Plan My Ride Program Awarded for Innovative Design, Content, and Video Components
May 08, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that the Plan My Ride program has received a 2024 Learning [...]
Teaching High School Students Research-Based Strategies to Cope with Stress and Reduce Risky Behaviors
May 08, 2024, Durham, NC – A recent meta-analysis found that adolescents are experiencing significantly higher levels of anxiety in the years [...]
iRT Researchers Discuss Sexual Health and Media Literacy Education at Fact Forward’s Adolescent Health Spring Summit
May 03, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT researchers presented at Fact Forward’s 2024 Adolescent Health Spring Summit last month to discuss how [...]
iRT Researcher Contributes to the Development of a Guide for Youth Seeking Mentoring Relationships
November 29, 2023, Durham, NC - iRT Research Scientist Dr. Rebecca Stelter joined a working group with other researchers from [...]
A Guide to Finding Evidence-Based and Research-Informed Training Programs for Mentoring
November 28, 2023, Durham, NC – Implementing high quality training is an integral step in the process of building and [...]
iRT Publishes Chapter in Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook
November 17, 2023, Durham, NC – In an increasingly digital world, youth and adults are consistently exposed to a barrage [...]
A Guide to Finding Evidence-Based Programs for Substance Use Prevention
November 17, 2023, Durham, NC – Substance misuse can have many harmful effects on the health and daily lives of [...]
iRT Supports the Southeast PTTC in Enhancing Digital Training Tools for Substance Misuse Prevention Professionals
November 18, 2025, Durham, NC – This year, iRT has been collaborating with the Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center (Southeast PTTC) to support their [...]
Plan My Ride Program Awarded for Innovative Design, Content, and Video Components
May 08, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that the Plan My Ride program has [...]
Teaching High School Students Research-Based Strategies to Cope with Stress and Reduce Risky Behaviors
May 08, 2024, Durham, NC – A recent meta-analysis found that adolescents are experiencing significantly higher levels of [...]
iRT Researchers Discuss Sexual Health and Media Literacy Education at Fact Forward’s Adolescent Health Spring Summit
May 03, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT researchers presented at Fact Forward’s 2024 Adolescent Health Spring Summit last [...]
iRT Scientists Present at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Conference
iRT scientists, Drs. Tracy Scull, Christina Dodson, and Reina Evans-Paulson, presented a symposium entitled, Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health In The Digital Age Through Media Literacy [...]
iRT Awarded Grant for Development of a Parent-Focused Media Literacy Education Program for Adolescent Substance Use Prevention
September 2021, Durham, NC - innovation Research & Training (iRT) is honored to share that it has received a grant from the National Institute on [...]
Building the Foundation for e-Mentoring Release
September 13, 2021, Durham, NC – After co-authoring “the book” on mentoring and committing themselves to empowering youth, researchers at innovation Research and Training started [...]
iRT Publishes New Research on Parent-Gender Differences in Sexual Health Communication
July 14, 2021, Durham, NC- Decades of research point to parents having a major influence on their child’s sexual health. High quality parent-child communication has [...]
Calling North Carolina Teens Who Participated in Clinical Trials
Calling NC teens who have participated in clinical trials! Share your experiences with other teens to help them learn more about the importance of research. [...]
Welcome Summer 2021 Graduate Student Interns
May 26, 2021, Durham, NC - innovation Research & Training welcomes two new graduate student interns this summer. The interns will contribute their expertise to [...]
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