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As a high school senior just three years ago, Hannah Fender was not overly excited about attending �������ϲ�����. Now, she loves it so much, she’s staying for graduate school.

�������ϲ�����’s Angela Neal-Barnett has been working diligently to build up the Spirit of Motherhood program with the goal of reducing trauma and stress symptoms experienced by its pregnant Black mother participants. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation recently awarded the program another $300,000 to continue its work over the next three years.

Hannah Fender is entering the home stretch.

She crunched her bachelor’s degree studies into three years, packed them full of research and other activities and now she is staring down the final 10 weeks of her undergraduate college career.

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., a psychology professor at �������ϲ����� and an expert in the field, emphasizes that triggers for anxiety disorders vary depending on the specific disorder.

Soon after her decision to major in psychology at �������ϲ�����, someone had suggested to Hannah Fender that she should get involved in research as an undergraduate. So, she signed up to work in the research lab of Clare Stacey, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, looking into how empathy changes over time in medical students. And that's when Fender was first bitten by the research bug. 

�������ϲ����� researchers are looking for 10,000 students to participate in an ambitious Student Life Study launching this semester. 

�������ϲ����� Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychological Sciences shares her expertise in a Deseret Magazine article about the quarter-life crisis. She discusses the stage of development called “emerging adulthood.”

ATHENA Akron, a women’s leadership organization in Summit County, Ohio, has named Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at �������ϲ�����, its winner of the 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award. She will receive the award on Nov. 17 at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn.