2025 Tides Baseball Game
The lab attended a baseball game for the Norfolk Tides, a AAA team under the Baltimore Orioles. Pictured below are Rachel Ayala Guzman, Emily Renzoni, Abby Braitman, Amy Collier, and Kendra Rigney (from Sarah Ehlke’s lab). Emma Hood wasn’t able to attend.
CPA 2025
The lab attended the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Abby Braitman, Jennifer Shipley, Rachel Ayala Guzman, and Emily Renzoni all presented. We also saw former lab member, Jordan Ortman, now at University of Central Florida. For more information on student posters please see the “Conferences” page. Pictured below are Emily Renzoni, Rachel Ayala Guzman, Abby Braitman, and Jennifer Shipley. Abby and Jordan stand at his poster.
SAA 2024
Some lab members attended the Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA) Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan in June 2024. Jennifer Shipley and Abby Braitman both presented. For more information on student posters please see the “Conferences” page. Kristin Heron and Meredith Turner of the HaBiT lab also presented. Pictured below are Emily Renzoni, Kendra Rigney, Rachel
CPA 2024
The lab attended the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Jennifer Shipley, Rachel Ayala Guzman, and Emily Renzoni all presented. For more information on student posters please see the “Conferences” page. Pictured below are Emily Renzoni, Kendra Rigney, Rachel Ayala Guzman, Jennifer Shipley, and Abby Braitman getting ice cream. We also joined other ODU presenters at the conference for a dinner! Front row: Abby Braitman, Rachel Ayala Guzman, and Kelsey Allison; Back row: Jennifer Shipley, Kendra Rigney, Emily Renzoni, Samantha Fitzer, and Sarah Ehlke.
2024 President’s Reception for Outstanding Graduate Students
In March 2024, ODU’s President Hemphill hosted a reception for outstanding graduate students who had many excellent achievements in research. Jennifer Shipley (mentor Abby Braitman) was selected for the Psychology PhD program, and Emily Junkin (mentor Cathy Lau-Barraco) was selected for the Clinical Psychology PhD program. They joined a reception at the President’s house in their honor. Pictured below are Cathy Lau-Barraco, Emily Junkin, Jennifer Shipley, and Abby Braitman at the reception.
Fall 2023
In non-academic-related news, members of the lab went to Top Golf for the lab social of Fall 2023! The lab enjoyed swinging (and missing) golf balls during one of the final warmer days of the season.
From left to right: Kendra Rigney (member of Dr. Sarah Ehlke’s lab), Emily Renzoni, Abby Braitman, Jennifer Shipley, and Rachel Ayala Guzman.
RSA 2023
The lab attended the 46th Annual Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) Scientific Meeting in Bellevue, WA. All members enjoyed some fun downtime as well as presenting findings from their research.
First photo from left to right: Abby Braitman, Jennifer Shipley, Rachel Ayala Guzman. Second photo from left to right: Rachel Ayala Guzman, Abby Braitman, and Megan Strowger. Third photo from left to right: Jennifer Shipley, Megan Strowger, Rachel Ayala Guzman, and Abby Braitman.
Spring 2023 Mermaid Factor
Lab members from the ETOH lab and the HaBIT lab (together comprising the REACH student association) went to the Mermaid Factor in Norfolk, VA to create their own personalized mermaids. Just like the iconic statues found around the city of Norfolk. There are over 100 of these statues in Norfolk, and you can use the Interactive Mermaid Spotting Map to find them. Pictured are (front row) Abby Braitman, Rachel Ayala Guzman, Kristin Heron, Kayla Pitchford, (back row) Meredith Turner, Megan Strowger, Jennifer Shipley, and Cassidy Sandoval.
Spring 2023 Student Grants and Awards
Jennifer Shipley was awarded the ODU Summer Research Award from the Graduate School which comes with $3,000 to support her dissertation research.
CPA 2023
The lab attended the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Annual Meeting. Abby Braitman, Jennifer Shipley, Rachel Ayala Guzman, and Megan Strowger all presented. For more information on student posters please see the “Conferences” page.
3MT
Megan Strowger was a finalist in Old Dominion University’s Graduate School’s sixth annual 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT®) competition. She practiced hard for several months beforehand to prepare a talk that was 2 minutes and 50 seconds long about her preliminary dissertation findings. Her talk was titled, “Don’t Picture This: Exploring the Link Between Seeing Alcohol Content on Social Media and College Drinking Over Time”.
Inaugural Polysubstance Use Symposium 2022
Jennifer Shipley and Abby Braitman attended the Inaugural Polysubstance Use Symposium in New York, NY. Jennifer presented a poster and was the recipient of the student scholarship award. For more information on her poster, please see the “Conferences” page.
RSA 2022
The lab attended the 45th Annual Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) Scientific Meeting in Orlando, FL. From left to right, Abby Braitman, Rachel Ayala Guzman, Megan Strowger, and Jennifer Shipley.
ODU College of Sciences Award Ceremony 2022
Jennifer Shipley won the Outstanding MS Thesis award, and Abby Braitman won the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor award.
Spring 2022 Student Grants and Awards
Megan Strowger was awarded the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute on Alcohol Effects and Alcohol-Associated Disorders. Megan was also awarded the ODU Summer Research Award from the Graduate School which comes with $3,000 to support her dissertation research.
Spring 2021 Student Grants and Awards
Jennifer Shipley won the Graduate Student Research Award from the Society for Health Psychology (Division 38) which came with $2,000 to support her thesis research.