Lab News!
September, 2025
Max Stivers, a graduate student in Dr. Raymond Tucker's MOSB Lab and frequent collaborator with the SPRT, published a guest column in LSU's Reveille Newspaper. The article, related to suicide prevention, can be read here.
July, 2025
Funded by a Hero Grant awarded to LSU and in collaboration with Our Lady of the Lake Hospital/OLOL Psychiatric Services, the SPRT launched a new outpatient suicide prevention service for youth. A graduate student, under the supervision of Dr. Hill, will be offering the CAMS-4Teens Intervention in the OLOL outpatient Psychiatry service here in Baton Rouge!
Thais!
Caleb!
April, 2024
This past spring, undergraduate research assistants Thais Wise, Isabel Crumley, Ky Trahan, and Caleb Yaccarino showcased their research at the 12th Annual LSU Discover Day Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. Thais shared her findings on college students' self-reported moods and their ability to recognize school shooting-related content on social media, while Isabel presented qualitative insights into perceived contribution. Ky discussed the internal reliability of the Perceived Contribution Scale, and Caleb highlighted his research on the quality and satisfaction of coding suicide safety plans in a research setting.
Ky!
Isabel!
October, 2023
Undergraduate research assistant, Alyson Rivers, received the Tiger Athletic Foundation Honor's College Thesis Research Scholarship. Alyson is working on her Honors Thesis under the mentorship of Dr. Hill; her project is entitled Comparing Three Methods of Suicide Safety Planning. These scholarships are meant to assist students with costs associated with the preparation of their Honors Thesis and may be used towards research materials, reduction of non-academic employment, or other expenses that will further research.
July, 2023
We are starting the Fall 2023 semester off with a welcome to the new SPRT Lab! The lab was recently set up and newly furnished by Dr. Hill and the lab assistants.
April 2023
The SPRT Lab is happy to welcome new graduate students to the lab, Tyler Hendley and Austin Starkey. Tyler is from Kannapolis, NC and graduated from Clemson University’s Honors College with a B.S. in psychology and a minor in life sciences. After graduation, Tyler was accepted into McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School’s Post-Baccalaureate Clinical Fellowship in the Simches Center of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Austin is a first-year graduate student at LSU working with the SPRL Lab. He was born in Lima, OH and graduated from Florida State University with a B.S in Psychology and Sociology. After graduating, he worked in Dr. Pamela Keel’s Eating Behaviors Research Clinic at Florida State; following this, he took a position as a research associate with the Suicide and Trauma Reduction Initiative for Veterans (STRIVE). More in-depth introductions to our new lab members can be found on our members page.