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Lab Director
Lab Director
Jennifer S Silk, PhD
Jennifer Silk joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 2005 and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on factors involved in the etiology and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents.
FEND News
2023 - Check out this podcast on Drs. Silk and James' paper showing a beneficial side to texting and videochat for teen connectedness & mental health during COVID.
2023 - Congratulation to graduate student Melanie Grad-Freilich for being awarded an NIH-funded Behavioral Brain Research Training Program (B2) Fellowship from the Pitt/CMU Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition!
2022 - Mary Woody was awarded a University of Pittsburgh Innovation Challenge (PInCh) Award. Congrats, Mary!