August 2022 – Adam O’Riordan officially starts his postdoctoral fellowship with the Baylor Behavioral Medicine Lab.
July 2022 – Adam O’Riordan successfully defends his PhD at the University of Limerick. Adam will begin his postdoctoral fellowship in the Baylor Behavioral Medicine Laboratory this August!
May 2022 – Kristen Giebel (undergraduate student) was awarded the Most Outstanding Student in Neuroscience award and the Hebl-Cherry award.
May 2022 – Tiera Cleveland (undergraduate student) was awarded the Service Award from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
April 2022 – Siobhán Griffin receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellowship, which will fund two years of postdoctoral work in the Baylor Behavioral Medicine Laboratory.
April 2022 – Alexandra Tyra (graduate student) received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
April 2022 – Luis Vega (undergraduate student) was named McNair Scholar
November 2021 – Dr. Ginty receives Herbert Weiner Early Career Award from the American Psychosomatic Society.
September 2021 – Tiera Cleveland (undergraduate student) was named a Trailblazer Scholar.
June 2021 – Alexandra Tyra (graduate student) was named Solid Gold Neighbor Research Fellow
May 2021 – Michelle Obiesie (undergraduate student) was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and initiated into membership of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
May 2021 – Samantha Soto (undergraduate student) was awarded the Outstanding Research Award from the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience.
May 2021 – Taryn Cook (undergraduate student) was awarded two prestigious awards, the Most Outstanding Student in Neuroscience award and Hebl-Cherry Award, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
May 2021 – Ashley Bancroft (undergraduate student) was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
April 2021 – Hannah Gruman and Akanksha Mishr ( undergraduate students) successfully defended their senior honors theses.
April 2021 – The Baylor Behavioral Medicine Laboratory received a grant from URSA to fund undergraduate student research examining imagery and stress.
April 2021 –Anny Zheng (undergraduate student) was named a McNair Scholar.
April 2021 – Dr. Ginty was awarded the Elizabeth Vardamn (“Betsy”) Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates.
December 2020 – Alexandra Tyra and Page Hurley (graduate students) received citation posters recognition at The American Psychosomatic Society Virtual Conference.
November 2020 – Jorawar Sandu (an undergraduate student) was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
May 2020 – Samantha Soto (undergraudtae student) was a recipient of the Jim H. Patton Scholarship in Neuroscience, which is awarded yearly to an outstanding junior in Neuroscience.
April 2020 – Taryn Cook and Samantha Soto (undergraduate students) each received URSA outstanding student presentation awards for their posters at the annual URSA Conference.
March 2020 – Thirteen undergraduate students and two graduate students had posters prepared to present at The American Psychosomatic Society! However, the conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 2020 – The Baylor Behavioral Medicine Laboratory was awarded an Allergan Foundation Grant to work with Boys & Girls Club to implement a high intensity interval training program.
November 2019 – Samantha Soto (undergraduate student) received the Presentation Award for Neuroscience at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.
September 2019 – Samantha Soto, Akanksha Mishra, Avery Corneil, and Adeline Webb (undergraduarte students) presented their summer research projects at the McNair Conference hosted by Baylor University.
September 2019 – The stress videos, created as part of the AXA Scientific Outreach Grant, are officially finished. Click the links to learn more about stress and health! Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
August 2019 – Dr. Ginty was awarded a National Institutes of Health Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) from the National Institutes of Health.
July 2019 – Alexandra Tyra (graduate student) successfully defended her Master’s thesis examining the association between hostility and cardiovascular responses to repeated acute stress. Published Manuscript
March 2019 – Samantha Soto (undergraduate student) was named a McNair Scholar
July 2018 – The Baylor Behavioral Medicine Laboratory was awarded an AXA Scientific Outreach Grant in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Pressman at UC Irvine January 2018 – The Baylor Behavioral Medicine Laboratory was awarded a URC Small Grant to start a high intensity interval training program at The Cove.