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Melissa Blank
Associate Professor, Psychology

Team Members

Current Graduate Students

Ashley Douglas (3rd Year)

Ashley earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Central Missouri in 2018. She is currently preparing her thesis for defense.

Maggie Childers (2nd Year)

Maggie earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Wheeling Jesuit University in 2019. She is currently preparing her thesis for proposal.

Andrea Milstred (1st Year)

Andrea earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (2017), and her Master of Science in Psychological Science (2019), from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is currently planning her thesis project.

Graduate Student Alumni

Ilana Haliwa, M.P.H., M.S. (2019)

Ilana

Ilana earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012, and her Masters in Public Health from Nova Southeastern University in 2016. She completed her thesis project (The Role of Flavors in Electronic Cigarette Abuse Liability in Tobacco-Naïve Young Adults) in the fall of 2019.

Nicholas Felicione, Ph.D. (2019)

Nick TRS Conference

Nick completed his thesis (Comparison of Methods for Measuring Electronic Cigarette Puff Topography) in 2016 and his dissertation (Short-Term Abstinence Effects in Experienced Electronic Cigarette Users) in 2019. He is now a post-doctoral fellow at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center working with Dr. Rich O'Connor.

Jenny Ozga, Ph.D. (2019)

Jenny

Jenny graduated from the Behavior Analysis program under the direction of Dr. Karen Anderson, and was an affiliate member of our laboratory during her tenure in the program. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the WVU Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry working with Dr. Robin Pollini. Currently, Jenny is a Lead Research Associate within the Tobacco Studies Sector of the Behavioral Health and Health Policy Practice at Westat.

Colleen Warren, M.S. (2018)

  Colleen Warren

Colleen completed her thesis project (Measurement Methods of Dual Tobacco Use Behaviors: Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco) in the summer of 2019. She is now a College Admissions Counselor and Adjunct Professor at New River Community & Technical College in Beckley, WV.