Post-doc Natalie Wittlin and graduate student Benny deMayo are recipients of mentorship awards for their work with thesis students Akhila and Zoë April 2024
April 2024
Lab welcomes part time data scientist, MJ Heise, to the lab
February 2024
Lab welcomes postdoc, Rachel Leshin, to the lab
2023
August 2023
Lab welcomes new graduate student, Aditi Kodipady, to the lab
July 2023
Graduate student Benny deMayo is a recipient of the Program in Cognitive Science Fellowship at Princeton University.
June 2023
New lab manager Grey Raber joins the lab.
February 2023
Graduate student Stats Atwood is a recipient of Princeton University's Marion J. Levy, Jr. Fellowship award.
2022
September 2022
Postdoc Natalie Wittlin’s paper on mental health in gender-diverse youth was accepted in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.
July 2022
Postdoc Natalie Wittlin is awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship.
June 2022
New lab manager Courteney Parry joins the lab.
New lab manager Chase Garvey joins the lab.
New lab manager Tori Varlack joins the lab.
April 2022
Graduate students Stats Atwood and Benny deMayo, post-docs Natalie Wittlin and Ashley Jordan, and lab managers Rachel Horton and Shira Kahn-Samuelson present posters at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Madison WI.
Postdoc Ashley Jordan and graduate student Benny deMayo's paper on gender development in gender-diverse children was accepted in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.
Graduate student Benny deMayo is selected as an awardee in the 2022 NSF graduate research fellowship program.
January 2022
Postdoc Ashley Jordan is awarded the Anna Julia Cooper Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Post doc Ashley Jordan accepts a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
2021
December 2021
Graduate student Stats Atwood is awarded a fellowship at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies.
Former graduate student Adriana Germano accepts a faculty position at Yale School of Management.
July 2021
New postdoc Natalie Gallagher joins the lab.
New postdoc Natalie Wittlin joins the lab.
June 2021
Graduate student Lily Durwood successfully defends her dissertation.
Graduate student Adriana Germano successfully defends her dissertation.
March 2021
Former lab manager and current affiliated graduate student Daniel Alonso is selected as an awardee in the 2021 NSF graduate research fellowship program for his project "Concealment, Preferred Identification, and Collective Action Among Transgender Adults."
February 2021
Graduate student Lily Durwood and former visiting graduate student Léïla Eisner paper, "Social Support and Internalizing Psychopathology in Transgender Youth" is published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
2020
December 2020
The lab welcomes new part-time data scientist, Robin Sifre.
Former lab postdoc, Anna Newheiser, is awarded tenure at University at Albany-SUNY.
The lab welcomes new graduate student, Benny DeMayo, to the lab.
New post doc, Ashley Jordan joins the lab.
The lab moved from UW to Princeton University.
July 2020
Shira Kahn-Samuelson joins the lab as a new lab manager.
May 2020
Liz Abel completed her honors thesis and presented at the Mary Gates Research festival.
April 2020
Daniel (lab manager) was awarded Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
Daniel (lab manager) will be starting grad school this upcoming fall as a PhD student in the Applied Developmental Program at Fordham University and was awarded Fordham's Richard and Eileen Bennett Distinguished Fellowship.
January 2020
Tabea Hässler's (post-doc) paper, "A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change" is published in Nature Human Behavior.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0815-z
Former postdoc, Jennifer Rubin, accepts job as researcher at Foundry10.
2019
December 2019
Jessica Glazier (grad student) is accepted to the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) summer school 2020 at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Jen Rubin (postdoc) and Stats Atwood (grad student) have a paper accepted at Trends in Cognitive Science. This is Stat's first first-author paper.
Jessica Glazier (grad student), has first first-author paper accepted at Child Development. The paper explores gender encoding in transgender and cisgender preschoolers.
November 2019
Honors student, Liz Abel, wins her second Mary Gates fellowship.
August 2019
Former postdoc, Allison Skinner's, paper on children's acquisition of social bias, is accepted for publication at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Grad student Elizabeth Enright successfully defends her PhD.
July 2019
New postdoc and lab data scientist, Dominic Gibson, joins the lab.
June 2019
The lab welcomes 3 new summer diversity science interns - Silvia Navarro Hernandez, Annelise Loveless, and Riley Marshall.
Rachel Horton joins the lab as the head of the lab.
May 2019
Grad student, Elizabeth Enright, won 4 awards at the grad student award ceremony including the grad student teaching award, a research fellowship, and two service awards.
Tabea Haessler joined the lab as a visiting student for 8 months.
Paper exploring family discussions of social transitions is accepted for publication at Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology with co-authors Charlie Blotner, Daniel Alonso, Kayla Lewis, Deja Edwards, and Lily Durwood.
April 2019
Stats Atwood has decided to join the lab in summer 2019 as a new grad student, and they won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jen Rubin has been awarded an NIH Diversity Supplement that will fund her two-year postdoc.
March 2019
Elizabeth Enright received a postdoc offer and will be headed to the University of Illinois this fall.
Kayla Lewis will be headed to UW-Milwaukee this fall for a program in counseling psychology.
Jessica Glazier, Selin Gulgoz, and Elizabeth Enright presented their work at SRCD.
February 2019
Elizabeth Enright wins the Earl (Buz) & Mary Lois Hunt Endowed Fellowship.
Lab members Jessica Glazier, Eric Gomez, and Daniel Alonso present work from the lab at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Portland.
Former postdoc, Allison Skinner, accepts job to be an assistant professor at the University of Georgia.
November 2018
Lab affiliate, Jin Goh, receives and accepts offer to be an assistant professor at Colby College.
October 2018
Daniel Alonso was awarded an SPSP Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award for the 2019 SPSP Convention.
Kristina wins the MacArthur Foundation award.
September 2018
The lab welcomes new graduate student, Bryn Bandt-Law.
August 2018
Graduate student Annie Fast successfully defends her dissertation and moves to Bellingham for her new faculty position at Western Washington University.
July 2018
Current postdoc, Selin Gulgoz, current student, Eric Gomez, and former lab manager, Maddy DeMeules' paper on attitudes toward trans kids was accepted at the Journal of Cognition and Development.
Former postdoc, Sara Haga's, paper on the bias blindspot in children was accepted at Social Cognition.
June 2018
Graduate student Arianne Eason successfully defends her dissertation and heads off to her postdoc at Washington University in St Louis, deferring her faculty position at UC-Berkeley until 2019.
Honors student, Sanjana Ravi wins the Guthrie Prize for best undergraduate empirical research. She and fellow honors student, Bella Lee, graduate.
The lab welcomes new lab manager, Kayla Lewis.
April 2018
Kristina wins the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.
Graduate student Lily Durwood wins the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Bryn Bandt-Law wins the NSF graduate fellowship.
March 2018
Undergraduate honors student, Sanjana Ravi, wins the APS Travel Award and the UW Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award!
Undergrad independent project student, Deja Edwards, wins the Mary Gates Research Fellowship to support her research.
January 2018
Grad student, Anne Fast, receives and accepts assistant professor position at Western Washington University to begin in Fall 2018.
The lab receives a grant from the Arcus Foundation.
Undergraduate thesis student, Sanjana Ravi, and lab manager, Riley Lowe, had posters accepted for APS 2018.
2017
September 2017
Daniel joins the lab as a project coordinator.
Graduate Student, Jessica Glazier, joins as a new grad student.
Selin's paper reviewing our findings from TYP is accepted at Child Development Perspectives.
Lab receives a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
