• Congrats to Beckett and Lillian for being awarded conference travel grants from the Office for Undergraduate Research!
• Congrats all around for getting posters (Beckett, Felix, Sebnem) and a flash talk (Lillian) accepted for presentation at SAS 2025! See you in Portland!
• Congrats to Chen-Wei “Felix” Yu for passing his guided literature review titled “Interdependence and Positive Emotion Expression: A Joint Analysis of Socioecological Conditions and Discrete Emotions” with a High Pass. His committee was chaired by Claudia Haase and included Mesmin Destin, Hannes Schwandt, and Yang Qu.
• Congrats to Angela Zhong who was honored during a recent Fletcher Awards ceremony. The award, funded by the Fletcher Family Foundation, recognizes outstanding undergraduates for research conducted with support from a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant. Zhong received a special grant—the Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Undergraduate Summer Research Grant for Children and Families—for her project looking at physiological mechanisms underlying empathy in caregiver-youth interactions. Claudia Haase was awarded the Karl Rosengren Faculty Mentoring Award, which goes to the mentor of the best summer undergraduate research grant project.
• Congratulations to Chen-Wei “Felix” Yu on being awarded a “Studying Abroad Fellowship” by the Taiwan Ministry of Education!
• Congrats to the Chicago Consortium on Longevity for being featured in a story by DePaul University!
• Congrats to Matías Martinez’s for getting our study featured in a press release by Northwestern University! And congrats to Claudia on her interview on the study in WBEZ!
• Congratulations to lead author Tabea Meier and team Malena Otero, Simon Su, Jacquelyn Stephens, and Felix Yu for getting our paper “Unraveling the experience of affection across marital and friendship interactions” accepted for publication in Affective Science!
• Congratulations to Chen-Wei “Felix” Yu on being awarded a “Studying Abroad Fellowship” by the Taiwan Ministry of Education!
• Congratulations to lead author Tabea Meier and team Malena Otero, Simon Su, Jacquelyn Stephens, and Felix Yu for getting our paper “Unraveling the experience of affection across marital and friendship interactions” accepted for publication in Affective Science!
• Congratulations to Matías Martinez and team for getting our paper “Depressive symptoms during the transition to adolescence: Left hippocampal volume as a marker of social context sensitivity” accepted for publication in PNAS!