Dr. Camille Gibson along with three graduate students and one undergraduate student presented at SWACJ 2016 Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, OK from October 13-15, 2016. Virtual currency crime investigation - Ying Cao, Doctoral Student, Prairie View A&M University Cross-over youth experiences in both child-welfare and juvenile justice - Sherri Y. Simmons-Horton, Doctoral Student, Prairie [...]
Matthew Bolton, a senior psychology major and Nayla Wofford, a junior psychology major, were selected to attend the 16th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Now in its sixteenth year, ABRCMS is one of the largest, professional conferences for underrepresented minority students, military veterans, and persons with disabilities to pursue advanced training in science, [...]
Seven undergraduate and two doctoral students attended the Fifth Black Undergraduate Student Conference in Psychology hosted by the Department of Psychology at Virginia State University. Dr. Aisha Asby mentored the scholarly research presented at this conference. Holmes, A., Stovall, J., Belcher, J., Williams, M., Asby, A. & Dickson, D. (April, 2016). Knowledge of AIDS/HIV amongst [...]
Three undergraduate students along with research mentor, Dr. Derek Wilson, attend the 73rd Annual Beta Kappa Chi National Honor Society Conference held at Hampton University. Students presented research on identity development and STEM career choices among students attending an HBCU. Wilson, N., Graves, K., Bolton, M. & Wilson, D. (March, 2016). The racial-science identity: Exploring [...]
Dr. Myrna Cintron, Ph.D.(Justice Studies Department), P.I. and Dr. Michael Nojeim, Dept. of Political Science (Co-PI), received a Panther Research Institute Program, summer mini-grant ($10,000). Their research proposed to conduct three focus groups with Latino adults. The goal of the research was to elicit opinions about unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexican borders and about immigration [...]
Five graduate students traveled to Wichita, Kansas in the spring to present research at the Southwestern Psychological association (SWPA) convention. One student, Shauna Richards, who is in the Master of Science in Juvenile Forensic Psychology program described it as "four days of amazing interactions and cognitive contemplations." Courtney Mosley and Dr. Joe Dickson presented on [...]
Dr. Camille Gibson has long taken the goal of increasing the visibility of the College of Juvenile Justice at Prairie View A&M University seriously. Years of service to the university and to justice studies garnered her the Felix Fabian Founder’s Award this academic year from the Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice. She has also been [...]
Julia F. Hastings, M.S.W., Ph.D., Lani V. Jones, M.S.W., Ph.D., and Pamela P. Martin, Ph.D. co-authored a book titled African Americans and Depression: Signs, Awareness, Treatments, and Interventions. The book examines the realities of depression among African Americans, and the various ways in which sufferers and their families address, or don’t address, it. The [...]
Dr. Camille Gibson and colleagues were awarded a grant from the Hogg Foundation to evaluate the significant role that faith plays in the lives of African Americans. The goals of this initiative are to expand African American faith-based programs and ministries in Texas to include mental health. Dr. Gibson, an associate professor of Justice Studies, [...]
In July, Karen Lane, a recent graduate of the Master’s Juvenile Forensic Psychology Program, has been appointed as the Clinical Liaison for the American Psychology-Law Society's Graduate Student Committee. She is the first student from Prairie View A&M University to be elected to a position on this committee. Her duties include maintaining an internship database [...]
