- Four members of the STRIPE Lab presented their capstone and independent project research at the UMN Undergraduate Research Symposium in April 2024, including Sara Jeremiason, Melanie Rodriguez-Mejia, Audrey Ronan, and Selena Xiao. Great work!
- We are delighted to welcome Lizy Szanton, a stellar new incoming doctoral student who will join the Counseling Psychology PhD program in Fall 2024 to work with Dr. Ertl and the STRIPE Lab! Congratulations, Lizy!
- Members of the STRIPE Lab participated in the UMN Psychology Undergraduate Research Fair in late March 2024!
- In February 2024, Dr. Ertl presented to the Hennepin University Partnership community on "PrEP for Cisgender Women Who Use Substances: Meeting the Needs of Those at the Margins."
- Shilpa Thomas was recognized with an Undergraduate Research Scholarship, which provides a stipend for outstanding students to conduct research under the mentorship of a UMN faculty member. In Summer 2024, Shilpa’s project will be conducted with Dr. Ertl and will focus on racial and ethnic differences in disordered eating symptomatology among college students.
- In Spring 2024, Audrey Ronan received a Dean’s First-Year Research and Creative Scholars (DFRACS) Program Scholarship, which is an experience offered to exceptional CLA first-year and transfer students to provide them an opportunity to engage in a CLA professor's research or creative project. Audrey will be working on lab management tasks, data analysis and scientific writing, and supporting a new data collection project with Dr. Ertl focused on experiences of internalized gender oppression.
- In December 2023, our lab published a new paper in Archives of Sexual Behavior, titled "Do Traditional Gender Role Beliefs Promote Abstinence and Sexual Health Behaviors Among Latina College Students?"
- In October 2023, Dr. Ertl received the Early Career Award for Excellence in Counseling Health Psychology Research from the American Psychological Association Division 17 Health Psychology Section.