Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Practicing Avoiding Substance Use and Driving
January 28, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, prevention professionals, and community [...]
iRT Announces Collaboration with the Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center
January 22, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that it has begun a collaboration with the Southeast Prevention Technology [...]
Journal of Health Communication Publishes the Impacts of Media Aware on Young Adults’ Sexual Health Cognitions
January 16, 2025, Durham, NC – The Journal of Health Communication recently published an article detailing findings from an evaluation of iRT’s [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Prevent Opioid Use and Driving
October 15, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, prevention professionals, [...]
iRT Researcher Offers Workshops to Empower Parents to Practice Media Literacy Strategies with Their Children
October 07, 2024, Durham, NC – Research has shown that tweens and teens make healthier decisions when their parents have [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Plan to Avoid Driving High
September 27, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, prevention professionals, [...]
iRT’s research on media literacy and adolescent sexual health is highlighted in a chapter in the forthcoming book, Teens, Sex, and Media Effects
September 27, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT’s researchers have a wealth of expertise in media literacy education and sexual health [...]
Plan My Ride Could Protect Young People from Increased Risk of Unsafe Driving Around the Holidays
December 11, 2025, Durham, NC – At the end of the year, drivers are at a higher risk for unsafe driving. The National Highway [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Practicing Avoiding Substance Use and Driving
January 28, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, [...]
iRT Announces Collaboration with the Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center
January 22, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that it has begun a collaboration with [...]
Journal of Health Communication Publishes the Impacts of Media Aware on Young Adults’ Sexual Health Cognitions
January 16, 2025, Durham, NC – The Journal of Health Communication recently published an article detailing findings from [...]
Recent Research Findings on the Previous Sex Education Experiences of Community College Students
February 21, 2024, Durham, NC – Though community college students make up nearly half of all U.S. undergraduate students, they are often overlooked by sexual [...]
iRT President Presents at the 2024 National Mentoring Summit
February 13, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT President Dr. Janis Kupersmidt co-led a workshop at the 14th annual National Mentoring Summit in Washington, DC, last [...]
Offering Comprehensive Sex Education with Media Aware – High School
February 07, 2024, Durham, NC – To address the need for comprehensive sex education for adolescents in the United States, iRT developed Media Aware – [...]
iRT to Present at the 2024 National Mentoring Summit
January 19, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT Research Scientists Drs. Janis Kupersmidt and Katie Stump will present at the 2024 meeting of the annual National [...]
iRT Welcomes New Research Intern
January 19, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to welcome Abbey Collins to its team of skilled, world-renowned researchers and creative professionals. Collins joined [...]
Filling the Gaps in High School Sex Education in the United States
January 18, 2024, Durham, NC – Providing high-quality, comprehensive sex education to high school students is an important part of supporting healthy sexual development and [...]
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