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2025
2025
August - Chance Dow published another first-author manuscript in the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Gaming Research & Review Journal! These manuscripts were both from a research fellowship funded by UNLV and ESPN.
July - Chance Dow started seeing clients in The Gambling Clinic this summer. We are looking forward to watching Chance develop his clinical skills!
June - Maggie Gunnigle graduated with her bachelor's degree from Rhodes College. We are looking forward to welcoming Maggie to the lab this summer and upcoming academic year as a postbac in the lab!
May - Brianna Morelli (first author) and Maggie Gunnigle (second author) published their first peer-reviewed journal article. This article represents a lot of hard work from these two students who gained a ton of research skills throughout the process. We are proud of Brianna and Maggie!
April - Maggie Gunnigle presented a poster on the effectiveness of pharmacological interventions at the Alberta Gaming Research Institute's international conference in Banff, Alberta (Canada). This project is Maggie's first meta-analysis in the lab!
March - Chance Dow published a paper on his college student focus group studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas's Gaming Research & Review journal. This study is one of several studies that Chance is working on related to college student gambling in the lab.
February - Brianna Morelli was accepted into the clinical psychology doctoral program at The University of Memphis! We are proud of Brianna and are looking forward to what she does during the next five years of her graduate training.
January - Dr. Pfund was appointed an Associate Editor at the Journal of Gambling Studies. He will work alongside Associate Editors, Drs. Meredith Ginley and Andrew Kim, and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Jim Whelan.
2024
2024
December - Halle Smith defended her master's thesis on financial distress in seeking treatment for gambling disorder. Halle will be moving on to become an AP Psychology teacher at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis. We will miss you, Halle!
November - Dr. Pfund had a grant funded as co-investigator on a grant from the International Center for Responsible Gaming! This grant will allow him and his colleagues to investigate the benefits of adding financial incentives to attend cognitive-behavioral treatment for gambling disorder.
October - All the undergraduate students in the TREAT Lab received an honorable mention for best poster at the International Center for Responsible Gaming conference. Congrats to them for their impressive team work!!!
September - Dr. Pfund received the 2024 Scientific Achievement Award from the International Center for Responsible Gaming.
August - August was a productive month for students in the TREAT Lab! Three students, Chance Dow (graduate student), Maggie Gunnigle (undergraduate), and Brianna Morelli (undergraduate), were award scholarships to attend the 2024 International Center for Responsible Gambling Conference in October 2024, and all three students had a poster accepted for presentation. Congrats to you all!!!
July - There were three notable accomplishments in July! Halle was coauthor on a paper published in Addictive Behaviors, and Adrianna Valencia was coauthor on papers published in Journal of Gambling Studies and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Congrats to both Halle and Adrianna!!!
March - Chance Dow was awarded a $5,000 Research Fellowship from the International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Read more about Chance's research project here. Congrats, Chance!!!
February - Halle Smith published a paper about how individuals expect acute cannabis to affects their gambling experiences and behaviors in the journal, Cannabis. Read the open-access publication here. This publication is Halle's first first-author paper! Congrats, Halle!!!
January - Halle Smith successfully proposed her master's thesis, entitled Financial Harm and Financial Distress Due to Gambling: A Scoping Review. Halle is already making progress on her systematic article search for this project. Congrats, Halle!!!
2023
2023
December - Adrianna Valencia successfully proposed her master's thesis, entitled Does Ethnic Identity Moderate the Association Between Ethnic Discrimination and Gambling Engagement Among Hispanic or Latino/a/x Individuals? We are excited for Adrianna to begin collecting data on this exciting project that spans four universities across the United States. Congrats, Adrianna!!!
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