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Chris DeCou, an undergraduate student of Monica Skewes, was awarded the Jens Peder Hart Hansen Fellow at the recent International Congress of Circumpolar Health.

He was recognized for his poster presentation, “Traditional Living and Subsistence As Protective Factors Against Suicide: Perceptions of Alaska Native University Students From Rural Alaska.” The presentation was the result of a study that looked at what students said about how suicide affected their lives, and was funded by Alaska EPSCoR. DeCou concluded that traditional and subsistence lifestyles continue to be included in intervention and prevention suicide programs.

DeCou’s abstract was selected by blind peer review and he received $500. DeCou recently graduated with a B.A. in psychology from UAF and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Idaho State University.