Lab News

October 2021

Weybright receives funding to support youth participatory action research.

• Dr. Weybright and Extension colleagues received funding from the Washington State Health Care Authority to support youth providers in implementing youth participatory action research.

More publicity for CROP+TR youth research!

• YPAR youth were highlighted in the Sequim Gazette. See story here: https://www.sequimgazette.com/life/x-14/

June 2021 – CROP+TR youth efforts in the news!

• As part of CROP+TR, we are facilitating a youth participatory action research project where we engage youth as community researchers to address opioids within their community. Spokane youth were featured in a KHQ local news story found here.

May 2021 – Congratulations to doctoral student Faith Price on receiving two awards!

• Faith recently was awarded a Minority Travel Award to virtually attend the Society for Prevention Research annual conference in June.
• Faith was awarded the Charles Allen Master’s Thesis award, a WSU Graduate School scholarship.

March 2021 –

Congratulations to student presenters and award winners at WSU Showcase!

Multiple students had presentations accepted at the 2021 Virtual Academic Showcase including:

• 1st Place Winner and Graduate Student Erica Doering – “Can’t you see that I’m getting bored?”: College Student’s Conceptualization of Boredom
• 3rd Place Winner and Graduate Student Elizabeth Purser – “I’ve been flourishing”: The association between flourishing and substance use in college students.
• Graduate Student Faith Price – Marijuana use and American Indian/Alaska Native youth in Washington state.
• Research Proposal Early Career Award Winner and Undergraduate McNair Student April Salmeron-Lauriano – Family Contributors in Adolescent Alcohol Use of Latinx Communities

New Article Alert!

• An article co-authored by Dr. Weybright in collaboration with Extension is out in the Journal of Youth Development. Titled”Using the 4-H Essential Elements to Evaluate Teen Programming,” this article reviews evaluation results from WA State 4-H teens from the perspective of the 4-H Essential Elements and provides implications for future programming. Find the full text here: https://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/21-16-1-FA-3

Weybright presents to WA House Commerce and Gaming Committee

• Dr. Weybright presented to a work session of the House Commerce and Gaming committee along with colleagues from DBHR and UW on the effectiveness of programs to prevent youth access to and use of alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, and vapor products. See video here: https://www.tvw.org/watch/?clientID=9375922947&eventID=2021031341

February 2021 – Weybright’s work on boredom highlighted in Washington State Magazine

• See the full story here: https://magazine.wsu.edu/2021/02/17/this-is-the-most-bored-ive-ever-been-in-my-life/ as well as news outlet clips here: https://www.q13fox.com/video/884209 and here: https://www.kxly.com/wsu-researcher-studies-boredom-during-the-pandemic/.

October 2020 – Weybright part of team awarded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant

• Dr. Weybright is partner with Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar from the University of Washington and a team of WSU Extension faculty to better understand the culture of handgun carrying among rural youth. See UW press release here: https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/09/30/uw-receives-1-5-million-cdc-grant-to-study-handgun-carrying-among-rural-adolescents/

September 2020 –

Weybright Receives Funding from USDA for Opioid Prevention Efforts

• Weybright was awarded $392,862 in funding by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA) for a project titled Universal Prevention Approaches to Addressing Opioid Use: Building Capacity Within Rural Families and Extension Personnel.

Boredom and COVID-19

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  Starting in mid-March, Weybright began collecting data on unique tweets with #COVID19 and “bored” in tweet text. Throughout March, we saw a steady increase in the unique number of mentions likely as social distancing efforts, school closures, and teleworking started. These early tweets generally talked about anticipating (and preventing) boredom and reporting feelings of boredom in self and others who seemed bored. As the weeks progressed, the number of boredom mentions peaked mid-week, but overall mentions began to decrease in April.  By May 19^th, the number of #COVID19 and bored declined to under 50 mentions per day. We suspect early-COVID19 mentions were mostly around anticipatory boredom which never materialized. Read more on Dr. Weybright’s Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/EWeybrightPhD/status/1244032441217515520

July 2020 –

Weybright named Interim Director of Extension Youth and Families Unit.

• For the next year, Dr. Weybright will lead WSU Extension’s Youth and Families Unit. See full story here.

Lab members author blog post on boredom for the Society for Research on Adolescence.

• Dr. Weybright and graduate student Erica Doering discuss how to help adolescents cope with boredom during a summer of COVID-19. Blog post here.

May 2020 – Undergraduate research assistant Anaderi Iniguez recognized at conference.

• Anaderi was recognized at the (now postponed) Society for Research in Human Development conference for Most Outstanding Undergraduate Research. See notice here: http://www.srhdonline.org/srhd-2020.html. Her poster titled “Maximizing the Retention of Nutritional Knowledge and Healthy Behaviors Through the Teen-Teaching Model” evaluated teen outcomes in our YA4-H! program. Congratulations Anaderi!

April 2020 – Weybright featured in story about COVID-19 and boredom.

• Dr. Weybright contributed to story on how COVID-19 relates to boredom and how parents can support their children. Link to story here: https://news.wsu.edu/2020/04/02/covid-19-boredom-boom-brings-new-parenting-challenges/

March 2020 – Graduate student Faith Price successfully defends her Master’s thesis!

March 2020 – Weybright receives the CAHNRS Early Career Excellence award.

• This award acknowledges outstanding contributions in research, teaching and/or extension in any CAHNRS discipline during the early phases of a faculty member’s academic career.

February 2020 – Graduate student Faith Price presents a poster at The Academy for Leisure Sciences annual conference.

• Faith’s poster was titled “A scoping review of outdoor recreation prevention programs serving Indigenous youth”

November 2019 – New paper published on historical and developmental trends in adolescent boredom.

• Press release here: https://news.wsu.edu/2019/11/19/research-shows-boredom-rise-adolescents-especially-girls/

September 2019 – Weybright and team receive $1.1 million grant to address rural opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery.

• Press release here: https://news.wsu.edu/2019/10/23/wsu-college-medicine-cahnrs-secure-1-1-million-grant-combat-rural-opioid-abuse/

August 2019 – Welcome to new graduate students in the lab!

• Erica Doering. Learn more about Erica here: https://hd.wsu.edu/impact-lab-graduate-students-ericadoering/

June 2019 – Weybright receives Susan Barkman award for research and evaluation.

• Dr. Weybright, along with colleagues Dr. Joy Lile and Pam Watson received the 2019 Susan Barkman Award for Research and Evaluation from the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA) for their work on assessing WSU Extension teen programs. This award was presented at the annual NAE4-HA meeting in November.