Student Members in the lab

The BAR Lab exists for the doctoral, master's and undergraduate students who seek to learn how to research college student drinking behaviors, harm reduction and motivational interviewing.  See the individual pages to learn about BAR Lab student members and their research!

Student Grants and Awards

2021    Skyler Hoover. Mississippi INBRE Lead Outreach Scholars (MILOS) Award. $2,000.

2021    Hallie Jordan. Research Poster Award. Society for Addiction Psychology (APA Division 50).

2020. Tatum Freeman. Excellence in Research Award. University of Southern Mississippi Honors College.

2020. Ann Brice Taylor. Selected to be a Mississippi INBRE Outreach Scholar. $2000.

2020. Hallie Jordan. Selected for induction University of Southern Mississippi Graduate School Hall of Fame.

2019. Tatum Freeman. Eagle Spur Grant. University of Southern Mississippi Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research. $1,360.

2019. Hallie Jordan. USM Graduate Competitive Travel Award. $500

2019. Tatum Freeman. Research Grant USM Honors College. $300

2019. Tatum Freeman. Top Scholar at the Mississippi INBRE symposium. Full funding to present at the 2019 Southeast Regional IDeA Conference.

2019. Tatum Freeman. Selected to be a Mississippi INBRE Outreach Scholar. $2000.

2019. Promise Lemoine. College life alcohol beliefs moderate the relationships between protective behavioral strategies and alcohol outcomes. USM
Undergraduate Research Symposium – 1st place Behavioral Sciences. $500

2019: Tatum Freeman. Coping styles, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and alcohol outcomes in college students. USM Undergraduate Research Symposium – 3rd  place Behavioral Sciences. $300

2019: Hallie Jordan. Post-traumatic stress and marijuana outcomes: The mediating role of marijuana protective behavioral strategies. Third place poster at the University of Southern Mississippi Graduate Research Symposium. $150

2019: Robert Whitley. Social and individual-level identities and college male
alcohol use behaviors: Examining the utility of protective behavioral strategies. USM Committee on Services and Resources for Women Greene Essay Award.

2019: Tiara Watson. Perfectionism and alcohol outcomes in college students: 
The moderating role of alcohol protective behavioral strategies. Psi Chi Regional Research Award. $300

2019: Tatum Freeman. PTSD symptoms and alcohol outcomes: The mediating
role of positive and negative coping styles. USM Honors College Research Grant. $250.

2019: Nakita Davis. Selected to McNair Scholars Program. University of Southern
Mississippi.

2018: Tiara Watson. Perfectionism and alcohol outcomes in college students: 
The moderating role of alcohol protective behavioral strategies. USM Eagle Wings Travel Grant. $1,485.

2018: Christine Miller. Protective behavioral strategies and alcohol outcomes.  
The moderating effects of drinking refusal self-efficacy and gender. USM  Graduate Competitive Travel Award. $500

2018: Hallie Jordan. Posttraumatic stress and hazardous drinking in college students: The moderating role of alcohol protective behavioral strategies. USM Graduate Competitive Travel Award.

2018: Tiara Watson. Adaptive and Maladaptive Perfectionism Predict Hazardous and Safe Drinking Behaviors in High-Achieving College Students. USM
Undergraduate Research Symposium – 1st place Behavioral Sciences.

2018:Hallie Jordan. Posttraumatic stress and hazardous drinking in college students: The moderating role of alcohol protective behavioral strategies. Second place poster at the University of  Southern Mississippi Graduate Research Symposium.

2017: Mallorie Carroll. Does illicit drug use impact the experience of alcohol-related consequences in college students? Second place poster at the University of Southern Mississippi Graduate Research Symposium.

2017: Lauren Gardner. Exploring the moderating effects of drinking context on the
relationship harmful drinking and risky sex among college women. First place at
the Mississippi Honors Conference.

2016: Mallorie Carroll. The moderating role of positive consequences between social anxiety and negative consequences in a sample of hazardous drinking college students. Student Merit Award – Research Society on Alcoholism funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

2016: Lauren Gardner. Exploring the moderating effects of drinking context on the
relationship harmful drinking and risky sex among college women.
                        Psi Chi Regional Research Award.
                        USM Undergraduate Research Symposium – 2nd place Behavioral
                        Sciences.

2016: Danielle Cottonham. Psychological distress and racial and sexual discrimination as predictors of risky and safe alcohol and sex behaviors among African American college women. Research Grant awarded by the University of Southern Mississippi Committee on Services and Resources for Women. $1000.

2016    Danielle Cottenham. Alcohol-related sex expectancies and Risky Sex among African American Female College Drinkers. Graduate Student Research on Minorities award, Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity (Southeastern Psychological Association).

2015: Kray Scully. Examining the links between residence status and alcohol consumption, negative alcohol-related consequences, and protective strategy use in college students.
                        University of Southern Mississippi Undergraduate Research   
                        Symposium First Place Paper in Behavioral Science.
                        University of Southern Mississippi Undergraduate Research 
                        Symposium Best Eagle SPUR Paper.

2015: Ryan Ebersole. Protective behavioral strategies as a moderator of drinking consequences for LGB college students. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism APA Travel Award. (research conducted while at USM).

2014: Kayla Moorer. Alcohol use, safe drinking behaviors, risky sexual behavior, sexual victimization, and sex-related alcohol experiences among college women. Research Grant awarded by the University of Southern Mississippi Committee on Services and Resources for Women. $1,000

2013: Kray Scully. Examining the links between residence status and alcohol consumption, negative alcohol-related consequences, and protective strategy use in college students. Eagle SPUR Grant. The University of Southern Mississippi. $1000

2013: Kayla Moorer. Alcohol consumption and unwanted sexual experiences in college females: The mediating role of protective behavioral strategies. Graduate Student Research on Minorities and Women award, sponsored by the Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity (Southeastern Psychological Association).

2010: Jeremy Noble. Protective behavioral strategies and the relationship with negative alcohol consequences among college athletes. National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism APA Travel Award.