iRT Researchers Present Findings from iRT’s Sexual Health and Media Literacy Education Research
December 19, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT Research Scientists Drs. Christina Dodson and Reina Evans-Paulson presented at The Society for the Scientific [...]
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 the National [...]
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 maintaining a [...]
iRT Expands Its Team of Professionals
April 24, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce the addition of Ellen Frost, Yulee Leon, Elizabeth Porter, [...]
iRT President to Present at the National Institute of Justice National Research Conference
April 24, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT President and Senior Research Scientist Dr. Janis Kupersmidt will be presenting at the [...]
iRT to Create New Mentor Training Course for STEM Mentoring Programs
April 03, 2023, Durham, NC – There are fewer and fewer youth pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and math [...]
iRT Publishes Research on Mentoring Program Practices to Support Children of Incarcerated Caregivers
April 03, 2023, Durham, NC – As rates of incarceration in the United States have steadily climbed for the past [...]
iRT to Evaluate the Impact of Training Mentors on Youth Impacted by Substance Misuse
February 21, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is excited to announce that it has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate [...]
iRT Researchers Present Findings from iRT’s Sexual Health and Media Literacy Education Research
December 19, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT Research Scientists Drs. Christina Dodson and Reina Evans-Paulson presented at The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Innovation Research & Training Receives Funding From NICHD to Help Parents Have “The Talk” With Their Young Teens
Dr. Tracy Scull at Innovation Research & Training (IRT) was recently awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will fund the continued development of an interactive program for parents called Media Aware Parent. The goal...
Innovation Research & Training receives funding from NHLBI To Develop A Web-Based Resource about Participating in Pediatric Clinical Trials Designed for Youth
Dr. Alison Parker and Dr. Tracy Scull (Co-Principal Investigators) at Innovation Research & Training (IRT) were recently awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to develop an interactive, web application for youth, called DigiKnowit News, with the goal of increasing the rates of youth participation in...
Innovation Research & Training Awarded Grant To Develop A Web-Based Program to Promote Sexual Health in Teens
innovation Research & Training (iRT), a behavioral sciences research company, today announced its receipt of a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). iRT researchers will use the grant to develop the Media Aware program, a web-based course for high school students designed to...
Providing Pre-Match Training to Mentees Leads to More Realistic Expectations
Mentoring programs understand that effectively training their mentors before they enter into a mentoring relationship is vital to producing positive outcomes for both the mentee and their mentoring relationship. Pre-match mentor training helps to establish higher quality and more enduring matches. However, mentoring programs might be overlooking an important opportunity to prevent possible...
How does someone decide to be aggressive? Findings reported at SRCD special topics conference from two studies on new multimedia, Web-based assessment software.
Drs. Janis Kupersmidt Rebecca Stelter, and Alison Parker from innovation Research & Training (iRT), presented a poster entitled, “SIP-AP: Web-based Assessment of Social information Processing in Children and Adolescents,” at the Society for Research in Child Development Special Topic Meeting: Technology and Media in Children’s Development on October 29, 2016...
Two IRT Scientists Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Special Topic Meeting in Irvine, California
Durham, NC (October 28, 2016) - Drs. Rebecca Stelter and Janis Kupersmidt presented a poster, entitled “Addressing the Connectivity Challenge in Data Collection with Children and Families,” at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Special Topic Meeting: Technology and Media in Children’s Development in Irvine, California on October 28, 2016. The conference...