The focus of the research project is to assist with researching, writing, and presenting the forgotten history of African Americans interred in historic cemeteries.

The Young Women’s Leadership Program (YWLP) is a mentorship program that is designed to teach leadership skills, including decision-making, refusal skills, stress management, problem-solving and emotional regulation, relationship skills, as well as the academic skills needed to successfully complete high school and prepare for post-secondary education.

Our research focuses on examining the effects of stress (e.g., poverty, marital aggression) on adolescents’ sleep patterns, mental and physical health, physiological regulation and cognitive functioning.

he Social Development Lab examines the peer relationships of children and adolescents with a focus on how those relationships influence socioemotional health and school adjustment. Currently, we are conducting the Friendship Hero Project, an evaluation of a clinical intervention to increase positive bystander behavior (i.e., defending) in response to bullying.

In the ADM project we are looking at teenager risky and safe decision making in different situations. We use behavioral, brain imaging, and questionnaire data collection methods to determine how different situations affect teens’ brain activity, risky decision making, and risky behaviors like alcohol use.

We evaluate how therapists-in-training effectively offer services to clients who receive relationship therapy at our on-campus clinic. We want to make sure that our services to all clients are practical and beneficial. We need undergraduate team members who enter and clean data, who score and post client assessment reports for therapeutic review. Eventually, you can also gain the ability to audit case files, code therapy sessions, and role-play with developing therapists.

RESTORE stands for “Research and Education with Sex Trafficking Survivors on Resilience and Empowerment.” This team conducts quantitative and qualitative research on the unique needs and experiences of sex trafficking survivors to improve the quality of person-centered recovery resources available to survivors and their family members.

Dr. Samek’s lab is currently focused on collecting data from first- and second- year college students. We collect data on their substance use, personality, family, peer, and romantic relationships, as well as other related topics.

Parenting support lives in the digital world, and this Extension Publications Lab is about exploring how to communicate in the digital world to support parenting and caregivers. I support early childhood to middle childhood development, and I’m working to transform, update and transition communications material and methods for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES). You will, depending on whether you enroll as a service learning (HDFS 3930) or directed study (HDFS 4980) be updating publications content, visuals, or platform, or developing new content. We will use knowledge translation and public health models as frameworks for designing material.

The Auburn University Early Learning Center is an accredited laboratory preschool serving children ages 3, 4 and 5 years old in half day sessions. Children attend from 8:30-11:30 or from 12:30-3:30. The center, begun in 1926, has been continuously accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children since 1986.