Psychology Internships and Juvenile Justice

Students training to become psychologists must complete a doctoral internship in order to get licensed and enter the workforce. Shortages in available internship positions, however, can not only delay licensure, but ultimately impede the expansion of the behavioral...

Women and Forced Migration

Karin Wachter is a 2016 recipient of our Moore Fellowship, a $20,000 award for doctoral students at UT Austin in support of research on the human experience of crises. Wachter’s dissertation, titled “Women’s Social Support in War, Displacement, and Post-Resettlement,”...

Deportation Anxiety for Today’s Young Adults

“DACA youth are in between worrying about their parents, worrying about themselves, and worrying about their little brothers and sisters,” says Dr. Luis Zayas. Congress is set to take action on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on March 5,...