News

  • Welcome everyone back for fall quarter 2024! Homemade Life-Span Development Lab chocolate chip cookies by Beckett and Sophia 🙂
  • 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 MatĂ­as 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 MatĂ­as 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!
  • Congrats to Lillian Fu who was awarded “best presentation” in her panel at Northwestern’s Undergraduate Research Expo for her talk “Acceptance Takes Practice: Emotional Acceptance and Parasympathetic Activation in Older Adults.”
  • Claudia Haase was awarded “SESP outstanding professor” for the year of 2024!
  • Claudia Haase was awarded the 19th annual Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award. Congrats!
  • Claudia Haase received a Northwestern Buffett Global Collaboration Grant to work with Tabea Meier (University of Zurich) and Yang Qu (Northwestern University) on a project entitled “Other-Oriented Positive Emotions and Social Connection across North America, Europe, and Asia.”
  • Many thanks to Sharon Li and her team for co-organizing the Chicago Consortium on Longevity Inaugural Summit on May 10, 2024! You can learn more about the Consortium and the Summit here. We are grateful for support from the Russell & Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust, DePaul University, Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy, and Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research.
  • Congrats to Angela Zhong, Lillian Fu, and Lily Hoyt for being awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Grants! Angela and Lily received a special honor for their project. Angela received the Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Undergraduate Summer Research Grant for Children and Families. Lily received the inaugural Office for Undergraduate Research Alumni Summer Undergraduate Research Grant.