Announcements

2024

Spring 2024

• Cass was selected for the Aspen Ideas: Health Festival fellowship through the Aspen Institute.
• Cass presented a poster, titled "Mindfulness Moderates the Relation Between Historical Trauma Thought Frequency and Lifetime Substance Use among American Indian/Alaska Native Peoples" at the 2024 Society for Prevention Research conference in Washington D.C.
• Kat presented a poster, titled "Exploring the Acceptability and Preferences of the Delivery of Alcohol Use Interventions among Indigenous College Students" at the 2024 Society for Prevention Research conference in Washington D.C. Additionally, Kat is enjoying her training in the NIGMS-funded Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (G-RISE) T32 at OSU.
• Kat launched data collection for a research study, titled "Cognition and Resilience in Relation to Negative Life Events."
• Cass presented a workshop, titled "Disrupting Academic Gaslighting: Strategies for Building Resilience and Cultivating Joy in Academic Life" with colleagues at the 2024 Resilience Conference in Nashville, TN.
• Cass gave a presentation titled, "Community Based Participatory Research: The Importance of Context in Research" for the 2024 Student Diversity Committee's Lunch and Learn series.
• Cass was selected for the Remember the Ten Run Scholarship!

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2023

Fall 2023

• Alex successfully proposed her disssertation, titled "How does parent asthma management self-efficacyrelate to quality of life among parents among parents of children with asthma
  during the COVID-19 pandemic"! She also published her first lead-author manuscript for publication, titled, "The moderating role of health status on the association between depressive symptoms and cannabis vaping" in the journal of Cannabis. Additionally, Alex submitted an abstract to the 2024 Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC).
• Cass successfully proposed their master's thesis, titled "Mindfulness as a Potential Moderator Between the Historical Trauma Response and Substance Use Among American Indian Young Adults." They also published their first lead-author manuscript for publication, titled, "Resilience and Low Substance Use Among Indigenous College Students from a Sexual Assault Prevention Study" in the journal of Adversity and Resilience Science. Additionally, Cass led a CBPR workshop at the 2023 Native Children's Research Exchange (NCRE) Conference in Denver, CO.
• Kat presented a poster, titled "Cultural Acceptability of Alcohol Use Interventions among Indigenous College Students" at the 2023 Native Children's Research Exchange (NCRE) Conference in Denver, CO. She also submitted an abstract to the 2024 Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Conference. Additionally, Kat is enjoying her training in the  NIGMS-funded Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (G-RISE) T32 at OSU.
• Kendall will be graduating with her Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from OSU in Fall 2023 after working in the COLE Lab for 1.5 years - we are sad to see her go but happy for her next adventure!

Spring 2023

• At the Society of Pediatric Annual Conference, Alex presented her poster "Parental Gender Moderates the Relation Between Parent Asthma Managment Self-Efficacy and Quality of Life Among Parents of Children with Asthma During COVID-19" and she also completed her clinical comprehensive exam!
• Kat received an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship as part of Oklahoma State University’s G-RISE program!
• Cass presented research from our Self Defense for Indigenous Peoples (SDIP) study at ResilienceCon in Nashville, TN!
• Cass and Alex were selected for the Remember the Ten Run Scholarship!
• Kendall was accepted into the Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Student Development Program for Summer 2023!
• Grace was accepted into OSU's Clinical Psychology Ph.D Program and will continue researching substance use in minority populations in Dr. Leffingwell's lab!

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2022

Fall 2022

• Oklahoma State University professor studies health inequities in Indigenous populations podcast aired on KOSU December 15, 2022.
• CBPR key to developing culturally-relevant alcohol interventions among Native communities was published on the Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network website.
• At the NCRE conference, Dr. Cole presented “A Path Toward Health Equity for American Indian Communities: A Psychological Perspective,” Kat was selected as an NCRE star and presented a poster, and Cass was selected as a NCRE Fellow, with a kick-off event in November!
• Changing the Narrative article was published in the October issue of OSU Research Matters (pages 40-41).
• Abby has turned in her application for PA school!
• Kendall selected as Psychology department’s Student of the Month for December!
• Alex will be presenting at SPP (Society of Pediatrics Psychology)
• Dr. Cole was selected to receive the “Diverse Teaching Award” and the “Diversity Committee Member Award”
• Susie was accepted as a trainee into the Pilot and Feasibility Program, funded by the Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research!
• At the 2022 Native Children's Research Exchange Conference (NCRE), Kat presented her poster "Variation in PTSD symptoms and treatment utilization among diverse populations" and received the NCRE Stars Support for Students and Early Career Scholars!

Spring 2022

• Blayne, Reagan, and Kaitlyn participated in the 2022 OSU Undergraduate Symposium!
• In collaboration with Dr. Wingate's lab and Dr. Anderson's lab, Cass and Dr. Cole presented at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) in January 2022.
• Reagan and Kaitlyn each submitted their graduate school applications.

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2021

November 2021

• Cassidy successfully proposed their master's thesis.

October 2021

• Hayley has turned in her application for Pharmacy school!

September 2021

• Marilysis Saldivar was selected as the OSU Psychology Department's Student of the Month for April 2022 (announced in September 2021).
• We now have a Twitter page! Our Twitter handle is @ColeOSU.

June 2021

August 5, 2021—COVID-19 variant: 'Cocktail for disaster' article published on the Indian Country Today website.

 

June 14, 2021—Dr. Ashley Cole - COVID in BIPOC Communities What's Happening? Now What?—Dr. Ashley B. Cole is an enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. Dr. Cole earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University, and she is an affiliate of the Health Promotion Research Center and the Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Cole’s research examines health inequities and health behaviors among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.

 

June 08, 2021—COVID in BIPOC Communities: What's Happening? Now What?—Watch this Talking Race & Kids conversation about some of the physical and, especially, the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color and communities. Some 15 months in, what underreported challenges has COVID fueled in vulnerable communities of color? How are the children in those communities faring? How do we get to a new, healthier “normal”?

 

March 16, 2021—Cole, A. B. (2021, February). Smartphone-Based Tobacco Cessation Interventions with American Indians in Oklahoma. Invited presentation to the National Indian Health Board’s Commercial Tobacco Cessation Learning Community Webinar Series (virtual). The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) hosts a Commercial Tobacco Cessation Learning Community with resources and activities for learning, networking, and information sharing related to commercial tobacco cessation in Tribal communities. Activities may include webinars and events at NIHB's Tribal Public Health Summit. Watch the webinar recordings.