Community Engagement

Ph.D. student Alexandra Rodriguez discusses how art can improve mental health and offers tips for incorporating art into your own wellness practice.

Students demonstrated that with minimal resources, providers can offer meaningful aural rehabilitation training for their patients.

As a psychiatric epidemiologist, Catherine Woodstock Striley’s, PhD, MSW, MPE, research is concerned with increasing the recognition of psychopathology and addictive behavior to, in turn, increase service receipt, and with decreasing barriers to service. She has been a Co-Investigator on research involving community members, out-of-treatment drug users, and women in…

Dr. Wiens’ research primarily focuses on program evaluation for school mental health programs and violence and substance use prevention efforts in the Columbia County School District. She also conducts research on child and adolescent peer victimization and aggression, as well as adolescent substance use and other risky behavior. Dr. Wiens…

Dr. Rose’s research investigates the development and implementation of behavioral intervention strategies, based on principles of neuroplasticity and motor learning, for the rehabilitation of motor control deficits following neurologic injury and disease. She investigates the role of adjuvants, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, to behavioral interventions for the recovery…

Dr. Kane’s current research interests focus on aquatic pathology and toxicology, environmental health, low-level stress outcomes in aquatic organisms, behavioral toxicology, infectious diseases including non-tuberculous mycobacteria, water quality, environmental change, zoonoses, global health, and scientific outreach.

Dr. Harle’s research focuses on understanding how patients, consumers and health care professionals perceive and use health information and information technology. He draws on theory and methods from behavioral decision making, risk communication and machine learning in order to improve information systems that support health-related decision making. This research has…