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Doctoral student wins two research awards

Katherine Raczynski, a graduate student in educational psychology, received two awards for her research at the recent American Psychological Association convention.

Raczynski, a doctoral student in the College of Education’s Research, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics Program, received the Society of Counseling Psychology Prevention section’s Graduate Student Prevention Research Award and the Research Proposal Award.

The awards recognize outstanding research by a graduate student and provide funds to pursue her research in the future.

Raczynski has directed the GREAT Schools and Families Project, served as an interventionist with the school violence reduction program, supervised bully prevention projects and is currently the project director for the Healthy Teens Project in UGA’s College of Public Health.