News and Social Media Coverage

Dr. Gia Barboza-Salerno and Taylor Harrington publish new research in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth identifying five distinct antenatal stress profiles and their links to adverse birth outcomes.

Dr. Gia Barboza-Salerno shares her journey through Oceania and her experience presenting at the 2026 ISPCAN World Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Melbourne, Australia.

Keith Warren and Gia Barboza-Salerno have successfully completed the Santa Fe Institute’s Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) certificate course, expanding the lab’s methodological expertise in computational social science.

Undergraduate psychology student Malcolm McCarthy presented his first-authored poster, ‘How Multiple Environmental Factors Influence Mental Health Outcomes,’ at the APA 2026 Annual Convention in Washington, DC.

Our paper on spatial patterns, segregation, and vulnerability of urban seniors using geospatial analytics and modeling has been selected as the winner of the Urban Science Best Paper Award.

Our paper on spatial patterns, disparities, and classification of U.S. nonfatal self-inflicted firearm injuries has been published in the Journal of Community Health.

Dr. Amy Watson-Grace has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding research.

Olivia McLucas has been awarded a statistics scholarship from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences.

Hexin Yang and Taylor Harrington have successfully passed their candidacy exams and are now PhD candidates.

The ISSUES Lab is excited to welcome our new Graduate Research Assistants for the upcoming term.

Dr. Barboza-Salerno addresses the Grand Challenge to Prevent Gun Violence in a feature by the College of Social Work.