Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Burke on receiving her second NIH R01 award, shared with Dr. Brooke Ammerman as Multi-Principal Investigators. A Mechanistic Analysis of the Transition from Nonsuicidal to Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescent Girls seeks to identify the mechanisms linking nonsuicidal self-injury to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescent girls. We are thrilled to celebrate this achievement and look forward to the important contributions this new project will make to suicide...

Please join us in welcoming our newest Clinical Research Coordinators, Katelynn Cooper, Savannah Sedlock, and Vanessa Assaf, to the lab! We are excited to have them join the team and look forward to working with them as they contribute to our research and support our participants. Welcome aboard!

Congratulations to Rachel on receiving an NIH K23 Award and on completing her postdoctoral fellowship a full year ahead of schedule! Rachel’s K23, “Sleep and Circadian Timing Irregularities as Short-term Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide: An Intensive Longitudinal Study,” focuses on improving short-term prediction of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents by examining how sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions contribute to suicide risk. Using intensive longitudinal methods,...