Current Graduate Students

Caroline came to Purdue after completing a post-baccelaureate  Research Assistant position at Brown University and the Rhode Island Hospital. Prior to that, she graduated from Furman University in 2017. She is currently on internship at McLean Hospital and will transition into a faculty role at Transylvania College in the fall of 2026!

Caroline research focuses primarily on the implementation of evidence-based measurement and diagnosis pratices into clinical practice. This includes an interest in moving dimensional models of psychopathology, such as HiTOP into clinical settings. 

Caroline has published over 20 empirical papers and received a number of awards and fellowships for her reserach. 

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Twitter/X: @CaroBalling

Ronnie returned to Purdue as a graduate student after completing his undergradate degree in Psychology in 2018. In the interim he worked as a front-line mental health care worker in the Indianapolis area. 

Ronnie's long term career interests are in the accurate measurement and diagnosis of mental health clinicians. Some of this work has used statistical techniques to examine measurement equivalence aross demographic groups. He has also done work examining possible raicial bias in clinical diagnosis. 

Media Feature: Hill Tackles Personality Assessment Research 

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Lindsey arrives to Purdue after completing her undergradate degree in Psychology from DePauw University in the spring of 2025. 

Lindsey's research interests focus on exploring personality and its link with psychopathology. She is particularly interested in understanding how temporal perspectives may relate to the differences in the control and regulation of behavior.  Her initial work at Purdue has focused specifically on the valid assessment of traits associated with the overcontrol of behaviors and emotions.