Lab News

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 lab grad student, James Rae, leads paper accepted at psychological science about gender nonconformity in childhood. Other lab co-authors include Selin Gulgoz, Lily Durwood, Madeleine Demeules, Riley Lowe, and Kristina Olson. read a summary from Ed Yong at https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/young-trans-children-know-who-they-are/580366/
Former postdoc, Allison Skinner, accepts job to be an assistant professor at the University of Georgia

Lab affiliate, Jin Goh, receives and accepts offer to be an assistant professor at Colby College.

Daniel Alonso was awarded an SPSP Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award for the 2019 SPSP Convention
Kristina wins the MacArthur Foundation award.

Graduate student Annie Fast successfully defends her dissertation and moves to Bellingham for her new faculty position at Western Washington University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
PI, Kristina Olson, publishes piece in Scientific American.
Graduate student, Elizabeth Ake, passed her general exam.

Former postdoc Sara Haga's paper on belief revision accepted at Developmental Psychology.
Graduate student James Rae's paper on implicit social cognition in children accepted at Developmental Psychology.
Graduate student, Annie Fast's paper on intellectual property accepted at Plos One.

Selin Gulgoz wins a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Graduate student Elizabeth Ake's paper on gender stereotyping in transgender children accepted at Developmental Science.
Lab receives grant from Satterberg Foundation.
Lab receives replicability grant from the National Science Foundation.
Kristina becomes Associate Chair of Psychology for Graduate Studies.

Graduate student Annie Fast receives Department Distinguished Teaching Award and University Dissertation Fellowship.
Graduate students Annie and Ari both receive the Department Distinguished Service Award.
Gabriella completes her honors thesis.

Lily's work on mental health in transgender children accepted in JAACAP.
Allison's work on the origins of social bias was accepted in Psychological Science.