Janae Alexander received the SOPHE 2021 Graduate Student Research Paper Award recipient. The award is designed to foster quality graduate student research and provide a mechanism to recognize outstanding graduate students for creative and innovative research.  Ms. Alexander’s abstract, “Association between Marijuana use and the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus,” was nominated for consideration. The abstract was selected for this award based on the review committee...

Ms. Idoko was selected to receive the Texas A&M University Dissertation Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Texas A&M University’s Office of Graduate and Professional Studies recently awarded dissertation fellowships as part of their Dissertation Fellowship Program. Developed in Fall 2011 by the Associate Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies, Dr. Karen Butler-Purry, the Dissertation Fellowship supports doctoral students in the late stages of degree program completi...

Dr. Lisa T. Wigfall has started her new position at MD Anderson Cancer Center as the Associate Director for the Cancer Prevention Research Program. She will co-director the CPRIT Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cancer Prevention Program. Congratulations on your new endeavor; you will be missed.

Dr. Idethia Shevon Harvey received the NIDDK grant proposal for her project, “The Study of Type-2 diabetes and the Rural Experience regarding Self-management behavior and Stress Project: The STRESS Project.”

Kaileigh Roan joins TCHER as doctoral students this Fall Semester. Kaileigh Roan received her Master of Education from Tarleton State University in Higher Education. Kaileigh is interested in sexual health among sexual minority individuals. She currently works as an academic advisor within the department. Welcome to TCHER and graduate school.

Nia White is the newest intern for the Transdisciplinary Center for Health Equity Research. She is a senior Community Health major, Psychology minor at Texas A&M University. Nia is from Atlanta, Georgia and is a recipient of the Posse Foundation Scholarship. She has experience in program planning and evaluation. Within TAMU's Department of Health and Kinesiology, she has served as a research assistant for Dr. Jeffrey Guidry on the Health Disparities, Education, Awareness, Research, and Train...

Dr. Harvey, Dr. Whitney Garney and community partner, Alton Burton from Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse were interview for National Rural Health Day.

Drs. Idethia Shevon Harvey and Tamika Gilreath were awarded the College of Education and Human Development’s Faculty Leadership Fellows Program (FLFP).

Francisco A. Montiel Ishino, a TCHER doctoral candidate in the Division of Health Education, abstract “A latent class analysis of acculturation on mean telomere length among Hispanics/Latinxs in the US” was chosen by the reviewers and Program Committee as an excellent student authored submission and was recognized as a Meritorious Abstract and Citation Abstract during the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in Washington, DC. 

Jameisha Brown, a TCHER doctoral candidate in the Division of Health Education, was accepted into the Master of Divinity program at Emory Candler School of Theology, beginning in the Fall 2019 term. Candler, a top United Methodist Church official seminary, is ranked No. 6 on the annual list of Seminaries that Change the World (2018-19).