Lauren Owen (Sample only, not accurate for Lauren)

Division of Social Sciences 

University of California, Santa Cruz 

Email: laurenow@ucsc.edu 

Education  

Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychology, Major Area: Developmental Psychology Dissertation: Substance Use and Psychological and Physiological Responses to Stress Dissertation Committee Co-Chairs: Dr. Andrew Fuligni & Dr. Theodore Robles Minor Areas: Health Psychology, Quantitative Psychology 

Master of Arts in Psychology 

University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, July 2016- February 2022 

Bachelor of Science with highest honors in Psychology and in Chemistry with distinction Honors Thesis: Arab American Identity and Ethnic Name Bias 

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Who

Minor: Biology 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Chapel Hill, NC, August 2012-May 2016

Professional Experience  

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Global and Community Health Program Affiliate University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, July 2023-Present 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Prevention and Methodology Training Program (NIDA-funded T32) The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, March 2022-June 2023 

Research Support  

March 2022-June 2023 NIDA T32 Prevention and Methodology Training Program  Postdoctoral Fellow 

August 2020-February 2022 NIDA Ruth Kirschstein Institutional NRSA F31DA051181-02  ($37,292/year) 

July 2020-June 2021 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship ($20,000) October 2019-June 2020 UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Award ($20,000) May 2020 UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship ($8,000) May 2020 UCLA Nancy M. Biram Research Fund in Life Sciences  ($6,000) 

November 2019, November 2018 UC Adolescence Consortium Seed Grant Recipient  ($10,000/award) 

November 2019 Dr. Kayal Fund for Arab American Research ($1,500) 

June 2018-September 2018, June 2018-September 2017 

UCLA Graduate Student Research Mentorship Award ($6,000/award) 

May 2015-May 2016 UNC William and Ida Taylor Research Fellow ($5,000)

Research Interests  

The effects of social inequality on health and health behaviors, particularly substance use, in  adolescents and young adults of diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. 

Honors and Awards  

May 2023 Society for Prevention Research Early Career Prevention  Scientist Training & Mentoring Award 

September 2022 American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African  Psychological Association Outstanding Paper Award 

September 2022 Prevention Science Early Career Reviewer 

December 2020 American Psychosomatic Society Best Citation Poster Award June 2019 UCLA Shepherd Ivory Franz Distinguished Teaching Award April 2018 Society for Research on Adolescence Junior Mentor September 2016-June 2017 UCLA Alumni Fellow 

May 2016 UNC McHale Award for Outstanding Psychology Research May 2016 UNC Carolina Research Scholar 

May 2016 UNC Buckley Public Service Scholar 

August 2012-May 2016 UNC Carolina Covenant Scholar 

August 2012-May 2016 UNC Member of Honors Carolina 

January 2013-May 2016 UNC Dean’s List 

December 2015 UNC Karen M Gil Intern 

December 2013 Global Health Fellows Program II Grant Recipient 

Publications  

*Notes co-first authorship. Notes undergraduate students. 

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

1. Owen, L., Irwin, M. R., & Fuligni, A. J. (In Press). Family meals are related to lower substance  use among female adolescents. Family Process. 

2. Owen, L., Bower, J. E., Irwin, M. R., & Fuligni, A. J. (In Press). Associations between  emotional reactivity to stress and adolescent substance use: Differences by sex and valence. Stress  & Health

3. Chiang, S. C., Owen, L., Bai, S., & Linden-Carmichael, N. A. (in press). Age-varying association  between discrimination, childhood family support, and substance use disorders among Latin  American immigrants in the US. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 

4. Owen, L. & Singh, A.(In Press). Providing emotional support and daily emotional well-being  among undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Social & Personal  Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241234823 

Under Review 

1. Owen, L., & Fosco, G. M. (Invited Resubmission). Positive well-being and dampened emotional  reactivity to daily family conflict and family cohesion. 

In Preparation 

1. Owen, L. Greater civic attitudes and behaviors were related to better well-being during the  transition to remote instruction.  

Presentations  

1. Perry, K. J., Ivanova, M., Masum, M., Owen, L., Richards, V. L, & Hinds, J. T. (accepted) State  inequality exacerbates the impact of discrimination on smoking for transgender adults. Poster  presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco at Edinburgh, Scotland.