Lab News!
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 Starkey 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.