This year’s recipient of the Joseph Becker Research Award is Christopher DeCou, an Adult Track resident in the Psychology Internship Program. The award stimulates quality research by rewarding a psychology resident for independence, creativity and intellectual depth in a research effort. Christopher’s research broadly examines the potential mediators of the association between sexual assault severity, PTSD symptoms, and components of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide, and may offer insight concerning effective targets for therapeutic intervention and prevention of suicidal behavior.