Lab News

June 2022 - Shelby Stewart, Ph.D., defended her dissertation.

March 2021 - Melanie Roys, M.A. accepts a post-doc at the Durham VA.

Melanie Roys has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Durham VA Medical Center. She will start her position once she completes her Predoctoral Internship at the Durham VA Medical Center. She will soon defend her doctoral dissertation entitled, The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation and Substance Use Treatment Attrition.

March 2021 - Shelby Stewart, M.A. matches at Orlando VA for her clinical internship. 

Shelby Stewart, M.A. will start her Predoctoral Internship at the Orlando VA Medical Center in June 2021. She will continue work on her doctoral dissertation entitled, Efficacy of a Brief E-Cigarette and Screening and Intervention for College Students: A Pilot Study.

August 2020 - Aaron F. Waters, Ph.D., defended his dissertation.

Dissertation Title: Readiness to change and smoking expectancies among adult male substance users currently in substance use treatment

Dr. Waters completed his pre-doctoral internship at the VA Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo, NY. He is currently completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center in Los Angeles, CA with an emphasis in Interprofessional Integrative Health. His current research interests include identifying barriers to smoking cessation among at-risk populations.

September 2020 - The Smoking and Substance Use Clinical Research Lab Announces New Honor's Thesis Project!

Maggie Duplantier is a senior undergraduate psychology student from Braithwaite, Louisiana. She is currently a research assistant in the lab and has proposed her Honor's Thesis Project through the Ogden Honor’s College at LSU. Her project is focused on a behavioral economics approach to e-cigarette dependency in college students. Specifically, she plans on modifying the Cigarette Purchase Task (Jacobs & Bickel, 1999; MacKillop et al., 2008) for electronic cigarettes. We are so excited to see where this research takes her and are honored for her to be a part of the lab! 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2020 - College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) 2020 Virtual Conference!

Dr. Copeland presented a talk titled, "Menopause, Nicotine Dependence, and Smoking Cessation" at CPDD June 23, 2020. This talk was in a symposium that she co-chaired on Aging and Addiction, which had over 100 "virtual" attendees.

Life Course and Aging Center (LCAC) annual conference!

Dr. Copeland and collaborators Dr. Brown and Dr. Spurlock from the Southern University School of Nursing at the Life Course and Aging Center (LCAC) annual conference March 15, 2019. Photo: Dr. Sandra Brown (left), Dr. Amy Copeland (middle), and Dr. Wanda Spurlock (right).

New Lab members!

Please welcome Chynna Dubuclet and Morgan Offord to the LSU Smoking and Substance Abuse Research Lab! Chynna and Morgan will be visiting for the month of June from Xavier University and Spelman College (respectively) as part of the 2018 Predoctoral Scholars Institute (PDSI) program.

The PDSI is a competitive and intensive 4-week program that prepares undergraduate students for future doctoral level studies. During the summer Chynna and Morgan worked on original research projects under the mentorship of Dr. Copeland. Chynna's study looked at associations between post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder among college students. Morgan's study looked at substance use as a predictor of suicidal ideation among women. Congratulations scholars!