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July 2002: Beth Phillips left to begin her clinical internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA.Good luck, Beth!
June 2002: The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) is born.
May 2002: Eric Hooe sucessfully defended his dissertation!!! Yea, Dr. Eric!!!!
December 2001: Becky Gerhardstein leaves the lab for greener pastures in the Kistner Lab
December 2001: Julie Reihm (now McGuffy) takes a leave of absence from graduate school to start a family.
October 2001: Chris Lonigan (Co-PI) along with Dr. JoAnn Farver (Co-PI, University of Southern California) were awarded a five-year grant (10/2001 - 09/2006) of $5.8 million from the National Science Foundation (Interagency Educational Research Initiative) to invesitgate "Enhancing Preschoolers Pre-literacy Skills."
August 2001: Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti, MA joins the lab as a project coordinator for the Preschool Prevention project.
August 2001: Tony Richey has joined our lab as a first year graduate student in clinical psychology.
May 2001: Kelly Cukrowicz leaves the lab for grenner pastures in the Wagner lab.
February 2001: Chris Longian (Co-I) along with Dr. Amy Wetherby were awarded a three-year grant (2/2001 - 1/2004) of $900,000 to investigate "Improving Early Identification of Young Children At-Risk for Language & Reading Difficulties"
December 2000: Kim Driscoll leaves the lab for greener pastures in the Kistner Lab
September 2000: Beth Phillips is awarded a two-year $40,000 Head Start Scholars research grant!
July 2000: Julie Riehm has joined our lab as a first year graduate student in clinical psychology.
June 2000: Jason Anthony left to begin his clinical internship at the University of Washington. Good luck Jason!
May 2000: Jason Anthony successfully defended his dissertation.
April 2000: Beth Phillips successfully defended her masters thesis.
April 2000: Chris Lonigan was named one of five receipients of Florida State University's Developing Scholar Award.
February 2000: Sarah Dyer successfully defended her masters thesis.
October 1999: Colleen McClain leaves FSU to return to the Northeast (and graduate school at Fordham University).
October 1999: Jason Anthony was awarded an American Psychological Foundation's Graduate Research Scholarship in Psychology. This award represents one of only 10 scholarships that were awarded from this year's national competition. Congratulations to Jason!
August 1999: Kimberly Bacon, Kelly Cukrowicz, Becky Gerhardstein, Colleen McClain, and Brad White have joined our lab as first year graduate students in clinical psychology (some even stayed).
August 1999: Colleen McClain was awarded a University Fellowship
August 1999: Becky Gerhardstein was awarded a University Fellowship
August 1999: Chris Lonigan was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
July 1999: Chris Lonigan (Co-I) along with Dr. Rick Wagner (PI) and Dr. Joe Torgesen (Co-I) were awarded a five-year grant (7/1999 to 6/2004) of $1.3 million to investigate "Pre-readers Reading-Related Phonological Processes."
May 1999: Chris Lonigan was a receipient of one of this years Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) awards at Florida State University.
May 1999: Beth Phillips successfully defended her masters thesis proposal.
March 1999: Chris Longian (Co-PI) along with Dr. Joe Torgesen (PI) and Dr. Rick Wagner (Co-PI) were awarded a five-year grant (2/1999 - 1/2004) of $3.8 million to investigate the "Prevention and Remediation of Reading Disabilities." Our lab's role will focus on the evaluation of a preschool intervention to prevent reading disabilities in at-risk children.
March 1999: Jason Anthony successfully defended his doctoral qualifying exam.
March 1999: Jason Anthony sucessfully completed his comprehensive exam for an Ed.S. in School Psychology.
February 1999: Brenlee Bloomfield successfully defended her masters thesis.
February 1999: Eric Hooe was accepted to the University of Health Sciences Center, Clinical Psychology Internship Program for 1999-2000.
January 1999: Chris Lonigan was awarded a two-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study computerized interventions for phonological sensitivity with preschool children.
December 1998: Chris Lonigan was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology.
November 1998: Chris Lonigan was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
November 1998: Chris Lonigan was awarded a one-year CRC planning grant from Florida State University to investigate temperamental and attentional processes in childhood psychopathology.
September 1998: Chris Lonigan (Principal Investigator), along with Howard Goldstein (Co-Investigator, FSU Department of Communication Disorders) was awarded a 5-year grant to study the development and promotion of emergent literacy skills in children attending Head Start.
August 1998: Chris Lonigan was re-elected to serve as Member-at-Large to the Executive Committee of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology's (Division 12, American Psychological Association).
August 1998: Jason Anthony was co-winner of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology's (Division 12, American Psychological Association) Student Research Award. He received the award at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco and gave a brief presentation of his research paper.
May 1998: Chris Lonigan (Co-Investigator), along with Howard Goldstein, Ph.D. (Principal Investigator; FSU Department of Communication Disorders), and others were awarded a four-year Leadership Personnel Preparation grant from the U.S. Department of Education for students interested in Multidisciplinary Training in Developmental Disabilities.
March 1998: Chris Lonigan was awarded a two-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the development of phonological sensitivity in preschool children.
March 1998: Eric Hooe successfully defended his doctoral dissertation prospectus.
February 1998: Eric Hooe was awarded a dissertation grant from the Division of Graduate Studies at Florida State University.
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