Congratulations to Dr. Helseth who recently received a NIDA K23 grant

Dr. Kate Carey and colleagues published paper entitled "Correcting Exaggerated Drinking Norms With a Mobile Message Delivery System: Selective Prevention With Heavy-Drinking First-Year College Students." They sent 10 weeks of daily text messages containing accurate campus drinking norms to first year college students. At the end of the semester, students who received the norms texts drank less and reported fewer alcohol consequences that students who received daily texts with neutral content.

Congratulations to Sara Becker and Sarah Helseth on their new publication in Substance Abuse! Studying moderators of treatment outcome is important to help match patients to treatment. This study found that families with poor parent-teen communication and those with low levels of deviant peer affiliation had better outcomes if the parent received a brief motivational intervention than if they received brief education.

Jacob van den Berg just had a paper that published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, titled "Transmission Risk Among Youth Living With HIV in the U.S."

Mollie Monnig presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)

Dr. Sara Becker was a plenary speaker at the Rosecrance Health Network Inaugural Adolescent Behavioral Health Symposium

Drs. Patricia Cioe and Suzanne Colby presented at the American Lung Association in Providence RI

Jasjit Ahluwalia received a 2020 Research Seed Award from Brown University

Dr. Rachel Gunn recently published a paper titled "Complex cannabis use patterns: Associations with cannabis consequences and cannabis use disorder symptomatology" in the journal Addictive Behaviors. This paper examined the evolving cannabis use landscape by using latent class analysis to classify cannabis users from three college campuses across the U.S.

Sarah Helseth was recently chosen for NIDA's Justice Community Opioid Intervention Network (JCOIN)

Dr. van den Berg presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Mollie Monnig recently presented at the first annual Rhode Island Microbiome Symposium

Sara Becker presented at the Public Health TA Center Networking Meeting and at Penn State University

Hayley Padovano will present at the Society for Ambulatory Assessment in Australia