

Cristalis Capielo (Ph.D. ’16) is one of several notable women in psychology included in the American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource guide.

Capielo is a counseling psychologist whose research focuses on examining the multi-systemic and intersecting determinants of health and migration among Latinxs, particularly Puerto Ricans.

Prepared by the APA’s Committee on Women in Psychology, the guide informs 19th Amendment celebration planners by contextualizing the impact of the amendment’s adoption on women’s lives, particularly for women of color, women with disabilities, poor women, and other women.