Two STARRC Graduate Students Selected for Funding from the UK Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women

STARRC graduate students Alex Brake and Caitlyn Hood were selected to receive funding from the UK Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women to support their research. Alex Brake received a graduate fellowship award to support his dissertation project: Modeling the experience of posttraumatic stress symptoms and contamination feelings among survivors of sexual assault. Caitlyn Hood received the Mary Byron Research Assistantship to support her masters research: The effect of violence history, PTSD, and trauma-focused disclosure on pain sensitivity in college women. Caitlyn declined this award in order to pursue training in substance abuse research on a National Institute on Drug Abuse T32 award.