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What's Happening in 2025...

Congratulations, DR. Qi!

Baiyu successfully completed her dissertation defense!

ARHE - 2025

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

CEDAR Lab members Jennifer & Baiyu attended the International Conference on Eating Disorders with CEDAR lab PI Dr. Melissa Munn-Chernoff.

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

CFAS Student Research Showcase:

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

McKenzie Lectureship Series:

Addiction, Recovery, & 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 04/03 & 04/04.

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

Yohan Cho presented his findings on Family Functioning, Addictive Behaviors, and Food Addiction

Trinity's research explored Disordered Eating Patterns in Collegiate Recovery Populations

Trinity's poster presentation earned her 2nd place!

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

Collaborator and ADRS student, Alisha Campbell presented her research: 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 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 TTU 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