Graduate Student, Biobehavioral Health
Ph.D. expected May 2024
Katja Waldron received her M.S. in biobehavioral health at Penn State and B.S. in psychology from the University of Washington. She is currently funded on an F31 NIAAA predoctoral fellowship for her dissertation research examining daily predictors of Latinx college student drinking. Katja is concurrently enrolled in the Biobehavioral Health Ph.D. program and Counselor Education M.Ed. program at Penn State. Her research and clinical work focuses on the prevention of heavy drinking and its consequences (e.g., assaults, blackouts, drunk driving) among adolescents and young adults of diverse backgrounds.
Awards:
- 2021-2024, F31 Predoctoral Fellowship, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Examining associations between minority-related stressors and alcohol use among Latinx college students
- 2020-2021, T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- 2020-2022, Hintz Graduate Education Enhancement Fellowship Award, Biobehavioral Health Department, Penn State University
- 2021-2022, Biobehavioral Health Dissertation Research Award, Biobehavioral Health Department, Penn State University
- 2021, Biobehavioral Health Graduate Student Scientific Achievement Award, Biobehavioral Health Department, Penn State University
- 2020-2022, Society for Prevention Research Early Career Prevention Network Travel Award
- 2019-2022, Research Society on Alcoholism Student Merit Award
- 2020-2022, Student Travel Award, Prevention Research Center, Penn State University
- 2019-2022, Student Travel Award, Biobehavioral Health Department, Penn State University
- 2018-2019, The Pennsylvania State University Fund for Excellence in Graduate Recruitment Award
Selected Publications:
Waldron, K. A., Mallett, K., Turrisi, R., Reavy, R., Wolfe, E., & Plisiewicz, A. (2021). Motivations to combine alcohol and nicotine in college students: A validation of the Alcohol and Nicotine Motives Scale. Addictive Behaviors, 112, 106645. PMCID: PMC7572739 [PubMed]
Waldron, K. A., Turrisi, R. J., Mallett, K. A., & Romano, E. (2021). Examining parental permissiveness toward drinking and perceived ethnic discrimination as risk factors for drinking outcomes among Latinx college students. Addictive Behaviors, 118, 106900. PMCID: PMC8026724 [PubMed]
Selected Presentations:
Waldron, K. A., Glenn, S. D., Ko, S., Kornack, E., Nolte, N., Turrisi, R. J., & Mallett, K. A. (2022, June). Comparing single vs. dual parent households on a brief parent-based drinking intervention for adolescents. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Orlando, FL.
Waldron, K. A., Glenn, S. D., Turrisi, R. J., & Mallett, K. A. (2022, May). Longitudinal effects of a parent-based intervention on risky drinking outcomes among Latinx adolescents. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Seattle, WA.
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