September 2024: Congratulations to graduate student Grace Drake for defending her dissertation proposal.
September 2024: Congratulations to graduate student Anj Barrett for being awarded the Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark Grant from APF. The title of the project is “A Cross-Cultural Exploration of How Environment Impacts Children’s Learning and Social Preferences in Educational Contexts”. Anj will be conducting the study in her home country of Jamaica.
May 2024: Congratulations to our C&D Lab seniors Kayla Harrington and Emily Langston for graduating and successfully completing their Honors Thesis projects! Kayla is currently attending WashU Law, and Emily is pursing a Master’s in Counseling at Covenant Theological Seminary.
December 2023: Congratulations to graduate student Grace Reid for successfully defending her dissertation and graduating with her PhD from WashU in Psychological and Brain Sciences. She has accepted a post-doctorate position at Haverford College.
May 2023: Congratulations to our Research Coordinator Rachael Silberstein who will be attending Boston University in the Fall to pursue her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology.
May 2023: Congratulations to our C&D Lab senior, Angela Diaz for graduating and successfully completing her Honors Thesis project. Angela will be pursuing her Master’s in Public Health at FIU this Fall.
January 2023: Congratulations to our Research Coordinator Anj Barrett for graduating in December and being admitted into the Ph.D. program in Psychological and Brain Sciences at WashU for Fall 2023. Anj will continue her work in the Cognition and Development Lab with Dr. Markson as her mentor.
December 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Fateme Mosheni for successfully defending her master’s thesis.
May 2021: Congratulations to our C&D Lab graduates of 2021, Rachael Silberstein, Amanda Yu, and Emily Bernstein! Rachael will be remaining in the lab as Research Coordinator, Amanda will be pursuing her master’s degree at the Olin Business School, and Emily has accepted an exciting research position at Yale University.
May 2020: Congratulations to our Cognition & Development Lab graduates of 2020, Keaira Clancy and Sydney Henkels! Wishing you all the best!
May 2020: Best of luck to Shreya Sodhi and Meghana Kunam (’19) who will be moving on from the lab! Shreya will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, and Meghana will be starting medical school at Midwestern University in Arizona. Congrats!
April 2020: Congratulations to Emily Bernstein, Rachael Silberstein, and Amanda Yu for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Award! This award will fund their research over the summer as they prepare their honors theses.
October 2019: Lab members Rebecca Schwarzlose, Grace Reid, and Shreya Sodhi presented their work at the Cognitive Development Society conference in Louisville, KY (October 18-19).
October 2019: Congratulations to graduate student Grace Reid for successfully defending her master’s thesis, titled Children’s Perceptions of Status at the Intersection of Race and Gender!
June 2019: Congratulations and best of luck to Arianne Eason, post-doctoral research scholar (2018-2019), who will begin her position as an Assistant Professor this fall at the University of California, Berkeley Department of Psychology! You can find more information about her work at Berkeley here.
May 2019: Congratulations to our Cognition & Development Lab graduates of 2019, including our honors students Ariel Miller, Lizzi Williams, Monica Lu, and Shreya Sodhi! Also included in our graduating class are Lauren Dandridge, Meghana Kunam, and Priscilla Mei. Congrats!