2016-04-13: Congrats to Jacquelyn Stephens who has been admitted to the HDSP Ph.D. program and will join our lab!
Congrats to Kat, Katie, and Nathan who have been awarded Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grants to work with us this summer!
Congrats to Deborah Wu who has been admitted to the Psychology Ph.D. program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst!
Congrats to Nathan Moxon who has been admitted (early) to medical school at Feinberg Medical School at Northwestern University!
Congrats to Sophia Magro who has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship!
Congrats to Ryan Svoboda for presenting his research on parental education, STEM motivation and STEM course taking; to Deborah Wu and Katherine Bae for presenting their research on emotional coherence and well-being; and to Katie Rim for presenting her research on autonomic activation and anxiety at APS 2016 in Chicago.
Congrats to Sophia Magro will be presenting her research on personality and emotional reactivity at SAS and MPA!
2016-02-18: Congrats to Deborah Wu, Kat Bae, and Katie Rim for having their posters accepted for presentation at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science on May 26-29, 2016, in Chicago!
2015-08-28: Congrats, Ryan Svoboda, on “being selected as one of the distinguished speakers in the symposium ‘When institutions are barriers: How Institutional bias and contextual cues shape success among stigmatized groups’ at the 2016 SPSP Annual Convention in San Diego, California, January 28-20, 2016.”
2015-04-24: Check out media coverage on our research on age, trust, and well-being in ABC Chicago, CBS, CNN, Huffington Post, Pacific Standard, PBS News Hour, Psych Central, TIME, and U.S. News & World Report.
2015-03-11: Check out the blog posts from the Life-Span Development Journal Club! Thanks to Sita Kannan, Deborah Wu, and Kat Bae for contributing.
2015-02-23: Congrats, Martina Reitmeier, Ryan Svoboda, and Sara Thomas for having their posters accepted for presentation at the 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, May 21-24, 2015, in New York City.
2014-10-18: Welcome, Sara Thomas and Emily Bastarache! Sara is joining the Human Development and Social Policy doctoral program with a B.A. in sociology from Grinnell University and an M.Ed. in education from Harvard University. Emily is joining the Personality and Health doctoral program at the Department of Psychology (advisor: Dan Mroczek) with a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University. We look forward to working with Sara and Emily!