Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Katie Burkhouse from Ridgeway, PA has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Katie Burkhouse focuses her research on gaining a more fine-grained understanding of the factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of depression in youth. Her nominator, who notes that he strongly recruited her to work in his research group, calls her "question focused" rather than "method focused," and writes that she already has an impressive start to her career with two, first-authored publications in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, and two more under review. She is also an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Biological Nursing. She has presented at more than a dozen symposia and poster presentations, and garnered a scholarship to participate in the 2013 National Institute of Mental Health Funded ERP Boot Camp at the University of California-Davis. She willingly teaches others about pupillometry – using pupil dilation as an index of emotion processing – and is a highly sought-out collaborator.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.