Florida International University, Center for Children and Families, Miami International Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference at the FIU North Campus Roz and Cal Kovens Conference Center in Miami on Feb. 5th, 2020. (Photo by MagicalPhotos.com / Mitchell Zachs) 
Florida International University, Center for Children and Families, Miami International Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference at the FIU North Campus Roz and Cal Kovens Conference Center in Miami on Feb. 5th, 2020. (Photo by MagicalPhotos.com / Mitchell Zachs)
Student Awards
2012: American Psychological Foundation Violet & Cyril Franks Scholarship (Weisman)
2013-14: University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (Knapp)
2014: American Psychological Association Graduate Student Association (APAGS) State Leader of the Year (Modir)
2015: International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) Outstanding Student Advocacy & Service Award (Capous)
2016-17: University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (Capous)
2017: Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) NSR Dissertation Research Grant (Santacrose)
2017-18: University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (Liu)
2018: University Award of Distinction (Santacrose)
2018: APA, Division 37, Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice Student Poster Award, Patterns of Adversity and Pathways to Health Among Ethnic Minority Youth (Liu)
2019: Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma, First Prize Poster Award, Assessing for Secondary Distress Using Social Media: An Examination of the Psychological Impact of Black Lives Matter (Sims)
2021: American Psychological Association, Division 56 (Trauma), Outstanding Dissertation in Trauma Psychology Award (Liu)
2021: American Psychological Association, Division 56 (Trauma), Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant (Sims)
Predoctoral Internships and Postdoctoral Sites
2012-13 Children’s Institute, Los Angeles, CA (Levitan)
2013-14 Counseling & Psychological Services, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (Knapp)
2014-15 Louisiana State University Health Sciences, New Orleans, LA (Schock; Post-doc: Kaiser)
2015-16 Long Island VA, Long Island, NY (Brown; Post-doc: Boston VA)
2015-16 Pacific Clinics, Pasadena, CA (Lepore; Post-doc: UCLA)
2016-17 UCLA Semel Institute, Los Angeles, CA (Modir; Post-doc: Children’s Hospital Orange County)
2016-17 University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio TX (Weisman; Post-doc: San Francisco VA)
2017-18 UCLA Semel Institute, Los Angeles, CA (Santacrose; Post-doc: UCLA)
2019-20 Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA (Liu; Post-doc: UC Irvine NIH Conte Center )
2021-22 NYU School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY (Taghavi)
2021-22 Columbia University/Irving Medical Center, New York, NY (Sims)
Maryam Kia-Keating, Ph.D. 