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Psychology Professor Studies Adolescent Mental Health and Social Media Use

Sophia Choukas-Bradley, a professor in the Department of Psychology in the Dietrich School is submitting her first paper about adolescents and social media to a psychology journal. It’s 2014, the early days of online culture, before teens lived on likes and danced on TikTok, and before parents and experts worried too much about the consequences.

Perhaps it explains why Choukas-Bradley’s paper is so quickly rejected, and why the journal’s anonymous peer reviewers offer her such a chilly — and ultimately shortsighted — rebuke.

Africana Studies Professor, Tiana Wilson, OAH 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize Recipient

Tiana Wilson, an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies in the Dietrich School is the recipient of the Organization of American Historian’s 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize. The Lerner-Scott Prize recognizes the top PhD dissertation in U.S. Women’s History and was presented at the OAH’s 2024 Conference on American History.
 

Political Science Professor Interviewed for Politico Article

Kristin Kanthak, an associate professor of political science in the Dietrich School was interviewed for an article in Politico that was published on Thursday. The article “Pa. Republicans are pushing mail-in voting for 2024, but Trump-fueled skepticism remains in the party” takes a look at republican strategy, specifically in Pennsylvania, for the upcoming 2024 Presidential election.

APS Division of Particles & Fields was Combined with the Annual Phenomenology Symposium for 2024

This year the APS Division of Particles & Fields (DPF) Meeting was hosted by the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. The meeting was also combined with the annual Phenomenology Symposium (Pheno). This is the first year that the two conferences have been combined. The week-long event took place from May 13-17 and covered topics in particle physics theory and experiment and related issues in astrophysics and cosmology.