Use the Drugged Driving Essentials Training to Learn About and Prevent Drug-Impaired Driving
December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – Many drivers are aware of the dangers of and steps to prevent alcohol-impaired driving due to [...]
Online Training to Help Prevention Professionals Plan Drugged Driving Intervention Strategies
December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – Prevention professionals have vital responsibilities to plan and implement interventions to combat the risks of impaired [...]
Plan My Ride Receives a LearnX Award for Best Accessibility
December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that it received the 2023 Diamond Award from LearnX® for Best [...]
iRT Researchers Lead a Session on Substance Misuse for Youth at the Teaming with Teens Event
May 22, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT Research Scientists Drs. Alison Parker, Allison Schmidt, and Rebecca Stelter presented at [...]
iRT Releases New Plan My Ride Base Package with Innocorp, ltd.
May 10, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT has released a new Base Package of Plan My Ride, currently being sold [...]
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 [...]
University of Denver Utilizes iRT’s Video Development Expertise for Their Upcoming Research
May 08, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is excited to announce that we are collaborating with the University of Denver to support their research [...]
Use the Drugged Driving Essentials Training to Learn About and Prevent Drug-Impaired Driving
December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – Many drivers are aware of the dangers of and steps to prevent [...]
Online Training to Help Prevention Professionals Plan Drugged Driving Intervention Strategies
December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – Prevention professionals have vital responsibilities to plan and implement interventions to combat [...]
Plan My Ride Receives a LearnX Award for Best Accessibility
December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that it received the 2023 Diamond Award [...]
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...