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What's Happening in 2025...

Congratulations, Dr. Baiyu Qi!

Baiyu successfully completed her dissertation defense!

ARHE 2025 - New Orleans

Trinity traveled to New Orleans with Dr. Munn-Chernoff to present at the Association of Recovery in Higher Education Conference.

Laissez les bon temp rouler! Great job, Trinity!

ICED 2025 - San Antonio

Jennifer and Baiyu attended the International Conference on Eating Disorders with Dr. Melissa Munn-Chernoff.

There, they supported collaborator Alex Shrode, RD in her presentation on the prevalence of eating disorders in Collegiate Recovery Programs.

Community, Family, and Addiction Sciences (CFAS) Student Research Showcase

CEDAR Lab graduate students Yohan and Baiyu presented their research at the CFAS Student Research Showcase.

McKenzie Lectureship Series:

Addiction, Recovery, and Families

The CEDAR Lab and many of our collaborators from the Addictive Disorders and Recovery Studies (ADRS) program and the Center for Students in Addiction Recovery presented research at the McKenzie Lectureship Series on April 3rd and 4th.

CEDAR Lab members, Yohan Cho and Trinity Criner, presented their research.

Yohan presented his findings on family functioning, addictive behaviors, and food addiction.

Trinity's research explored disordered eating symptoms in Collegiate Recovery Programs.

Trinity's poster presentation earned her 2nd place!

Dr. Melissa Munn-Chernoff and collaborator Alex Shrode presented data on and discussed clinical implications of disordered eating, recovery, and mental health in Collegiate Recovery Programs.

Collaborator and ADRS student, Alisha Campbell, presented her research titled "Parents' Readiness to Change Among Patients in Treatment for a Substance Use Disorder". She won first place for her presentation!

CEDAR Lab students Kaitlin Lutz and Trinity Criner presented at the Texas Tech University Undergraduate Research Conference.

Undergraduate Research Conference 2025

Exciting things are happening for lab member, Trinity Criner. She has been hard at work!

Trinity was accepted to the Mortar Board - Forum Chapter at Texas Tech University. Mortar Board is a nationwide senior honors society, upholding the values of scholarship, leadership, and service. To be selected as a member is to be recognized as one of the top 0.2% of seniors at Texas Tech.

She will also be presenting her CEDAR lab project poster at the 2025 Texas Tech University Undergraduate Research Conference. Session: D - Wed. April 2, 1:00 PM, TTU Museum Sculpture Garden.

Click the link for more info:

https://www.depts.ttu.edu/true/urc/2025/directory/abstract.php?id=D088088

2024

We received the inaugural Sarah Kyle Anorexia Nervosa Research Foundation (SKANRF) grant to support our research on DNA methylation in anorexia nervosa!

Latest Update (December 2, 2024)

Teams from Texas Tech University (CEDAR Lab), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the first-ever Phase 1 grant!

Check out the full story by clicking the link below.

SKANRF Announces Funding for Groundbreaking Anorexia Nervosa Research