Recent Media
May 2023
Congrats to Aisha for graduating from USF with a BA in Psychology along with a minor in Public Service and Community Engagement! She will be working at the National Alliance on Mental Illness in San Francisco as a Resource Coordinator to help support programs across the organization and assist in connecting members of our communities with mental health resources and services.
May 2023
Congratulations to Quyen who just earned her Ph.D. in Psychology! Her dissertation is titled, "Intimate partner violence among sexual minority adults in consensual non-monogamous relationships." Quyen will be moving on to Northwestern University for her postdoctoral fellowship at the Family Institute.
May 2023
Aisha, Janvi, and Rachel present the COVID-19 anti-Asian racism data at the Human Behavior Research Conference at the University of San Francisco.
April 2023
Aisha, Janvi, and Rachel present the COVID anti-Asian racism data at the Human Behavior Research Conference at the University of San Francisco. Their presentation won 2nd place!
April 2023
Emily delivers her first conference research talk on a mixed methods study examining the influences of ethnic identity and internalized racism on experiences of COVID anti-Asian racism at the 103rd Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association Conference in Riverside, CA.
April 2023
Rachel presents qualitative findings about vicarious experiences of COVID-19 anti-Asian racism at the Diversifying Clinical Psychology virtual conference. Her poster was rated in the top 10% of accepted abstracts and her presentation won 2nd place!
April 2023
Aisha presents at the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP) Diversifying Clinical Psychology Conference. She discusses qualitative findings on anti-Asian racism during COVID-19 and mental health outcomes along with the influences of ethnic identity and internalized racism.
February 2023
Dr. Yang presents with USF colleagues on Anti-Racist Pedagogies from the Moment to Movement series at the Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Technology Services Discern, Dream, Design - 3D Symposium.
November 2022
Quyen chairs a symposium titled, "Understanding the experiences, fears, and effects of discrimination among Asian Americans during COVID-19", and presents data from our mixed-methods COVID
project at ABCT, while Dr. Yang serves as discussant.
May 2022
Dr. Yang was invited to speak at the Center for Cross Cultural Research (CCCR) at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. She also led a methods workshop titled "Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches in mixed methods research" for researchers and trainees at CCCR.
April 2022
Sally presents preliminary data from our labor-based grading contract project at the 2022 Western Psychological Association conference
February 2022
The Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) features Quyen in a Researcher's Spotlight
January 2022
Emily presents our qualitative media analysis paper at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. Poster presentation linked here.
December 2021
Dr. Yang's preliminary RCT dissertation paper receives the honor of being one of the top ten most downloaded AIDS Care articles in 2021.
June 2021
Quyen receives funding from Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapies and is featured in this article!
March 2021
Dr. Yang was interviewed by PsychCentral about the impact of racism on mental health of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during COVID, "Anti-Asian Racism Takes Devastating Toll on Community".
December 2020
Participating in USF Special Events with keynote address by Gopi Kallayil, "The 2020 Vision on Being a Happy Human"
December 2020
Participating in USF Special Events with keynote address by Gopi Kallayil, "The 2020 Vision on Being a Happy Human"
December 2020
Dr. Yang participates in the USF Special Events series with keynote address by Gopi Kallayil, "The 2020 Vision on Being a Happy Human".
December 2020
Participating in USF Special Events with keynote address by Gopi Kallayil, "The 2020 Vision on Being a Happy Human"
December 2020
Participating in USF Special Events with keynote address by Gopi Kallayil, "The 2020 Vision on Being a Happy Human"
July 2020
The UW Alumni Association interviews Dr. Yang in
“Alumni who give back”.
May 2020
Dr. Yang gives a talk hosted by the Center for Research, Artistic and Scholarly Excellence, discussing Psychological Impacts of COVID-19: Understanding and Emerging from Crisis.
