Charlotte Carp, UH College of Education program director and a board-certified behavior analyst, talks about how the University of Houston is expanding its behavioral health offerings this fall to provide students with comprehensive training in a high-demand field of Applied Behavior Analysis with the goal of better serving the community.

Navigating graduate school can be challenging, but school psychology Ph.D. students Georgina Sakyi and Mariana Vázquez have amassed invaluable insights after helping author the Resource Guide for Psychology Graduate Students of Color (third edition), a publication from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students. Sakyi and Vázquez, who both earned master’s degrees in counseling from the University of Houston College of Education, said working on the resource guide informed their own doctoral journeys while providing an opportunity to pass on advice to future students.

The annual PHLS Research Symposium allows undergraduate and graduate students to practice presenting their research findings as they would at a professional academic conference. “Student research is an incredibly important aspect of our university and departmental missions,” said doctoral student Helen Ullrich, who co-chaired the symposium. “ It’s a mechanism by which we can unearth inequities and inform interventions to promote a more just and healthy society.”