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On October 6th, 2025, an esteemed member in the PANDAA Lab, Kayce Hopper, successfully proposed her dissertation titled "The Impact of Distress Tolerance on the Association between Sleep Disturbances and Alcohol Use among College Students." We look forward to the completion of Kayce's dissertation...

Congratulations to Madeline Mueller for successfully defending her honors thesis! Her thesis was entitled: Examining Differences in Functional Impairment in Individuals With and Without Misophonia.

Congratulations to Dr. Megan Perry for successfully defending her dissertation! Her dissertation was entitled: The Influence of Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Exclusion on Distress Among Individuals with Social Anxiety Symptoms

Congratulations to Lara Grace Fair for successfully defending her honors thesis! Her thesis was entitled Analyzing the Unique Role of Repetitive Negative Thinking on Insomnia in College Students.

Congratulations to Ruth Emmon Tyson for successfully defending her honors thesis! Her thesis was entitled The Relationship between Coping Behaviors and Misophonia Symptom Severity and Impairment.

Landry Woodward won Second Place for the undergraduate poster presentation at the Annual Mississippi Psychological Association Conference. Her poster focused on an examination of impulsivity in relation to facets of aggression among socially anxious individuals. We are so proud of her!

Congrats to Dr. Sara Witcraft who successfully defended her dissertation in August 2021! Her dissertation was entitled Do Individuals With Functional Gastrointestinal Symptoms Experience Emotions Differently? An Examination of Emotional Responding During a Series of Emotion Induction Tasks.

The HART Lab officially wrapped up the spring semester with our last full lab meeting. We are celebrating the end of the academic year and congratulating all of our folks who are graduating!

Congrats to Carson! Carson Schmitz was awarded one of the 2020 UM-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which supports her research endeavors over the summer. Her project is entitled Race and anxiety as predictors of e-cigarette use in college and community samples.